Gilpin observer., 1899-06-29
ADVICE TO PRosPEcroRs.
Mining Reporter of Denver Tells Them
How to Conduct Themselves.

Mining Reporter of Denver Tells Them
How to Conduct Themselves.
June is the month when men go into
mining and matrimOny. Both are said
to be uncertain but profitable If con-
Quoted according to the laws of COM
mon sense. Now, when the pros
pector, character that Mining Re-
porter admires and respects above
most others, goes off alone in his never
ending search for lode and placer, let
him remember that n bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush-to use our
friends words. Or in other words let
him not repeat his mistakes of former
years, and attempt to become multi
millionaire before he can grubstake
himself. When he finds vein let him
be content with one claim and a fifty
foot hole rather than five claims and
five ten-foot holes.
Another thing. let our friend seek
rather for an adit tunnel proposition
than for vein upon which shaft
must be sunk. The cross-cut prOpO-
sitiOn is a compromise. Water to the
poor miner is fatal. Better an adit
tunnel in so ore that practically does
its own hoisting and pumping, than
500 ore at the bottom of n living
spring.
So, too, my friend. find place where
you can stay with your ore" Though
your sacks are few and of low grade.
still they can pe turned into flour and
bacon, powder and steel. If your values
desert you you can quit or swear. But
it is a costly, heart-brealling thing to
chip your way through solid rock in a
cross-cut only to have fault rob you
of your vein. or to find it pinched ard
barren. Or, when sinking your shaft.
even on n more promising vein than
Is shown by the adit tunnel. to strike
n Mississippi-like flow after n years
work and have the water chase you up
the ladder. DO not let high assays and
n wide vein in wet. faulty, remote
country win you away from the less
fascinating but more sure adit tunnel
just up the gulch.
Another thing, ''pardner." beware Of
the knife edge streak that assays into
the thousands and is as refractory ,s
n bronco or maiden fair. Look not
upon it. Wed yourself to the wide
veined. free milling. adit tunnel propo-
sition, even though it's values are low.
Another thing. ''pardner." before we
turn 1t. remember that when you do
strike it that the whole capitalistic
world is not going to fight for chance
to buy you out. If you have taken
Mining Reporters advice and have
wide veined. elf-draining and hOisting,
easily milled proposition that will pay
expenses, keep it. Remember that you
are probably II better miner than n
business man. and that If you do sell
out the chances are that you would
either lose or blow in your money. for.
as our friend Jay Gould said. at is
easier to make fortune than to keep
it."
In the old claim it is safe. But II
you have Il claim that must have capi-
tai to make it worth anything. then
sell ii for the first cash offer that you
get. Do not haggle. Cash seeking
prospect holes is very easily scared
away. remember. Do not sell out n
controlling interest" that means the
whole mine. Nobody but n gilded fool
will buy less. nobody but trusting.
honest miner will trust himself on the
minority side of business deal unless
he has money to fight with If that little
game of freeze out" should be played.
Well. ''pardner." good luck to you.
Call and see us in the fall.