Mohave County miner., 1910-02-12
An EpistIe to the Stoney-Hearted
 Investor.

An old timer who has lived long enough in the mining regions of the West to have faith in their continued wealth-making possibilities, and who has had his share of experience in seeking to install this faith into the purses of eastern capital, recently amused himself by framing up what we may call little classic in the form of letter to an imaginary investor. It was not for use, or even for pub lication, although it happens to have come in the way of The Record to pub fish it. It was doubtless the product of that momentary sentiment which men sometimes have, that they are possessed of really valuable secret or truth for which the world should be the gainer-'but the world receives it not" Accordingly this letter will be found written in the most gentle and forgiving spirit and in style the most chaste, for there is not within the whole of it a single example of a word with more than one syllable. The author of this epistle to the skep- tical investor lives in a mining dis | trict some hundreds of miles away from Denver. Never mind who he is. Here is the letter:
 My Dear Sir: If you are of my kind, as hope, I want to know you, and have you know me; need help to get bag of gold that is in sight, here, and if you will lend this help there may be wealth in it for us both.
 II live in the land where gold comes from, where it grows, or is, and where it can be had by any man with the nerve. strength, and tools to dig for it. All the gold in the world, and all that has been lost in the seas, came this way, through the hands of the man with the pick. There is no way else.
 ''As said, want you to help me get some of this gold, we can see, and I will take care that your share comes to you, in full, though your help be small.
 "Why I should need you, or your aid, in so plain work, is that it takes tools, and a camp, and a "roll" to pay the men. Picks and drills, and such like things, cost, and we must have them. The gold will not come from its rock bed for a song, it has to be made come by force, and force must be bought and paid for, or you can't start it; but once get the start, on good gold ground, and it then means a stream of gold, for one and for all.
 ''I don't want you to think have SC poor a sense Of you as to tell you We shall get rich in a day-at least, not but by a stroke of great good luck, which, of course, might come any time-but I will say that we can get a part of this gold at once, and that the pile will grow, and grow fast; the world was not made in a day, and if we can't get all we want this week, we can the next. The main thing is that gold be got, that they may not count us with the "dead ones'' and the time and place to get it is when the time is ripe and the place right: both of these are here, now. Should any man doubt this, and say there is some place else than gold mines where gold may be had, with less funds to start on, or that is half so good for you and for me, he don't know of what he talks; but I, who am on the spot, day and night, do know, and what say is truth, straight as I can make it.
 ''If you want gold, and would just as soon get it with me as with some one you now know, write to me, and learn more of this chance. Gold has the first call of wealth, and yet, gold is free, free as air, at it's source; it is there for him who will but buy the tools and dig it, and take it, and own it, and keep it, or spend it as he please. New, clean, gold is a gift. When sought gold comes but for the price of tools and work, and tons, and tons, on top of tons, go out in the world, year by year, to make men rich; and your chance and my chance, from the ground in gold land, is as good as that of any man who lives. Coin or bar, gold-all gold-was got, first hands, by the same kind of ways