The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-07-09
BEWA Or THE
Plug HAT MINER
Mining Industry Of the West
Suffers from His Ras-
cality.

people some interesting talks about
mining conditions in the west, one
of his topics being the plug Hat
Miner.
s'The Yellow Legged Expert has
been the butt of many good natured
joke throughout the mining camps OF
the west; but like the tenderfoot or
the young man, age and experience
will remedy defects to which he was
born heir; but the ''Plug Hat Miner"
the Lord deliver the unsuspecting
public from his graft
We know full well that the invest
ing public of the east have been
robbed right and left in matters per-
tanning to mining, and that many in
vestors have good cause, or think
they have, to feel sore against the
mining industry, for they have been
induced to buy mining stock that
was not worth the paper it was
printed upon; they have been talked
into buying into mines which really
had no existence, and they have
been betrayed in almost every manner
and form by swlndling agents who
were after their money aud nothing
else. AS matter of fact, they have
been 'taken in" by the sPlug Hat
Miner" by the slick, smooth talker,
who, perhaps, never saw mine in
his life, and who could not tell the
difference between high grade ore
and country rock, if he had speci-
men of both in his hands.
1t is the plug Hat Miner" who
comes out west, secures claim or
group of claims in some mining
camp, and, no matter whether or
not they are possessed of merit, he
makes them the basis of an incorpor-
ated company, the stock of which be
feeds out to suckers at wholesale,
and at almost any price, his state
ments and promises being of such a
nature that the honest mining man
could hardly contemplate them with
out his cheeks being colored with the
tinge of shame.
But, as fool is born every min
ute the field for the nPlug Hat
Miner" is wide one and his profits
are always large He gets the money,
but the mining industry of the west
has to bear the brunt, the ignominy
of his rascality.
1t Is very rare, indeed, that true
western man, an experienced mining
operator, ever goes east with fake
mining proposition. If our eastern
readers ever meet with person
representing himself to be western
mining man, and if he sports plug
hat ''pass him up, for in nine
times out of ten, he is a rascal out
for suckers. The true mining man,
however, can be told by his dress,
by his walk and by his talk. He
will be able to tell something about
the property he represents, of the
formation of the district, of the
character and value of the ores of
his mine, of the amount of work
done in its development and explor-
alton, and his bearing will be such
that one will feel at once that conf
dence can be reposed in him He is
ready to deliver the goods, and is
not a dealer in hot air, for he we'll
knows that any misrepresentation he
may make will have to be explained
upon his return home and that the
future welfare Of the mining industry
depends upon the integrity and far
dealing Of those who are legitimately
engaged In the fascinating occupa-
ton,
The v''lug Hat Miner has no care
Tor Che future, II be can hold np .
victim todey, be 10 satisfied 10.
morrow he will 70 through tbe peck
ets u another snd when bis terri
tofg Is vorlsed he vill sees greeper
nelae shop BIN ~ yop would bic
fe'eple aeiesiyl SAID Lake Mining