The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-04-07

sIue pl lne moon. DuE nGnk lul cneCk NlU I
an oily tongue, that's how he got Tim Foley
to grub stake him. Hank told me afterwards /,
that ne expected 70 60 into the hills and stay
as long as the proyender held out Well,
gentlemen, Hank Morgan blundared into the
mountains. not knowing where he was going,
and not carinS blank either When over in
the Gunnison foothills, he stumbled on
hole where some one had been at work before
As that was as good place to stop as any,
he cleaned out the hole, went down q little
deeper, not moren a foot, and 10y the jumping
lingo! he struck it. He came back, located
his claim ana sold out within a month for
| SjOl,00 VIII any man have the brazen au-
dscity to tell me thar was the result Of fore
thought or brains? No. gentlemen, it was
pure, unadulterated luck, and Hank Morgan
himself when he got to wearing gold cable
for a watch chain and driving a pair Of the
fastest horses in the moWtains, was man
enough to acknowledge it,
Having had no experience in prospecting
I asked what the modGs opedpdi was, and
this information was volunteered:
GNtlN NlAlLS llhllNlltAS VI llto opttlNAS
along tho Rockies and s!erns plunge into
the wilderness to search for gold or silver.
The well-to-do, thai is the men who can pur-
chase their own outfit, lay in supplies for
few months, and have mule or a horse 10
carry their camping and prospecting outfit,
consisting OF 4 bag Of -four, some bacon.
coffee and sugar. A pick, spade and pan are
! fastened to the pack, and the prospector
usually carries q hatchet az his belt and q
Iile on his shoulder. A majority of the
/ rroSpcctors are grub staked,' that is, some
merchant or man with means furnishes them
with supplies, the conditions being that in
the event of success the angel" to use q
theatrical term, divides With them. These
men keep clear OF the beaten trails and they
know more in the aggregate about the eeog-
r0pny of the North American continent than
all the engineer outfits combined. All suffer;
many Of them die; more Of them, and often
the best and the brightest, persistently fail;
and the few, through dumb luck, strike It
| rich. But it is much like a blind man shoot.
ing at target after he has been told the
AAl'EllNls nc Nt!tAll'SN az l- W AT mss huN
II lie max bulls eye only fool would
attribute 10 his craftsmanship,
"Thcy say" said another, that about
every ten years there Is 4 business panic in
the East, but I've been out here eet!e over
thirty year. and know for fact that every
ten years there is a mining craze-some new
outcrop or diggings have been discovered,
ana there is rush and boom. In 49 the
world was running 10 California. In so the
the country was crazy over Pixies Peak. In
80 the silver discoveries Of Virginia City
were making millonaireS by the score. In
70 there came the Leadvlle rush and 1t was
dandy. In SO the Ccaur de Alene country
was opened up, and so it goes But while
the discovery of mines is largely matter Of
chance, and the management OF them is too
often q swindle ana gamble, where 1t is fol-
lowed honestly and persistcntiy rs bust.
ness enterprise, it is sure to pay in the end.
Why. right here in Denver there are more
men worth $500, 600 than In any city IN the
country except New YORK and Philadelphia,
ana Elne-tenths Of them made their money
out of mining And, let me say, the wealth
is by no means all discovered YET; We have
only skinned the surface
Others at once became reminiscent, and
without exception e,i were disciples Of the
doctrine Of lucS.
"Why,' continued another, "there was Old
Cruise He wens to Montana whom il was a
bowling Wilderness in '63. With sealp-seekinE
Sioux on every hand. For twenty years he
plodded and starved, and lived the life of a
hermit In shadowy gulch near where Butte
City now stands. Why, he got SO poor that
he couldn't get credit for 4 sack of -four,
but he had a dumb faith that there was gold
in the earth near by, and he hung on. He
believed there was money in his claim, and
J after time he got others TO believe the
same: and so there came = day when he sold
out part of his interest to an English syn
dicate ior about 81, ,O0O0lO He is a wiieless,
childless cid man, who does not know what
to do with his money
} "Yes, joined in third party "when old
Captain sutter built his sawmn In the Sierr,
foothills, he had no dream OF gold till one
day It was found In the mil-ace, and CALI
i'ornia within year became an III dorddo,
year after the Custor mass ,cre in the Big
Horn country, during noon halt 4 cavalry
officer sat down TO rest on & knoll Of soft
risv, ppnr hv tvGs his oriarlv HOLDING 4h.