The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-05

al the expense incurred. i NDulQ say
to those cowboy and shoemaker ex-
perts that have not been out to Deep
Greek that they are not needed, as no
one wants to bond anything without
money in sight. neither does the miner
want what is underneath the surface
of their prospects condemned.
1t is strange that these experts know
so much about mines aad minerals and
none of them seem to get rich, and are
always working for wages, or swearing
in court for fees. | suppose the expert
told the truth that said 10 Deep Creek
man: You fellows wait until we get
through with Mercur; then we will
boom your country"
What we want out here is mining
men and men with money. We have
had promoters and wildcat stock SELL
ing enough, and when any Deep Creek
Stocks are offered for sale it would be
well for the would-be purchasers to
find out outside of newspaper cuts and
maps if there really are such mines or
prospects. Pictures of tunnels, mills
on the side of the mountains where
nothing but brush grows, have been
too plentiful already
There Ele three different kindS3 The
mining colonel, whose superior knOWI-
edge of the formation of the earths
crust gives him advantage over the or
binary mortal He is a heavy man.
has never seen war nor cooked a can
non, but knows all about mines. He
gets his promotion in various ways.
One is by becoming suddenly rich, an
other by becoming an expert and going
from mine to mine to find out which
one he can bond without putting up
| a cent, but the most of them are pro-
NOTED by the newspaper fraternity.
The genial reporter gets hold Of man
that has just sold or bonded a mine or
come to town. and in order to get a.
good item, or all the man knows and
more, approaches him with How do
you do. coloneI?' I have known some
men to give the reporter SO to $40, and
one went so far as to give a suit of
clothes. That colonel is now rich.
The second colonel is so-called be-
| cause some one wanted to show him re-
speCt. He was a colonel before the
! war. He is very dignified.
The other colonel is the kunnel Of de
! de regiment. He was in the war, in
all the wars and battles that Grant
| was in. or all that Sherman saw, and
| 1 have yet to see one that was not with
| Sherman in his march to the sea. He
went fishing with General Sheridan,
! John A. Logan, and cooked the fish
] for them, because John A. said he could
| cook them better than anyone else, as
| the colonel can do anything better than
anyone else. 1 suppose it is rule in
| the army for the colonies to cook the
| fish for the generals, or it may be that
| it is the rule in the army to call the
! cook a colonel. ] do not know. He has
| no scars, but draws pension and
sWeaTs at the government for not in
| creaSing it. He knows all about mines.
draws maps and groups mines where
! there never was any mineral. A man
| that does not know the colonel after
| being in a mining camp one day is to
be Ditied. The saloon man an6 the
| hotel man that do know him well, are
| out money. He is so dignified that If
| either saloon or hotel man gives him
| his bill he will draw himself up and
1 stand at present arms and inform him
| that he will leave his house immediate
| ". The proprietor of the Walker House
| says that he presented one his bill and
! the colonel would not speak to him
| when he came to the city again.
! Most of these colonies have great eX-
| pectatiOns. They will take you to one
| side and tell you that they have just
! received word that they have come into
! possession by a sale of some land that
will bring them $1,000. When nat is
worn out, he next comes at the suffer
| ing public with a big sale of some mines
and all the time eats and drinks at
| some poor victims expense, as though
with his pension he got an order on
mankind to keep him forever.
| Some of these colonies will sit around
| in stores, saloons particularly, or at
| the table. and as soon as there is an
| opening for them to chip in, enter into
! the conversation they will do so, and
! soon the audience will have TO listen
/ to his experiences and his knowledge,
/ for he knows it all. No matter what
/ good mans name may be discussed, he
| knows something against that man
/ where he has taken a bride or some
! thing black against him that no one
else knows of.
! He is always delighted with the
! Fourth Of July. He is around early and
on hand where drinks are free. Hin
! sometimes gets his name put on the
programme to read a paper. 1t is not
military to make speeches. He reads
/ it. but most of the time he is very
! tired Everything is free with him. He
| goes to the dance and very often has tO
be led out.
What would a mining camp be with
out the ''kunnel?''
These characters described are in
| every camp in the west. They do not
like each other, only sc far as drinks
are to be worked.
The reader will observe that there are
no generals or captains in a mining
camp, with one exception; that is Cap
tain Egan of Bingham, and he must
! have been a captain of some steam
boat on the Mississippi river, where
there is no promotion.
H ]. FAUST.
Deep Creek, July 81, 1900.