Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-03-30
SEEMS RIDICULOUS
THOUGH It ISN'T
A Reasonable Accounting For An APP
parently Unnatural Condition OF
Things.

A lot Of people wonder why it is
that so many strikes Of ore showing
good values, assayinG from so f. 800
ton are being made in western Ari-
IONA now, when the same country has
been run over for years and years by
good prospectors without anybody get
ting excited about it. The same obser-
walton can be made with equal force
in respect of any section where a big
strike has been reported.
At first blush it does look a little
odd. even ridiculous. but there is moth
ing ridiculous about il nor is it likely
that any considerable number of the
ore finds are other than what they are
reported to be The changed condition
is not in the mineral fields but in the
public mind, a fact the reader will ad-
NIT If he pauses a few minutes for re-
Election.
To illustrate during the last two or
three years. since the mineral region
under consideration has been opened up
for convenient prospecting. The Re
publican has recorded. at a safe esti-
mate. a hundred strikes OF 500 ore.
and so far as it has discovered. not
one of them was a fake. But that is
all there was to IL. The stories were
printed, a few people read them and
passed them by. refusing to get cx-
cited, knowing il takes money to work
a mine and they were not capitalists.
There are probably a hundred good
prospects in evidence out in that coun-
try now, with 800 ore in some guam
tity. in sight and i'm place. some Of
which will claim attention under the
present changed conditions There are
probably ten times that many that can
be found by diliCent scach and that
if found today would receive attention
where three months ago they would
have attracted but little interest.
Everybody knows that the big mines
are most often made by the investment
Of large capital in properties showing
orc that is quite mediocre. but which
have the demonstrated quantity"
Everybody knows that a big showing
Of $40 ore viii make a big mine if it
IS worked. but in ordinary times no.
| body gets interested in promoting such
a mine except the prOspector and the
big capitalist. who is too scarce an ar
ticle in the mining field. But while
everybody knows these things. few I'M
der normal conditions. studiously con-
slider the facts.
But let some one stumble on a bo-
nanza where the gold almost mines it
self and people get excited They are
keyed up to full realization IF pos
sibilities. a 800 strike made under
such a state of the public mind at
| tracts attention. II is worth more than
the same strike would be at other
times merely because the attention of
real mining men, men who have money
to put into mines. is attracted to the
district. and these men can be inter
ested. where under other circumstances
they would merely turn down the
prOspcctor with the remark that they
had heard all that story before The
real benefit that will come to Arizona
by the Arizona Northern strike is not
the gold that comes out of that mine.
but that hundred. perhaps a
thousand. big mining men. will
come here trying to edge into
it some way. and discovering that
they can't, will be tickled to death TO
get hold Of some of the 800 strikes
they have been reading about for sew
eral years past and imagining they
were fakes.
And another reason why there are
more finds. is that there are mor<
people looking for them