The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-04-16
SUCCESS IN LIFE.
Opportunities For the Young Mon
of To-Day.
The Proper Course to Pursue II iheS
Would Succeed in Business Inc
Growth of Large Concerns from
Small beginnings

Growth of Large Concerns HoA
Small beginnings.
several OF the most famou sworkshops, |
i is and factories of the world and |
some of the largest stores had their be-
Ginning in small way, when their
owners had scarcely any capital other
than skill. industry and probity. Little
by little money was gathered for an
extension of the works, the gains be-
camc larger, more money could be IN
vested TO cheaper processes or extend
trade, relations of business value were
established, and so the business kept
on expanding until acres of buildings
took the place of one small shop, ano
The income began to be counted by
millions instead of hundreds. There
are many great establishments of which
his Is a general outline history, some
li,les varied by an opportune invention
" circumstance helping to a more rapid
..rowth. But when a young man Is
,Aown one of these big workshops, with
thousands of employees and every labor
.avng device, he is very likely to say
tHat there are no such opportunities now
as, once existed to thus build up great
business from almost nothing; that the
age of machinery has come, and that
one can not hope to compete with es-
N,bti4hed factories except by the use OF
I; i,trre capital at the very | ginning.
here is u~ii5tle truth in this, because
one could hardly expect to succeed in
building locomotives for example, by
hand work in competition with estab-
i.>hed works using machine tools; but
il is altogether overshadowed by the
Larger truth that now, as heretofore,
ti,rre is room at the top for the young
mani of prohity, industry, zeal and intel
ii!ecncc. Capital can be obtained when
The proper time comes by the man who
has these qualities, and great enter
prises be established by those who start
in life at the bottom round of the lad
der
Thirty years ago, says the Baltimore
sun, the same objection was made with
apparently the same force, yet within
these thirty years instances can be
found of poor boys rising to become the
great merchants and manufacturers OF
the country. If they had considered
,f,,, tho nnnor,rnitias m rise had nassed
..,,.,, Nth tba frst half of the century,
they might have remained behind the
counter or at the -bench but they
,. in1ustriau. faithful slillful. and
.,L,y. all self-confdent and determined
10 succeed, and opportunities came to
them as they may come to any boy OF
hi,osalf IN to,,c o1v,n+aro If n chanre
l., ,ho ,;ao ~ fnrt,,pa One of tho IA.
,no,,s osonyors az tho countrv started in
,n,,l1 ,,o,- o,.troctinr tho pold
and ai1,or from the sweeninps of iewelry
,n,n,,f,ctorirs IT, REQUIRED some wears
az honoot da,lipp hefore he could firmly
astolli.b rnnntation for nrobitv and
skill that bronght him large consign
mopts Then his little laboratory be
,r,n to prow he invented now processe
tnhnln Rim in his work, his rood nam,
,,ac,,n, l,nnu,n in distant States. and TO
ward the close of his life more gold ant
liver nassed through his ASSAY Office
in a wear than through the United
states mint at Philadelphia. His grea
III
lnoulrdpo and skin. in mart to his in
d1stry, but also in large part to his hig
charactar. Strangers consigned to hi
ASSAY office thousands of dollars wort
of ore. No one save the assayer coul
saw how much silver and gold he e1
tracted therefrom, but men learned t
trust him and on the strength of his reI
utation millions of dollars worth of ma
terial we're intr,lsted to him as to Go,
crnment mint. Can the young man
to-day repeat that history? Possibly NJ
in that particular line of work. But tn
same qualities may be depended upo
to bear similar fruit in any business III
dertaking. The impatience of youn
men IL often bar to their success
They want to make money rapidly an
establish great house of some kind i
a few wears, There are exceptional eli
cumstances under which this may /
done. but the general rule is that seve
al wears are required to fully establish
business reputation that can command
large trade.
Quite recently in one of the lara
citias a, old mercantile firm that ha
haen established for over half n cen
urv and was at one time at the head ,
ali the Wholesale establishments, W;
boupht out-stock. rood will and fix
uras-hv a vouug man who had start,
n small store when this firm was at IL
height ,f it's mower and business inf
once He did NOT dream aft that time
comno,inr with his rroot nciphbor T