The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-12-09
The PrOspectOr and His Burro.
From the Mining RevIom.

Ore ana the money IT brings, and | do
not care at all whether my name gets
into the paper or whether it shall ever
be mentioned in the same breath with
that Of CLARK, Heinze or the Gulgen
helms. What | want is ore.
and this man is getting the ore
For years he has been almost hermit
in the hills. lie located 10 district
that looked good to him. and here he
stuck like leach When others be-
came discouraged he chung to bis beliefs
regarding the camp For months he
was as near the starvation stage as the
tare player is to making stake.
He dug when others stood on the dump
and laughed at him. At last he struck
it big Some of the ore was OF high
grade, and this he sacked, all by his
own lonesome, and shipped to the smelt-
ers. More recently he has managed to
get little mill on the ground, and
with this he is treating about thirty
tons Of good milling ore daily. His
bank account is Increasing steadily, lie
is blocking out more and more ore in
his mine, he will soon be able to in
crease his mill capacity, pnt on more
men and in due time, his mine will be
classed as one Of the bonanza mining
propositions in this intermountain re
gion.
And" continued the prospector, &
he has never tried to sell share Of
stock he has not made an appeal to the
outside world for financial aid. he has
had no gold bricks for sale, and he
has not tried to milk the public. He
was mining for ore and he got it. This
man was a pusher, a thoroughbred
miner, and he has no hookworms in his
feet.
"You want to know something about
hookworms? Well, | win tell you
about them. According to the new
translation Of the Rockefeller Bible,
man, if he feels lazy, has a feeling Of
lassitude, an inclination to shirk work ];
if be has hungry feeling Of emptiness,
he IS afflicted with hookworms. The
hookworm generally get in.o the sys.
tenn through the feet, probably because
the victim generally moves them so
slowly, much as Finn miner mopes
along when going on shift. Then it
works mp to the vital parts and attaches
itself to an alimentary canal near the
solar plexus and proceeds to rob the
body of the nourishment necessary to
the well-being Of its victim, who slowly.
but surely begins to pine away uRti be
is hardly more than skeleton. This
man, Rockefeller would say, has bad
case of hookworms.'
"Of COURSE continued the prospect
or, this really has nothing to do with my
story. And yet it is fact that many
miners and prospectors | know of seem
to have d bad attack Of hookworm.
They may not be aware of the fact, but
they show the presence of this dreaded
disease in their daily walk, in their
daily work. They are SO weak that
when they have pick poised in the air
ready for stroke they barely have
strength to let it down. And SO it re-
mains in the air, as if held there by an
invisible hand, for a period during
which a vigorous and interested
miner would break down several hun
dred pounds OF ore. The attack is so
bad that a ten-year-old boy could beat
him in mucking out after a shift, and
then have an hour to spare in which to
run down a iack-rabbit or coyote; and
regret to say, the hookworm disease is
becoming quite prevalent in some of the
mining camps OF the west.
81 want to tell you, Old Long Ears, !"
concluded the prospector. the success
full mining man referred to in the be-