The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-01-25

The majority of people who are not
engaged in mining operations have but
a vague conception of the many diff
ficulties which attend the development
of a mine or prospect and especially
when such properties are located some
distance from railroad facilities. and
where it is some times lmost impossi-
BILE to secure transportation advantages.
After a prospect is found. be it ever
so good, 1t often requires a period of
from two to five years before 1t can be
paced on a regular paying basis, ever
though the owners are possessed or am
pie capital, says Salt Lake Mining Re-
view. And yet there are those, who,
making an investment in mining propo-
sitions, expect material returns within
six months or a year.
h class, ever though it's members
may be of broad gauge and ready to go
into their pockets to meet every require
ment of mine development and equip
ment. are impatient for quick results
and for the simple reason that they dc
not understand conditions in the min
ing camps of the west and this impa-
thence is frequently very embarrassing to
the mine management n to those who
are striving to push operations econom-
ically and to the best possible advan-
tage.
The writer has known OF mining en-
terprises where the work seemed to
drag interminably; n yet 1t has since
transpired that the management and
o~ficials Of such companies nave strug-
gled heroically with difficulties and
hardships which would have completely
discouraged and disheartened men OF
less sterner mold; men who would have
proclaimed 1t an utter impossibility to
overcome certain conditions existing In
mining operations.
One of the greatest obstacles to sue
cessful mining during the past winter
and spring has been the im~passabiiity
of the roads leading to many of our min
ing camps and Districts; camps and dis
tricts where work in mine development
must be regularly maintained In order
to comply with the terms OF options
and bonds, or to obey the instructions OF
eastern managers, who living in luxury
and ease in New York or Boston, I'M
agine that to accomplish certain results
the only thing required is for them to
give the order.
Thu Indian said: TT is easy to see
the white man now" 1t Is also easy
for an eastern manag to a DO this
and do that" to issue orders for ore
shipments, for the equipment of mining
property; but 1t is another thing. en-
tirely, for the superintendent to comply
with these orders, no matter how much
he may desire to obey such m
to the letter.
During the past six months the mater
of TRANSPORTATION to interior and isolated
camps has been a serious one. 1t has
often required three days to freight In
a light load of supplies and provisions
over a road thirty miles in length; and
even then, the teams have been stalled
in the mud. wagons have been broken
horses Injured, and the drivers have hac
to camp out over night in snowstorms
and rain, and have been compelled TO en-
dure almost every hardship imaginable
in order to get INTO camp with the sup
plies consigned to their care 4. Sucf
cas- es are not at all isolated. and the at
tendant expense seems enormous u
those who, sitting by cheerful hresides
cannot understand why so much none!
Is being spent in the development OF
mere prospect, or why 1t IL that or
shipments nave not been made that wer
virtually promised by the management
six months before; why 1t is that tn
railroads are several weeks behind 4
the delivery of mine supplies and ma
chinery. or why communication with tn
mines has been interrupted.
The man who has not the Aptience o
a Job should steer clear OF mining In al
it's branches and phases. If he Is en-