Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-03-14
MINES am MINING.
How to Win and How Not ca Win
Some Coed SnK~cstions.
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Some investors seem To regard
mining as some kind Of a grabbing
affair, and that all they have 10 do
is to own a mine and then lay back
and imagine huge dividends with
out further effort.
They rush in like mad bull at
hay stack" and then below be-
cause they failed to destroy the
stack.
Experience, good management
and pluck is what wins in mining
as in any other business.
If you wish success don't stand
in by paying princely fees to some
geological gogle-eyed expert" fresh
from some Eastern chemical labra-
.ory; if you do, this will be first
step towards failure.
There are honest men of prac-
teal experience in every district,
who will be glad to aid you 10 win
if you will take a little time to hunt
them up. Human nature in min
ing camp is on par with that
found elsewhere, no better nor worse.
Sometimes in making large sales
Eastern purchasers will insist upon
having a report of some Professor
to consumate sale because he is n
learned geolist, but these men know
as little about the value or charac-
teristics of the mine or district they
are to examine as | know about the
inside workings of Wall street.
Miners regard these men only
as necessary appendage, like the
tail of kite, simply an aid to float
the scheme.
When an old miner sees one of
these fellows coming up the hill
wearing goggles and his hair parted
in the middle, he smiles all over,
knowing that he knows as little
about the mine ms dry-goods clerk
does about driving hogs.
1t has always been a mystery to
me why it is that if these learned
biologists knew where rich ore bod
les existed, they did not expose
them and become a Jay Gould ut
once. But the fact is, some old
prospector who has perhaps not
seen a book for ten years comes
along with a pick and a good eye
for float, who always finds mines.
After this is done and dozen mines
developed some professor" comes
along end tells us all about it.
Natural intelligence, pluck, a
good pair of lungs, couple OF
Jacks" loaded with flower and ba-
con, a pick and shovel, with knowl-
edge born of experience, makes
about the right kind of Rocky
Mountain expert.
When you have secured mine
or prospect, don't send back East
after all your relatives, down to tho
remotest barn-yard cousin, to run q
mine. you do you will fail-ther
you will curse mines and miners
and wonder why you did not sue.
coed.
No one would think of placing q
farm hand ut the head of dry.
goods house and expect success
simply because he was a thirc
cousin--and yet this method hai
been carried out by Eastern min,
managers time and again.
There are men to-day at the head
of mines in this section who dom
know any more about a mine thar
a long-earned jack-rabbit.
Remember that the most valua
BILE and reliable mining report is tn,
result of a varied mining experience
and an intuitive aptitude for ob
tanning information from many
sources relative to the nature of or,
bodies that belong to each partieu
lar mine or district. There is :
knowledge that experience alon,
can give, and which can not be ac
quired in schools nor from books.
Don't spend a lot of money il
building fine roads and costly houses
until you know whether you have ,
mine or not. Put up with few
disadvantages at first aud spenC
most of the labor in actual develop
ment. A mine grows slow like am
other business. A good mine is no
made in a day. First trail an,
windlass, then within or small
hoist, then by the time these eeas'