The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-02-27
The Mining Fair Sends
Investors Through
the State.
Montana Company to Dredge
the Trinity on Large
Scale This Year:

The value TO the mining industry of
the Mining Fair, which now enters on
its last week, cannot be measured by the
casual visitor. It cannot be measured
even by the mining men directly con-
cerned In it and most familiar with 1t.
But it's value will be great, and 1t will
repay MANIFOLD the time and money In
vested by enterprising citizens of mining
counties, business men and others inter-
ested in the prosperity of the mining In
dustry.
It's benefits cannot be directly traced
any more than can the benefits Of any
sort of advertising. When a man buys
bottle of pain killer In drugstore the
enterprising manufacturers of 1t who
have proclaimed its name and virtues
will never know what advertisement
caused the buyer to call for that brand.
The man may have remembered 1t from
boyhood. 1t is so with the special efforts
that Southern California and other agri-
cultural sections have made to draw
homeseekers from the East. Population
and property increase, but not many
new homes and orchards could be pointed
out as the result Of this pamphlet or that
exhibition or excursion. The benefits OF
the Mining Fair will be similarly lost In
the growing mining boom which the fair
dreds of Californians have acquired a
new and more intelligent interest in min
ing, and will be more ready to join the
thousands all over the State who are
putting little or large sums of money
into mining ventures. Many will most
readily turn to the counties that have i'm
pressed them with attractive exhibits of
their riches.
A few. specific illustrations can be
easily found, however. One can hear at
the fair Of two men from Scotland who
after examining the ores in the Placer
County exhibit and making some In
quirieS, boarded the train a week ago for
a trip. to Placer County. Last week an
Eastern man became much interested in
some samples of iron ore from Shasta
County, hunted up the man in charge of
Shasta County. Some samples of slate In
the Calaveras County exhibit have result
ed in G. w. B. McCarty giving a bond
on slate proposition near Copperopolis.
There is no question about the benefit
of our exhibit" scvs H. w. H. Penniman
who is in charge of the Calaveras County
display, but it is hard to point it out.
Every day men study over, the ores and
or intentions. A great many nave quietly
noted the names of mines, their location
owners from the cards on the samples OF
ores evidently with an intention to in
vestigate them; but when a man is look
ing for mine he doesn't say much about
it."
That is the way with all The county
exhibits, each of which is supplemented
with attractive and conservative descrip-
tive pamphlets and each of which has
surely attracted the particular interest OF
many individual mining investors. One
machinery firm has sold several engines
of a particular style through having them
on exhibition. But the bulk of the bene-
fits of the enterprise will be lost to def
mite view. They will be felt like the
sunshine.
John C. Jens, the well-known mining
engineer and president of the Pacific
city on Saturday. the 18th inst, for Bel
fast, Ireland, and London on business
connected with tho company. He will be