The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-01-05
HAS UNDEvEIoPsD TERRITORY
Inyo County Offers Good Chances for
the Prospector


There was a time not many years ago
when few mining men visited OF care |
to visit the counties along the Nevada
California line owing to their remote
ness from avenues of travel or trans
portation, but great discoveries like
those Of Tonopah and Goldfeld are
bound to attract men to almost any
quarter of the globe; but even these
great strikes will not keep the great
army of mining men supplied with pros
poets and mines.
This considerable army of mining
men. that we see traveurg every min
ing section of the Pacific slope, are of
all kinds and characters. There are
those few who are in quest of only
large properties and those of a devel-
oped character on the one hand, an
the man of limited means who hopes n
find a prospect of sufficient merit to
Justify the expenditures of a few hun
bred dollars, on the other hand. The
latter class and those more nearly ap-
preaching his class than the influential
expert, are the pioneers in any new
country and should not be despised. All
mines do not show their true colors on
the surface. Take the history of the
great Mispah vein of Tonopah, it is
fact that the surface showing after sew
avail OoOptho urnrE r-ao not o,fGa,apt -,
justify the then asking price of $780,
600, that is in the opinion of three eer-
tain experienced mining men.
Experienced teaches the expert eau
ton and sometimes this caution is ex-
nrcised to his sorrow. Ignorance often
makes "fools rush in where angels fear
to tread' and sometimes it must be all
mitted, to their sorrow likewise. But
after all we need men of less skill and
more nerve in any new section and his
is often the greatest reward. +
In mining we must have both classes,
the skilled engineer to pass upon the
property held at high figures, and the
price of the mine should influence the
character and extent of the examina-
tion, and justly so, but on the other
hand there are many looking for a min
ing investment who nave not the means
to handle a big thing even if they
should stumble upon it. And many
good average properties and even the
greatest today, made but a sorry show
ing during the first days of their his
tory.
During the last six months a consid-
cradle number of prospectors have
crossed the Nevada California line and
have done some good work in the
rugged and lofty ranges that make Up
the greater part of eastern Inyo county.
Discoveries of gold, some silver, and
good showings of copper and lead have
been made and added to a promising
list of such properties that have been
known for some time in our county.
the severe test of expert examination,
while some will, but hundreds of these
prospects would receive a considerable
amount of attention in other mining
sections. From the long list no DOUBT
many great properties could be devel-
oped. Here is a field for the small
man, the man with a few thousands, for
prices are usually moderate and terms
of a satisfactory character can be oo-
tanned.
This day is not far distant for COM
paratively unprospected areas like ours
are few and growing fewer every day
and to the pioneer will come the great
est profit from the smallest investment.
Numbers beget an enthusiasm that is
contagious and this enthusiasm is what
makes men do things. Few men care
to start an enterprise until someone
has shown the way. When Goldfeld
was young and the experienced engi-
neer could not see enough to justify
him or his friends taking hold, the man
of small means dug holes and uncoy-
cred the wealth that everyone, lnclul-
ing the engineer must admit is there
today. So with Inyo county, the man
of small capital must suffer the trials
of starting, the inconvenience of living
without comforts to make a surface
showing for the bigger man who will
undoubtedly come later. His will be
~
the hardship and his will be the great
est reward, measured in dollars and
cents.-Inyo Independent.