The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-24


L know I'd go mad as March hare
long before | had grown rich. Then
there is mining. Almost every
Idaho mountain is full Of mineral
indications And it's trade as full
of sensation and interest as hair.
raising border romance, covered
with .yaller.
Men begin prospecting for pas.
time. Then keep it up next year in
earnest The third year they get
the disease and there they are fol
life. Every prospect is a certain
bonanza-till gophered out. Nothing
in it. But that is the fault of the
prospect. All men fail often and
hit it rich some time. Next time
will be the lucky star and off you 90
to strike it. 1t becomes mania
Every prospector is next summers
multimillionalre. All winter, every
winter of his life | can count on
my fingers now ten men who are
every one going to "hit 'er mile
high" next semmer sure. Some of
them in tremendous bursts of conf
dence told me almost the spot and
invited me along. | hope they will
find it as glorously rich as they ex-
pect. | know they believe it. Fact
is, believed it myself while they
were telling about it. No man on
earth could look one of them in the
face and doubt his sincerity for a
moment.
At first such stories set me fairly
wild. l got one dose of experience
along that line. 1t cost me q lot of
sleep and $25 in cold cash. | may
grubstake another old duffer with
smooth story, rich specimen and
an affidavit face-and l may not.
Still, one of these stories of what
prospector found way off in the
mountains, revealed to friend and
then died, may catch me s.between
Jerusalem and Jerico' some day and
off III go as dead game as a new
n Or ri MI Al.
minus decent grub stake and with
considerably aroused confidence in
the efficacy of self inflicted kicks.
But next time | won't tell it, Yet
the fact remains that more than one
fortune has been made by men screw
ing up their courage to the sticking
point and following one of these old
'1soldiers" with lost nine legend
They do exist but which is the one
with the ore in it? That is where
the rub comes. And that is why
you bite 80 easy, and kick yourself
SO often. The mountain country is
as full of new things as re-politi
clan is full of lies, and YOU never
grow dull or blue. The country is
not only full of changes and sur
prises, but the people are communica-
tive and always truthful. Now,
there is my friend, Charlie FOSSIL
man, a hustling real estate agent.
Everybody who, knows Charlie knows
that the George Washington Ratchet
story is equally as applicable to him
as 1t is to my other friend 'sWill"
Hartman Of the Courier Now
Charlie told me of two men CAMPING
20 miles below Weiser one Sunday
evening and so completely had the
earth's curves that run through town
hit the spot that they actually heard
the choir in one of the Weiser
churches singing hallelujah chorus.
linen other men told me of circum- /;
stances equally strange of the sound
power of Idaho atmos- :
9here. But refuse to vouch for I
'he truth of any of them except this
vouch for Fosselman and he voucbes \
'or the truth and veracity of both ]
he other fellows. If he refuses a
Know that Senator Harris and DR. 7
of Weiser will render him |
very assistance needed to give it :
10Th character and tone. know p
nysely that western atmosphere has Sc
tremendous carrying powers. One
'me, after living in the mountains
everal weeks without vegetables. I " "
nlffed the delightful aroma of =,