Williams news., 1903-03-07
Member B
TENDERFOOT
 TEACHINGS
A Word in His Favor That May Serve to Spur Him on to
 Still Greater Endeavors

To be called a tenderfoOt is no
 disgrace. If the person to whom
 this title was applied lacked brains.
 if he were lacking in integrity, in
 honesty and intelligence and busi-
 ness ability, then he might feel of
 tended at being so designated if
 he had any sense, which he would
 not have, if bereft of all these at-
 tributes. Why, then, should the
 so-called "tenderfoot" take any
 notice whatever of this attempt at
 ridicule? says the Salt Lake Min
 ing Review.
 Like the stripling who was de- nied association with men of ex- perience, the tenderfoot will inn prove withage. As general thing he represents the best blood, the highest intelligence of the region from which he came. If from the east, he is probably the most enter prising of the family. not being con- tent to merely raise beans and pumpkins year after year because his ancestors raised beans and pumpkins from boyhood to second childhood. The tenderfoot is but obeying the injunction of Horace Greeley and is following the star of empire toward the setting sun.
 When we look over the western mining world of today we find inn portant and responsible positions being held by men who were, com paratively speaking, but tenderfeet yesterday. Indeed, take away the tenderfoot from our midst and there would be noticeable decline in active mining operations. It is the tenderfoot who infuses new life into the industry, for he comes to us full of hope and confidence, en- ergy and activity. He follows no beaten path, and it is surprising to note the many good things he finds which have been trodden over by the "mossback" old-timer for a quarter of century or more. If several big deals are on tap, it is we'll to conclude that one or more tenderfeet are mixed up with it. Because a man is tenderfoot, it is no sign that he has no money or backing. Don't you believe it! He is apt to have more good money of the realm down his newly donned corduroys than the old timer who spends his time on the street cor ners, or adorns the front portals of a saloon, and who is always be- moaning the fact that he "never had any luck"
 Then, again, the successful min ing operator is apt to grow stale. He has made his pile, but is lack ing in ambition, and nothing will tempt him to move out of his tracks, hardly, unless it is proposition in in which be can take out twenty dollar gold pieces already coined. An enthusiastic tenderfoOt, with good judgment and money at his command, is worth dozen such, and his influence for good is being felt throughout this intermountain region. As a prospector, tender foot is often success. Not because he knows anything of mining, of formations, or anything that would indicate the occurrence of mineral, but because he is so filled with en- with curiosity, that he will search for ledges, veins and outcrops in places that the expe- rienced prospector would ignore and overlook. While it is true that more good mines are found by fol- lowing set rules, because experience and mining knowledge has laid them down, still, once in awhile the tenderfoot will find bonanza merely because he is possessed of traits that are often lack