The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1906-01-12
.GAWTHROP HAS
THRILLING LIFE

The following letter is to one Of
the editors of this paper and was
written in Meadows, Idaho, by a
former resident Of this county, who
now owns mining interests in Idaho
and has been there several years. and
being letter intended for publica-
ton. ii is produced here for the edi-
fcotion Of Telegram readers:
"Old Boy: As this is the last day
of 1905. permit my addressing You,
during thc last few fleeing hours of
Inc old year Old men can realize
what Tins means, and no doubt
Dictatorship will hear IFS meaning
pronounced from the pulpit today
/ privilege that | can not enjoy.
AN north Of Boise City about 1G0
miles. surrounded by about three
feet of snow. with the beautiful still
sitting down. Snow in this section
sometimes gets 10 a depth of about
eight feet. but the mail men and the
mining men keep the roads open
every day through tine winter. Snow
shooting. slcighing and sledding are
fine. | almost feel like STANDING
myself in bells. DOMINIC snow saltes
and sailing over the mountain sides
for practice. 1t beats Your dumb
belI exercise all out of Imagination.
"Two miles east, about the same
distance west. ten miles south and
twenty miles north the God-annoint-
ed waters come up out Of Mother
Earth. Welt Some of your angel
people would say. to see boiling hot
( water coming up out of the ground
That they were almost in hell. !
know they would land there. let
me tell you for fact thatone ! not
80 near hell here. surrounded by
snow. dotted with hot springs, as he
| is in a more so-called civilized world,
where cup of water would be
benefit 10 The tongue. What IS
hell?
"Tomorrow | 90 about p miles
I 10 large copper property, in which
| j am Interested. Down at the mine
there is no snow. Deer feed here
like Posts cattle do in Harrison
county in summer.
"Above me short distance people
of Youngstown, Ohio, have, it is said
one of the largest ore bodies in the
Union. They are capitalized ut
So 100000. / offered West Virgin
ians chance-better than the
Youngstown people haye-but their
foresight is too short, or idolized
brain too great for the few paltry
dollars they jingle in their trousers.
So. fortunes fit past them like there
last hours of 1905, and with the
same results.
"Now, this great copper property
! / have optioned to southern syn
dicate for the small sum ofS100.OOO,
1 about one-ifth of its present value.
They have a few days yet 10 examine
the property, and, if they let there
flew little snow tlurries delay their
| time until the option is out, then
they will realize that procrastina-
ton is the thief of success, and will
moi get The option renewed at that
price.
"Have you realized thata thought.
study Of the parting year, that it
applies 10 our business opportum-
ties. just as well as to our spiritual
welfare? Tomorrow will too late
to write 1905" again on our letter
heads. We can not count the pulse
beats Of tomorrow, as that of today.
They may be similar, but they are
beating each day nearer the grave.
Thus the business opportunities we
let pass for want of time, money or
brains, are gone as the aeeting year
of 1905. A similar year may be ap-
preaching, with similar opportuni-
ties: the future we know not. Let
this be as it may, / wish you all the
sunshine of happiness that could be
bestowed upon the angels during
1906.
@Wnh the last hours of 1905. ]
close my last letter for the year, but
remain your friend similar to the
posi-. With the same kind regards, !
am the same image.
Respectfully,
81. C. GAWTHROP.
December 81, 19o5.@