The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-02-25
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LET'S BE OPTlMISTS.


less true that where there are ore crop
pings there are ore bodies. Groupings
hardly dropped from the clouds, and
it is not probable that any prehistoric
race fixed up a gOld-brick scheme for
the present generation by scattering
chunks Of ore over the mountains and
covering II up. The body of ore from
which the groupings came may be way
down deep and hard to find, but that
doesn't lessen the certainty OF an ore
body being in existence at least some
where within the vicinity of the crop
pings. Nor is it necessarily true
that fine cropping is more certain to
lead to an ore body than vein that Is
scarce three inches wide on the sur
face. 1t is the history of many big
mines today that they were prospects
a few years ago with men working on
lead not as wide as the hand. Fav-
orable groupings had been followed for
some distance only to prove a tizzle
and finally the following up Of an
Insignificant lead has brought victory
and wealth. That in the upheaval,
or settling, or whatever action may
have made the Wasatch range, all the
big ore bodies chased themselves down
below Salt Lake is preposterous.
That we should have the groupings
and the southernerS the ore is hardly
reasonable. The general formations
here are about the same as in the
southern end of the range where great
mines are now developers; we are on a
direct line with Park City, and from
that camp TO Logan the ore groupings
are continuous. For these and many
other reasons we are prone to believe
that "there'll come time some days"
when our hopes will be realized i'm
fullest measure.
Some of the old timers who have
spent much time and more money in
the mountains east of us with no more
result than depleted exchequer will
no doubt smile at any eifervescence
along this line-but let them smile,
we are glad that they are still able to
smile. They have done their part,
and it is to be sincerely regretted that
their part has resulted so dsastrously
up TO this time. All things must
have beginning and too frequently
the beginning of great things is at
tended 10y failure, but there is no i'm
stance on record where tenacity and
that spirit of never give up the ship"
didn't win eventually. If operations
in our mountains have resulted in
failure thus far il seems that IL is
about time for the luck TO change;
failure was never successful always.
Just at present individual prospects
are shining more brightly day by day,
and why should we not prefer to hope
and believe, rather than remain pes
simistic? Isn't II better to have
hoped and lost rather than to have
never experienced the Joys of antici.
patton? BE Mark Tapley, he who
took no credit for being cheerful when
there was cause. Mark deemed il
worth while to be cheerful when there
was every reason To be otherwise lac
was an Optimist. That's what we
need here -OptimistS There is nc
need Of getting so optimistic as tC
sink needed money in exploits that
offer no more certain returns than oul
mining prospects, but one can wei
AFFORD to be optimistic enough to oilel
such financial encouragement as is il
harmony with the pocketbook, anC
certainly none should ever be pcssim
iStiC enough to offer disbursement
by word Of mouth, If you can't sd.
something good, keep still. Let's b
more cheerful, more hopeful-it neet
cost us no great effort and we vii
sleep better and digest our food t
better advantage.
To those who are now engaged i
the difficult task Of interesting cap
tai in our prospects We can only sul
gest a verse from Oliver Wende