Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-05-09

business, that he will have abundant happi--
ness in his home, that health and wealth
will attend him constantly and that as he
nears the sunset he may change. / would
rather be a Lazarus however, than a Dives
l would rather be a man who made some
one happy, man who built something, a
man who furnished employment for some
man so that he might earn his daily bread
than be man of the opposite character
should dislike, indeed, to have it said that
I envied the success of my fellow men. 1
should dislike to have it said that nv
prayer was that failure and devastation
might be brought about by the God of
Vengeance. l should dislike to be of dis
position that suggested dismal things,
horned toads, serpents, scorpions and dead
mems bones. l should hate to live in an
atmosphere where felt that a little wealth
made me better than the poor man. Wealth
is not a measure of intelligence-neither is
it measure of the manhood or manliness
of man. Wealth is the bone the dog
buries and then worries and sleeps with one
eye open in the fear that some other dog
may come along and dig it up. Yes,
brother Randall, we must admit that we are
poor. We must admit that what you say
regarding the chattel mortgages are true
We must admit that we are toiling early
and late in the hopes0not only that we
may benefit ourselves but that we may be
of some benefit to the world. When death
has pressed its cold hand against us-when
we have looked for the last time into the
eyes of our loved ones-when the hearse,
or express wagon, that bears our remains
to be consigned to earth again, passes on
the street, we would rather have it said that
we had not only borne the battle for our
selves but for others as well, than to have
it said that we had lived for ourselves alone.
In other words, to arrive at the meaning he
suggests himself, as between being a hog
and the editor of the Georgetown Courier
there is no choice.
In another part of this issue appears an
interview with Bert Freeman, the Nebraskan
who has been so successful in mining in the
Yankee Hill section. Mr.. Freeman is a
successful business man and he has applied
the theories that made him successful in
other lines to mining In other words, when
he came here he said to himself eff capital
can afford to build mills for custom ores,
and treat this ore brought in by the various
mining men for SIPS per ton, why should
not l run a mill on a small scale and treat
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make a profit at that price I can make
whatever profit they make and the differ
ence between the price they charge and the
value of my ore. 1 can drive tunnel on
the vein and instead of dumping the stuff
from the vein onto the dump I will let it
pass through the mill and over the plates"
This was not a mining mans view-any
alleged expert in the district would have
laughed at him had he expressed it to them
or sought their advice He did not, how
ness judgment to the conduct of the proper
ty. AS result he is making money from
his big vein in the Home Sweet Home dis
trict, west of Alice and Yankee, and is
bringing gold bricks and concentrates to
Idaho Springs every week. The time is
coming when there will be more of this
character of mining.
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Picnic parties are going to be popular
during the coming summer and it is pro-
bable that Santa Fe and Bellevue mountains
will share honors as places of pleasure,
sightseeing and recreation.
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The story that the Colorado & Southern