The Arizona sentinel., 1897-09-18
"STAY WITH IT,"

remote point or place the mineral conditions are more favorable, causes an impatience that has wrecked more mining men and mining communities than almost any other one cause. Nasty de- velopment is likely to be expensive and improbable. The desire to make a mine before a claim has been properly prospected has so often resulted disastrously as to give the mining industry specula- tive character to which it is not entitled.
 Prospectors and miners often acquire a faith in a favor able destiny that is not justified by the conclusions of good judg- ment. Their money is ofter invested more on faith than on the findings upon which the preliminary steps of mine making are supposed to rest.
 Even when all the conditions justify the attempt to create a pro- ducing mine, patience is essential to success. Once satisfied that his vein conforms to the proper mineral and geological conditions, the miner should, in the language of the street, "stay with it." Through lack of staying qualities the average prospectors who enjoys the distinc- ton of having located a great min ing property has his enjoyment badly frilled along the edges by the fact that the entire product of that property goes into other pockets than his own. It is related that a Colorado Irishman abandoned a claim, which was subsequently, con- verted into a great nine by sinking an additional 10 feet in the shaft. When he heard the news he reg istered a VOW of patience in the following language: "Begorra, if Oi iver git discouraged agin Oi'll sink tin fate furder afore Oi quits th' diggin's."
 In nearly every vocation of life, patience, extending through many years, must be exercised as the price of success, yet in the mining industry many valuable properties are abandoned if the explorations of perhaps less than twelve-month fail to reveal the coveted promise of wealth. If a mining property IS worth developing at ali, it is worth patient test of merit, even if years of work are to follow & careful analysis of the mineral and geo. logical conditions that environ the property, before victory is achieved.
 Impatience is often augmented by its twin symptom of restlessness that sees in the glorious elsewhere and beyond brighter prospects than can be hoped for in the present surroundings. Men who ought to know better suffer from this min eralogical billyache, which takes hold of the system henever a case of indigestible impotence to get rich impairs the digestion of good impulses and affects the normal conditions of the mind. Thus 1t happens that so many well to do mining men overlook home op- portunities for the attractions of Mexico, Peru or the North Pole, as the case may be, fioundering around "from post to pillar" in search of the hiding place of the fickle gold dess of fortune. The dream of some golden Utopia takes posses sion of their mind and the mirage of coming triumphs fllsithe orbit of their vision. If wealthy, they deprive the community or country Tn which they live of money which if invested at home would double and treble itself in short order; if poor, they transfer themselves as productive factors of labor to the tinsel- trimmed elsewhere. Thus many prospectively prosperous min- ing camps are robbed of fair op- portunity to demonstrate their worth to the world.
 WHEN the NeaoS Letter of San Francisco some years ago published the interesting fact of lady'S suc-