The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-10-31

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quence has brought weeping to the
mourner's bench in close and feverish
campaigns
After that he buried himself in
one of the big mines over in Aspen
where his father was superintendent
and learned mining from A to lizard.
1t was good chance to learn for
those were big mines and now he is
running the biggest mine in Idaho
and working 800 men.
After Aspen busted you remember
he bloomed out as mining exchange
founder and operator-was caller
and general manager OF the fret ex-
change in Denver. That exchange
was great success till Joe quit
You see with all his other gifts be is
a alightning calculator and can tell
you the result of II raised to the
fourth power, multiplied by the cnnA
OF 23 and the product divided by the
square rot OF 439 fore the words are
out IF your mouth
First that ever was heard OF :
clearing house in Colorado was when
Joe instituted the clearing house Of
the old Denver mining exchange
after the brokers got every thing IN
muddle. They did . big business on
that exchange before tho brokers got
80 ratty, and joe used to call the
sales and then 60 into the office and
clear the brokers' accounts from the
memory-as fast as a cat can lap
milk-and never make an error.
1t looked so easy that the pigs of
brokers thought anybody could do
1t, but after Joe quit It took three
men to work the shuttle and they rot
all balled up before their nrst week
was out.
Joe could do it alone with his
shirt on wrong side out.
When he quit Denver he followed
his father up to Idaho to take a place
under him in the Trade Dollar mine
at Silver City-that's the mine he's
boss OF now
And say, it's scorcher-only
two mines in Cripple Creek as big a. t,
that Trade Dollar.
Maybe there isn't any care keep
ing cases on game as big as that
but, land O. Goshen, everything IL
easy to Joe.
You remember when we got him
down from Idaho in '95 to call for
our then new Colorado Syringe min
ing exchange?-Scotts and Danes!
didn't he keep things whirling for
the year and half we had himl-
got to be known all over the country
as The King OF Callers"
But that vast Joe's best pace
after all, and he never struck his
best gait till they sent for him to
come back to Idaho and take charge
of the Trade Dollar under his father.
He'd got ideas brooding in his
head while he was up there before
about the wonderful water power
that was going to waste up there in
those Idaho rivers-used to talk to
me about it until I'd fall of my
chair, for l had never seen Idaho
tsrs.tsS tsen and wasn't enthusiastically in
Used to talk as il he thought it
was q sin to labor, without putting
thought into your work. Always
talking, talking, he was, about the
dignity Of labor associated with ideas
and the shame of working without
thinking, when he got me of alone.
Was always figuring how he could
harness the marvellous force going to
waste in those rivers and make it do
the mining and grind up those Idaho
mountains and glut the world with
gold and silver-for Idaho is three
quarters noun tains and three quarters
of the mountains are mineralized with
gold and silver Colorado holds .
flush on the gold output now, but in
the early days when all the mining
was placer mining Idaho held the
high hand and her output Was
astounding-20 times as great in the
first ten years as the output of Col
orado. Idaho basin, just out from
Boise as Cripple Greek is from Col
orado Springs, is credited aanifk an
output OF three hundred mill in
placer gold from 1862 to '72, aud
that's more gold than Colorado has
produced up to date including Grip
pie Creek-if you can believe their
hlstories.aud verbal tradition. But
of course you can't believe them alb
solutely-bave to make allowance
for local patriotism. Those folks up
in Idaho lie about their mining re-
cords just as patriotically as we do
in Colorado.
However, Idaho basin was beyond
doubt one of the richest large placer
fields ever discovered and the state
had fully dozen other good camps
booming at the same time.
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