Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-03-03

known all over the world as "rhe Poet
arrived In the city last night from
the north. and, being NET by THE CIrI-
ZEN representative a few minutes before
he appeared on the rostrum at Grants
opera house 10 entertain the large audi
ence that had assembled TO hear him talk,
was interviewed az follows In regard to
his trip to Alaska:
eyes, | am going TO Alaska, but / go
we'll provided for. with q good claim be
fore me, and plenty OF capital behind me.
Let me tell you something not generally
known. IL has cost more 10 get the
worlds gold out OF the ground than the
gold Is worth, and not n man In n thou
sand who goes TO find gold ever finds a
bonanza, and not one In a hundred ever
inds a paying claim. There are tricks In
mining that Uncle Sans best detectives
could not detect, and tens OF thousands OF
people have been buncOed and millions
OF dollars have been paid for mines that
the parties who sold knew we're absolute
ly worthless.
But people must be hnmbugsed. Bar
nun said 80 and Barnum knew. Mining
should be a. legitimate ~ any other bus
mess, and every man In business, outside
Of the man who draws his salary from
Uncle Sam, or a corporation, Is a gam
bier. The strongest banks sometimes
20 under, and when a man comes from a
mining country with a placer mine TO
sell, and tells You that there is a million
In II. or 100000 or $4,000, and offers 10
take a hundredth part OF what he repre-
sents II 10 be worth, ask him why he Is
willing 10 make such a sacrifice; why he
ia willing 10 make you q present OF q
barrel OF money as good " IL locked In a
safe. For the expense OF getting II out
Is comparatively small.
with a quartz mine II Is different, be-
cause 10 get the metal out OF the quartz
az q rule, unless IL is free milling and
very rich, requires expensive machinery,
which the poor man cannot secure with
out capital. There are men on their way
from Alaska now, and some from Seattle
and Frisco and Portland AndOther places
on the coast who never saw Alaska, with
bOnanzas for sale that do not exist, ex-
cept on the fraudulent papersu upon which
the location notices, transfers, deeds, etc,
are written. Some men locate claims
J on streams where n0gOld exists except as
Il exists everywhere In a mining country,
in cOlOrs perhaps. They go TO a recorders
office, have their claims recorded In
fictitious names, have them decided OF
transferred TO themselves for a c0nsidera'
tion, and then strike for the east TO In
teryiew the unsophisticated sucker with
the Doodle, who expects TO get 800 for : 4
Now, why do they expect thisp Do
they think 1t Is a game OF bunc0 or high
way robbery. and are they interested IL
that line OF businessp The average mar
who finds gold In paying quantities ha'
no time 10 leave Alaska and his COLDER
claim behind him TO be jumped perhapl
while he IL gone For the purpose o
raising money, all he has 10 do IL 70 pu
In his dam and s~luices, go TO bed roc
and raise II from there.
? "'What fools these m0rtals BET On
, hundred thousand men are headed 10
, Alaska at least. And the more men tina
20 there the more gold will be found. Blu
tell you you will hear OF more sufferinI
than you have heard Of outside OF bleed
ing Cuba In years. Nineteen out o
twenty will come back or die playinl
f~reeze-Out. Hundreds will be murdere,
and many impromptu necktie parties
will take place as soon as Judge Lyncl
calls his court 10 order. Five years from
now q man will stand five times as goo
a chance Of success, both In securing
claims aud In working them. There ar,
not One-twentieth enough claims at pres
ent TO supply work for the men that will
expect work, while five years hence raj
roads and electricity and machinery vii
he ready 10 supply labor for thousands.
' what would | advise men 10 dOY
! will tell you. / have been labOring I'm
3 der a temporary ft OF mining insanit
' for thirty years. l / have spent over $40
o. 900 In mining, and | have had a world
Q experience. Yet Alaska had no inducI
ments for me until a dozen or more ger
1 tlemen who could afford TO lose OffeTe
a to put up $1,000 each for me 10 20 pro-
!. pecting. The result il that others hay
= since come In. and | expect 10 have f6C
600 or $50, 900 In money or is equivaleI
10 explore, prospect or purchase with.
"NOw let US take a common. sense bus
ness view OF this matter. A man who go
TO Alaska, or half a dozen men In a part
"A must have at least $1,000 each under pre-
emit conditions 10 stay and eat for oil
;, year. A mar that can raise $1,000,
who has saved that amount, must
Ia capable OF earning $1,000 a year, gene
N ally more. Very we'll, | tell you that
least nineteen out OF twenty Of this ella
will come out without a dollar, for 4
fellow who lives from hand TO mOut
q. and who hires TO 20 or beat his way, WI
stay and succeed after the $1,000 mar
heartsick tired and bankrupt. Here
X my plan. Let your readers take II
what II Ia worth. Let twenty-five to az
M men who intend going put their hea
together, investigate the history OF
ar mining countries land all we're mo
favorable than Alaska) and II tn
find that my statement Is true, DC
y. their $4,000, 10000, $4,000 or $500
ai and send two or not more than thT
al good practical, intelligent men, select
Oh from among themselves, with Just suI
de cient grub and tools for their Own NJ
Let them 90 TO Alaska, anywhere, sele
their field afterlthey get there, and IN
On will ind thousands OF miners with the
"a own tools. grub and outfits ready 10 90
work for wages not above s. TO 81 ?
day. Don't eXpsct 70 find a bonanza
once. Surprising they HAYS 10 work tv
IN three OF four years, what's the OddsY
Ia practical and legitimate, and no o
expects TO accumulate u fortune In I
grocery. drug or any other business I'm
~ be has found customers. Thus the m
of who put up 1900 each are at home
"a, tending 20 legitimate business, and 81
a. posing they do lOseY They can afford
Sl else they could not afford to lose a yea
ne time as we'll.
IN snow. this ia Just what ! am dol
he and many OF the men who talked abe
'rs going with me are totally unfit for 81
ne y trip and without any knowledge
10 mining whatever. Just think, II }
Al. can possibly figure II out. OF the hea
that will break because OF loved OF
who will never return. | was at Wore