Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-01
MINING MEN AT Fl PASO
 IN \ BUNCH
Puite a Gathering of the Big- gest Guns in the Southwest at Pass City Saturday Start Tongues WaggIng.
(By an Old Timer)

 asked. There was Dr. Ricketts of the tsreene-CaRanea company at Cananeas James Douglas of the Moctezuma Cop ger company at NacozaTi: Donald Gil iles of the San Toy at Santa Eulaiia; L. W. Powell of the Calumet and Ari- zona at Bisbee. and a lot of smaller Ty, and all here at the same time. Such a gathering of the mining clans has not been seen here for a long time, and yet it is without the ken of men if they all ever met or no. Anyhow, it made the "city miners talk. There is not much doing in the city mines, however, except that one of the clan is discoursing eloquently on a. new property he is floating-"the most wonderful mineral showing in the world, where we only need to buy shovels and dynamite" He is. it is reported. making good. gathering in the shekels for development"
 sometimes a Teller reels like he ought to take q whack at the city guys There's an expert here that I've heard about who sai5 that he had passed the enthusiastic stage, and that he would mot approve of any property where he failed to see ore enough ia sight to at least pay for the surface development and the little machinery necessary to go some reasonable depth He gave one the idea-that was his intention, for sure-that he wouldn't lead any old body to shake loose from any of their mazuma with out gild-edged surety that it'd come a-pollin' in about leven times faster'n results figure out with Standard Oil coupon Well, this here wise one had a Announcement down in old Mexico somewhere on which he is said to have interested a lot of eastern peo- pIe-and the last l heard of that spe- cial property was that the bit of machinery was for sale for whatever it would bring, and that there wasn't enough ore in sight to choke taran- IGla.
 Some times when get into Elpas like to fidgit around where everything is summed up in more than six fig ures and l sure struck The right spot the other day Teller came in from Goldfield (Nevada camp, understand |, and he lit in without delay. Pulled a specimen out of his pocket about as big as half a tortilla that was worth twenty simoleons, easy. Twas GOV cred, and peppered, and lousy with gold. Twas (this is his averment) from the muck after the last shot in a mine he owned just between the four greatest nloney-making mines {more of his confaburation) in the world What the ore would go he couldn't tell, but he was miner enough to know that this muck, or what would be called waste up in Nevada, would run some. Well twas as intrGstin' to me as a couple of pages out of Jules Verne. But I glinpsed across the room, and darned if feller wasn't settin' there with his mouth wide open ard his eyes just glintin' with axarice-and I could almost see his tight purse-strings unloosein' all right, and then he said he'd gathered in Fl Paso because it WIS such fine place and he wished to ease himself up a bit after the strenGosity of Goldheids, and that he'd been treated so alfred square here that he was going to let some of the good fellers in. He couldn't at first think Of lettin' loose Of sure thing, but as it was bigger one man. oughter handle by his lone some, he was going to loosen up bit of if. Well. sir that feller only want ed to sell about $5000 worth of his stock (oh. you bet he had the pretty SLGGk lG HIS hGlAELy A-- 4@- I~oc he stayed here three days and sold more than s12,000 worth. If anybody has heard from him since he left the village there's others who haven't but the good old dough went with him Gol6feld's a winner-sure to be when she's got men like that feller.
 But, geewhiz. If there wasn't pro moters in this world there wouldn' be any need for suckers and then mavbe, the man with legitimate pro position wouldn't have such thunder in hard row to hoe And so l can say as I'm agin 'eni-thoUgh it doe: make a fssiff5T ifssiiff5T sorteT cuss bit to SCI a stranger come in and take the breaC and butter out of his mouth Bar nurnss memory will always be reveret and his proverbs will outlast eternit! -at least, so long as there shall D an United States.
 i don't know whether I'm an opu mist or a pesslmist-but l will admi that sometimes I try to forget the dii ference between the meaning or th'
 words. Now, take for instance company with a nice little propert, down there near you-al. 1t has go some ore on the dumps and some nor inside and underground. But the man agement is going to pieces on tn question of how big plant they shal put in, instead of how small. Wat the use buyin' Prince Albert if yol haven't got a ,aundered white shirt wats the use orderin' a dimund fril If you can't pay for it when the felle brings it homer expect these thing from the people w-o never saw hol in the ground that wasn't made b prairie dogs, but when it's done b folks whose lives have been spent i the mountains and whose every el pression bears the imprint of tn camp. then I'm inclined to be pess Histic. They almost can't win, TUT min at that gait
 see you-all have played up ths railroad surveyin gang to fnis lately. and every railroad builder O
 scur stan has fingered 1t all out. Vel if seems to me that maybe it might D me fIrtherin' of the plan lately al nounced by the Mexican governmer to connect the west with the east thai republic. and as f was said son
 months ago that the Mexican g9vs T -ne7f had granted Hartman the rigf TO build line frora Juarez 10 Nogaie --tbis might be that very thing. Ha
 riman's tryin' to own the railroads