Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-06-25
Some Advice and SuggeS=
lions on Mining.
The Great Prosperity Of America Is
Based Upon Two Primary industries
That Of Farming and Mining.

ticular class of investment into when 7
to put their spare cash. 1t is prob /
ably but a form of fashion similar to q
women's hats or mems clothes. For i
the past two or three years the /
American public have been crazy for I
what is generally known as indus /
trials, or in other words the stocks
and bonds in railroad, steel, ship !
building and securities" companies
which we're regarded as absolutely
safe because such men as Morgan,
Schwab and Hill set hoe genus omnes
figured at the head, Recent disclos-
ures have shown that these men were
but the ordinary financial vuitures
who made it a business to prey on the
small investor and thereby profit to
the tune of many millions, leaving the
moor stockholders the wreck OF the
company already delivered over to
the hands of ~rapacious lawyers. The
great and ever increasing prosperity
of America is based upon two pri-
mary industries, farming and mining
and to the latter, the American
public seems once nor disposed to
turn. Probably there are no two in
dustries in the world WHICH return
cleaner money to mar than these.
True they are not devoid of the
elements of speculation and manipu-
Iation. which however are the work
of the idle CRATER rather than the
honest toiler. And as against farm
ing, mining has the one great ad-
vantage that it is devoid of competi-
lion. The extension of farming,
factories or stores tends to lower the
prices of products while the mining
of precious metals completes with
none and enriches all. These remarks
are particularly true of gold mining
the antiquity of which is lost in the
mist Of the remotest ages. We reac
in the earliest parts Of the Bible o
silver and gold which must have beef
mined long before the days of Abra
ham and the Patriarchs, and thou
sands of years before this the Egypt
ians and Aztecs priced and mined tn
precious ~facinating yellow metal
Properly conducted, divorced fror
the willy schemes of the u%uscrupulou
promoter, gold mining is to-day th
most Legitimate form of a genuin
investment which the cautious ma
can consider. The wealth honestl
won thereby and not by stock manil
ulation is the cleanest that a man ca
deposit at his bank. Unlike specl
lation in bonds, stocks, wheat, lar
or hogs its acquisition has improve
ished none, but on the contrary hi
distributed money and profit to mi
ers,l laborers, mechanics, stor
keepers, farmers and hundreds
others who settle round the bi pa
able mine. One has but to look
the railroad map of this great +
public and ponder how many miles
railroad would now be in operate
if gold had not been found in Califo
MIA. Arizona, Colorado, Nevada al
in fact if mining did not exist in
most every state in the union. I
prospector and the miner are n
only the pioneers Of the unexplor
parts of the world, but through the
have been built some Of the fine
cities of Australia, Africa and Amt
lea. They have made the most al
deserts bloom like the rose, tral
formed trackless wastes into pricelt
real estate, compelled railroads
build and capitalists to invest in pal
of the earth which were previou.
designated on the map as "unknow
or ''unexplored. The miner is
creator of real wealth, the dlscove
and development of a new mini
district is watched with the keen'
interest by all from the milliona
mine operator and the railroad m;
mates, the steel king and the mach
cry manufacturer down to the SIN
farmer, the assayer, the mucker
the irresponsible and shameless &C
pany promoter and shark. To