Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-03
OUR MINING INTEREST.
1t Eclipses All Others, ana the Time
for Action IL Mt Hand.

No the Editor ~ the opsSss hl,s
LAS VEGAS. N. M, November Sd.
1897 - Your editorial in Monday even
ing's paper, on sour mining interest,"
presents a fsot we'll told. In cores
pondence and conversation with citi.
tens Of our Territory, as we'll as others
from the Rocky mountain region, all
recognize the fact that the revival Of
the Mining interest will do more than
all else combined. II will revive all
other interests.
The way to revive the mining in
terest is to revlve IL. II IS not neces-
sary that every man, woman aud child
locate, buy or lease a mine, or 60 pros
pectlng for one; but, as far as talk
goes, all should do their part. You
talk up your business-make it your
business to talk up mining
Mining is an industry, a business, as
Governor Adams said, In an address
recently delivered before a representa-
tive body Of men-"Mining is business;
1t is not gambling F"
You produce wool, grain, fruit, etc /,
to sell TO some one else, who has
money mining produces money direct.
"The way to revive mining is to
revive it" appeals directly to the class
termed sibuslness men. 1t may not
be we'll to advise a producer of wool,
giain, etc., who is struggling along
through deprecated values OF invest
ments and productions, to TURF his In
~vestments-hIs farm, or range, and his
labor-into mines or mining stock.
Yet he can do his share to promote
mining in auy way that he thinks will
produce results.
There are millions Of capitalists in
moneyed cenlers, who would invest
In mines, il they knew how. As you
remark, Colorado is having a revival of
mining interests, capital naturally
looks to Colorado for investments IN
mining.
During the past week, l have found
q much greater number OF business
men '.interested in mining" in a
s~'business" way, than l expected to
find. They are showing their faith by
their s'work," aud are putting lime
and money as we'll as talk, in the
development of mining property.
There is no rivalry between Colorado
and Nav Mexico. A certain class of
investors prefer t invest in Cripple |
Greek, Eeadville, and Gilpin county,
while the northern camps of our Ter
ritory, which are being developed,
present many alterations for Others,
while the undeveloped portions in the
central part of our Territory, lie liter
ally unmoved millions Of gold, copper,
iron, coal, etc.
To the readers of The OPTIC, /
would say: Post yourselves, 80 that
you can tell the world what a wealth
we have here Personally | might add,
having been kind of dislocated on &C.
count of settling near a silver camp,
for my health where / remained from
1882 10 '95 and built up a home, ]
quietly slipped up to Denver to see how
'.things were coming'' and have been
watching the .sotar Of Empire" in its
Colorado aud some other min
ing 8 ates and territories have been get
the benefit of its rays, which are
over British Columbia and as
far north az Alaska.
Westward, you know, it "wends its
~ the Pacific 10 the limit and 1t
over the Rocky mountain
and New Mexico is in q posi-
ion to catch them both s'going and
,omtng." Lst US be up and doing
he Re Election from the west, as well rs
he direct effalgcnce. 1,
A word as to the miners national
OF information, to which you
lave alluded. This, within the few
since it has been started, has
proved all that its name implies, and
It a become a place OF meeting.
person, and by correspondence, OF
The seller Of mines and the investor.
Even this miners bureau has been
started by men who are familier with
The pushing If Colorado's Interest,"
through fairs, expositlons, and in other
WAYS, and from their experiences have
practical results into this
bureau of information. AS an expert
meut, it has been a succe s, and many
sales of mining properly have been
that would mol otherwise have
been made.
IL has been an assistant to every
phase of mining, and every o III
any way interested 10 mining, Is its
Ills ,fue, as you say, that all this
NAV sound ike u scheme for the ben
eft Of some one. The projectors haye
avoided all this, IS far as possible.
The bureau simply ac,s as q medium
to get buyer aud seller together.
j. d. WHITMAN ,