Williams news., 1903-05-02
PESSIMISTS AND OPTlMISTS.
Two Glasses of Citizens That Are Detri-
 ment to Every Community.

ing camp, the chronic optimist and the chronic pessimist, says the Cher ry Creek Miner.
 The former paints the atmos- phere with lurid hues, exaggerates prospect holes to dividend-payers and goes into convulsions over half-inch veins and infrequent pockets, booms a mediocre camp to the proportions of Golconda and induces capital and labor to embark in development of pros poets which would not prove re- munerative were they followed to the center of the globe.
 This man lies so often that he really believes he is telling the truth, and at his door lie the bleaching remains of what might, under more authentic reports, have developed into prosperous camps.
 His anthisesis, the chronic pessi- mist, occupies an equally unfor- tunate niche in the makeup of the average camp. You may find him in the general store, the saloon or on the sidewalk. He preserves an appearance of ennui when ap- preached by strangers or would be investors in the properties of the camp. He is at war with the whole world. He is long, lean, dyspeptic and glowers at every one upon whom the sunshine of pros perity shines. Ask him as to the merits of claims of well-known value as to producers, and he will look down upon you compassion ately, shrug his shoulders and tell you "that our mines don't amount to anything," with an implication that the longer you stay in the camp the better your chances of going broke.
 He is a fifth wheel in the wagon and resembles, more closely than anything else, patent medicine portrait of "before taking" in valid.
 Many a good deal in mines of true merit have been knocked into a cooked hat by the malicious in- situations of the chronic pessimist, who is an ever-present adjunct to mining camps.
 It is a noticeable fact, however, that the mining camp optimist never risks his own hard cash in any of the rich properties he so warmly recommends to his friends, while the equally degenerate pessi- mistic monstrosity is forever cop pering his bets and making strenu- ous endeavors to crawl into the in ner circle of prosperity through channels which he speaks so dis paragingly of to others.
 The body of Charles Sorenson, who was known in Kingman as "Dutch Charlie," was found by members of the government sur veying corps fifteen miles above Ehrenburg, Yuma county, and two miles back from the Colorado river, on the 3Oth of March. He had been feeling ill, when last seen at the survey camp, but thought he could make it to Ehrenburg. The surveyors were attracted to the body by the action of dog Soren- son had with him. The faithful animal refused to let the men near the body and they had to las so it and drag it away to allow them to examine it. A few dollars in money was found on the body and in his pack was a small amount of food. E. T. Phelan of Needles had grubstaked the man and he was to go down the river as far as Ehrenburg and then return to Needles. He had a sister in Ala meda, who recently died leaving him heir to her estate. The body was buried where found. "Dutch Charlie" was harmless fellow and was liked by everybody in the county.-Mohave Miner