Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.

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You will meet and become acquainted
with some pleasant and some peculiar peo-
pie during a trans-C Continental trip. You will
also be thrown in contact with modes OF
living. methods of business. customs, ideas,
novelties markedly different from those at
home. A railway coach is very small
world in which to pass a half dozen long
days, and the weak and deep spots of the
company are soon the property Of all.
On my coach from st. Paul westward over
the Northern Pacific was q jolly spiritual
adviser booked for North Dakota, giant
who took every occasion possible to display
his agility in lightning changes of attire, a
missionary from Malta, a lawyer who had
turned miner, doctor ditto, a Montana
judge, railroad attorney, an irrigation e1-
pert whose 40 mile ditch is by this time con-
nected, and some gentlemen of1eisure. OF
course there were ladies and babies-but
they never invaded the smoker.
SUCH q mixed car lot furnished plenty of
entertainment in the line of ,-:;As on the
subjects closest to their individual inter
ests.
The lawyer-miner after feeling his wa,
talked about minerals and talked entertain
ingly, too. Summarized, his views ran: 81
legitimate and paying calling, provided i5 is
conducted on business principles. 1t is a
fascinating study. too. You can delve in the
rocky tome for years and finally conclude
you have mastered its mysteries, when 10! q
leaf is turned that completely upsets former
conclusions and leaves you foundering and
groping-leaves you convinced that false
lead has been followed, that new brain
tunnel must be run to strike the lost pay
streak. Yes, mining is u business just like q
drygoods store. II you are ratient and care
full you can take stock and calculate to a
nicely your profits. 1t used to be the saying
that only the stock raiser made money while
he slept. The careful miner has the best of
the srockman in this. however. But be-
ware of prospects, my boy. A good
prospect is all right if properly developed;
but prospect is not a mine by long shot.
There's lots of mineral in Montana, Colo
rado, Idaho and Utah. but those who are to
profit by its extraction must first uncover it
systematically and judiciously. Yes. mining
pays, but silver is too low now for the risks
involved. Beware of snowy prospects and
''bull'' quartz. my boy. Develop by shaft
and cross-cut on the vein, analyze, compute,
be patient, and, all else being equal, you're a
sure winner"
The doctor.miner corroborated - the
bonanza seeker. cogitated.
"BUT, gentlemen," ch1med In the 4O-mile
ditcher, there's good quick money in irrf-
CATION out here. Wait till you see the
Yakima Valley, Washington. There's a
Paradise reclaimed from the sage brush and
the sand. Put water anywhere on this
desert and it will be as Garden of Eden.
After the water is on go into hops. say.
Then you can make money while you sleep,
fnn I'm fn in
season. But irrigation, like mining, has
been hurt by unscientific and inscriptions
methods. Time though, will demonstrate
that it is legitimate proposition, sure
money getter and blessing. But beware oj
the glitterins prospectus and the badly en-
gineered district. For you'll surely miss
your money when the ditch runs dry"
"VESTIBULE trains and diners on cross
country lines are a delusion and a purga-
tory,' exclaimed the fat Montana jurist
when the irrigationist paused. "In the good
old days, you know, the air of the hills was
permitted to blow through the coaches.
Now the trains are like tunnels without ali
shafts, and the puffs that come through the
windows are unsatisfactory and cinder.
laden. The vestibule train is all very nice
in cold weather, but now it's out oil
place. And the dining car, too, is step
backward in long distance railroading. Why
we'll be lucky if we get Is minutes to stretch
our legs at any stopping place between here
and the Pacific; and that, you know, is not
at all conducive to comfort or well regu
lated system. Yes, sir, the old brea kfast,
dinner and supper stations, with ther rosy
checked, calicoed attendants, steaming
yictuals and monotony-breaking clatter,
were good things for travellers from q pnrely
physical standpoint. I'll bet you bit that
you'll all agree with me before the taste Of
the canned goods leaves your paiates."
At the last station on the line all voted
the Judge a winner.
GIVE a cheap and safe remedy for small
pox," said the doctor-mtner. "My father
was physician before me, and he used it
successfully. It's sure, too, in cholera and
yellow fever. Now guess it, gentlemen.
It's simple article-ohe you've all used
from childhood. No. you can't? Well, sirs,
its salt-common, plain, everyday salt. Salt
you know preserves, prevents putrefaction
The diseases we most fear, according to
eminent medical authorities, are due to
putrefaction in our system. Here's where
the salt works like charm. Now, don't smile
but try it. If you take two teaspoon fuls
of salt in a glass of water say three times q
day you'll not have to be vaccinated during
smallpox epidemic, Stunned during a
cholera scare or nursed during yellow
fever plague. Put a little vinegar in the
glass to make the dose palatable and keep it
up q. a.week or so. Salt Is preserver of life,
gentlemen, and ifyou are ever in position
to test its efficacy you'll remember this
trip and conversation"
The doubters in the smoker looked skepti-
cal, but the earnestness of the medical
mineralogist gave weight to his remarkably
simple remedy.
THUS was q day and night spent in a
coach Slopeward. Thus, mayhap, will other
days and nights be spent by you and your
neiphbors There's profit in such dayS and