Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-01-28
SUCCESS IN LIFE.
Opportunities For the Young Men
OF To-Day.

Several of tho most mousworkshops,
r.ils and factories OF the world and
some of the largest stores had tbeir be-
ginning in small way, when their
owners had scarcely any capital other
thanskill, industry and probity. Littlc
by littlo money was gathered for an
extension of the works, the gains be-
came larger, more mOLcy could To in
vested TO cheaper processes or extend
trade, relations Of business raluo wcrc
established, and so tho business kept
OK expanding until acres Of buildings
tool; tho place Of one small shop, and
thc income began to be counted by
millions instead of hundreds. There
arc many great establishments of which
this Is Il general outline history, somo-
times varied by an opportunc invention
Oh circumstance helping to a moro rapid
growth. But when young man il
shown ono of these big workshops, with
thousands Of employees and every labor
saving Device, he is very likely to say
that there arc nosnch opportunities now
Us once existed to thus build up great
business from almost nothing; that tho
age OF machinery has come, and that
one can not hope to compete with es-
tuJliShcd factories except by the use Of
large capital ut the very begi ing.
There is Il little truth in this, bcca $50
one could hardly expect to succeed in
buildin. locomotives, for example, by
hand-work in competition with cstab-
lishcd works using machine tools; but
it is altogether ovcrshadowcd by the
farger truth that now, as heretofore,
there is room at the top for tho young
man OF prObity, industry, zeal and intel
1iTcpcc. Capital can be obtained when
tho proper time comes by the man who
has these qualities, and great enter
prisCs be established by those who start
in lfc OF the bottom round Of tho lad
dor
Quito recently in one of tho largo
cities a1 OLD mercantile firm that had
boon established for over half q cent
ury, and Was ut one time at tho head of
nj the Wholesale establishments, was
bought Out-StOck, good will and fiXt-
urcS-by Il young man who had started
II GrIall store when this firm was at tho
height OF its powcr and business influ-
once. lie did not dream at that time of
competing with his great nciGhbOr. lie
was content to do the small trade that
fell to his lot, he attended strictly To
business ;.I:l cXcrtcd himself to please
his customers. Slowly but steadily his
business expanded. Before nany years
JIG became IL rival Of tho older firm, and
then The unexpected though natural
thipr happened Tue younger man wa3
more CntcrtrisiBG and energetic than
bis ncigEbor who, firing OF tho struggle
alter accommodating a large fortune, re-
lirCl from the iicla. In tho buJinc33
world rs in nature there is the period OF
growth and decay. E:2at business
houses may havo fresh Ilood infused
into them and descending from father
~ son may go Oh growing beyond the
]ifctimC OF their founder; corporations
give Il still niger time to tho period OF
growth. but decay comes to al OF them
and younger enterprises displaCG them.
Even the corporations slough OF such
long life Sui;,ir from tho competition Of
Young rivals that enter tho field with now
appliances, fresh ideas and tho NiTcr
and zeal Of youth. Because tho field
seems TO DC occupied Is no reason why
way 10 despair or lOSn in tho sliTh test
degree confidence in his own power -
succeed. Eut he must LOOK forward
the |CcCSsity Of toiliSG for IL timo -
earn tho good reputation which, com
hin"d with skill and industry, shall
Eivo him high place among his follow
mon.