Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-01-14
uNDEyEl.0rED MINING CLAIMS.

In recent issue Of the Mining and
Scientific Press we took occasion TO >
urge upon owners Of claims to aban >
don the idea that at no distant day the I
long expected purchaser would be !
found To invest his money in prop
erty upon which only assessment work
had been done, showing mere suspect
holes. The day has passed when the
tenderfoot aud inexperienced custom
er, In his anxiety to own mine, could
be persuaded 20 buy an undevcloped
clam. They have grown wiser by ex'
perience. The probabilities are that
il devoted to the object OF development
would have resulted in determining the |
value OF their claims and very likely
have opened up "A valuable property II
it proved otherwise, the sooner that
fact was known the better.
. When the owner Of claim shows
a no disposition to work il, there is a
] suggestion Of lack of faith on his own
: part, and this is calulated to impress a
b would be purchaser with a suspicion
y Of its merits.
IS To any person travelling through
h the mining districts the fact is lamen-
r. tably evident that the old-time miner
d is degenera.ing into n nonproducer
ot has lost his energies and wastes his
lie time sitting around doing nothing,
h. waiting for something To turn up
d. while he neglects his claim on the
v. hillside, aud while he knows thrt he
ez could make couple of dollars or mor'
,ir n day by washing the gravel of neaI
re- by creek. But he will not come Il
m "Chinamau's wages" rs he contempt
ill uously calls il,
he The energetic spirit of the early da
mi seems to have faded out, with the r.
of duction of earnings and rich placers
yer but the recollection Of those days whe
mt miners made their one or two ounce
ans day is still vivid in the memorsies c
IL cold timers" and they find it hard
ass come down to current wages, forge
,m- ting the decreased cost OF liv ng. 5
e many Of them, because they can /
The longer earn their SIS To $40 ds
the compromis by earning nothing.
a SO is true much OF the placer ground h
been pretty we'll worked over, and I
pay is greatly lessened, but each "
amt after the wash from heavy rains m'
10 or less gold is washed down from
ON banks. This is left to Cinnamon
the work, and many dollar ia earned
Pra- these patient lsborers in claims VIII
inc white men might work il 80 minded
d o' II is an exceptional country wh'
sol any man can earn by his own lal
pose his 80 or SO day in mining wi
men other resources fail, and he has
the quartz claim to work with prosp
ress' of seeing it some day develop int
were valuable mine. He should bear
eve mind that all mines now returning
com munerative profits to their own
" an were once mere prospects, and We
hout have so renamed had not the own
from developed them to point to pr
'oleu their value. There are probably
ring many good miners or what we
bout prove so by labor awaiting deve
iti"n meat as have yet been found.
e oil IL is one OF peculiar Characters
lhree of the miner that he would rat
part work for some other man at 81 or
II oil day than work for himself with p
iered pect OF much higher earnings.
than con- plant Of dull times in MINING
nder 10 some extent the result Of the re
.hat atoms of effort on the part oil
also miner. He has grown indolent
d TO INDECENT, and contents himself '
those earning few dollars to win his d
the grub" and wastes his time tina
rlher should employ in working his cl
claih sitting in the shade and telling sto
q the of the money he made in AZ and
s'eau and waiting for socle greenhorn
en-! come along and buy his undevei'
re are claim. and this man never ccl
TINS There is always good demand
cious such properties as promise remun
Con- ton for the capital invested. and
VIII conn lsint that mines do not Sc
RUE simply the result of the scarcity OF
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but it The g. r. Call and the BULL