The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-05-16
vHY HAVE IDLE MINES?
he Curse Of the Country has
been the Mismanascm
BY lncompetents.


al helts in the country surrounds
hlmon City. There is no longer any
built about the extent and richness
the ore bodies. The question pre-.
knts itself to the effect that We have
ut few good mines, and why? just
ecause we have but few practical
nd experienced mining men.
Good mines must be made just as
Ether good business propositions must
be built up with consummate care in
very step OF their progress of devei-
pment. The inexperienced man
OCld not run even hog ranch in
hese times of competition with any
ertainty OF success. While mining
perhaps the most certain of all
gestments when ever detail OF the
evelopment OF the business is under
tactical control, it imposes more
enalties for blundeIs than almost
ny other business.
The idle mills in this country are
all monuments to gross mismanage-
.ment, at some stage of the develop
Iment of the business enterprise OF
which they mark the tomb of buried
hopes. This fact is susceptible OF
positive demonstration. The mis-.
take of mill without ore or a mill
that will not treat the ore of any
particular mine. is mnoument oil
crime, at least of no less degree than
criminal ignorance.
The man vino promotes the build
| ing of mill before body OF orr
#that assures a profit is developed
measured up and tested, is an enemy
Ito the interests of the community
land guilty of a fraudulent act toward
|those who invest in his enterprise.
Mining is the safest and most re
munerative Investment of the husi
ness world today. The only legiti
*inate task in the mining business i
#the primary cost of the labor to opel
up prospect to the discovery o
payable ore in place. Whenever goo'
pre is found in prospect il pays it
May through every step Of its devel
<Opment, to the boon Of a producing
mine. 1t may be safely said tina
every great expenditure upon a min
that does not bring returns is an in
stance OF malicious fraud or inexcus
#ahle ignorance in business manage
ment.
The accurate knowledge of minera
occul renee, methods of treatment
and the cost OF reduction in this ag
Euf progress remove all excuses 70
Barge expenditure without certain re
tuIns.
The criminal ignorance OF operator
In the Salmon district has been
reat retarding influence. Glarin
Iilures have been made OF some
he greatest mines in the Unite
tates today, by the incompeteue
the men in charge Of the proper
ies This subject is truly matte
bf public concern.
The citizen of Salmon should be
poster for the mining interests
instead the average business ma
Jas followed the incompetent ope
tor with bis sympathies. The ma
tho should be a booster is knockt
lust because of his sympathy for tn
pan whose ignorance has caused n
allure.
There is more mineral wealth su
bounding Salmon than there
Rround Butte OF Goldield. Tn
wealth lies dormant as penalty Il
ignorance and fraud in management
The most potent influence OF the
ineXcusable failures is the effect u
on the local people. If the Salmt
people had the faith that their coul
Try deserves and would boost as pc
sistently as they knock now we wou
have great boom inside OF thr
months.