The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-07-20
Advertise the Mines.

caption, few days since, had very
sensible editorial urging the people and
mine owners of Idaho to put the news
papers of the state in possession of facts
regarding mining properties and to ogiye
them the widest possible publicity. 1t
very truthfully says that the wonderful
development of the mining industry in
Colorado is largely due to the persistent
manner IA which discoveries, develop
ments and results are exploited in the
newspapers.
The best work newspaper can do to
promote the mining industries of the
state is to thoroughly and persistently
tell the truth and the whole truth about
every mine and mining district in their
respective baliwicks. Experience soon
teaches an Idaho newspaper man that
this is no easy task to accomplish. No
section has more willing newspaper
men than Owyhee to do this and they
can cite many obstacles in the way of
doing so. The obstacles represent the
difference in the temperments Of men
and the difference in the character of
the interests they represents. Here are.
few facts to illustrate this:
The NUGGET Office windows look out
and up toward the most productive
mine in Idaho, the roar of splendidly
equipped mill is heard every hour in
the year except on the Fourth of July,
Thanksgiving and Christmas aud upon
rare occasions when shutdown is
made fora cleanup. The manager is
a most genial and obliging gentleman,
always willing to supply the local paper
with such information concerning the
mines as he feels at liberty to disclose.
Every week be gives a report of the
amount of bullion shipped, and every
month as soon as his report is made out
and forwarded to his company he sup
plies the paper with a synopsis Of the
same; any information relating to i'm
provements made, etc. is always chaer-
fully given. The monthly reports and
the weekly shipments of bullion in
themselves constitute the best adyer-
tisement any mining property or any
camp could have. But these have been
SO monotonously regular for the past
four years that instead of commanding
interest on account of their regularity, |
they are simply passed over as a matter
Of course. Like the roar of the mill
here nobody notices it, but remarks its
absence the moment it shuts down.
The story of the Cross has been told
for nearly two thousand years and has
not yet grown old; but that is differ
snt matter from ringing in any changes
n the operations of mine and mill
which have gone on with monotonous
and, to the owners, satisfactory regu-
arity for four years.
Near Silver City are two valuable
properties which have been steady and
profitable producers for three and four
years, respectively, and are making
regular monthly shipments. The man
lgers are genial gentlemen, always will
ng to impart such information as the
owners are willing to have published,
1ut the companies are both close corpo-
'ations and, naturally, do not consider
he public interested in the details of
heir business, and hence the monthly
hipments and the annual production
If the properties are not reported.
Around both DeLamar and Silver
Jity are numbers of properties, either
Producing or in different stages of de-
reports from which are all
ways matters of interest to the mining
world; but let representative of the
after careful interviews with
he owners, attempt to write them up
airly and he will find it difficult task.
)ne owner will decline to put him in
ofthe facts, telling him that
'he was not mining in the newspa-
,ers,u and the next one will "stuh7'
lim with great deal more than is true
bout his properly. If every claim
,wner approached by the newspaper
nan was of precisely the same temper
nent and all were equally interested in
.dvertising tbe district, the reporter
would have an easy task. Again, it is
,retty hard work for the publisher to
,eep on hunting up items about a prop
rty where he don't even receive the
rice Of subscription from the owner
or his trouble and almost as difficult
or him to keep from saying too much
or the mans property who patronizes
Tim literally.
fall the paying mines in Owyhee
nnld ha trnthfnllv and regularly re-