Weekly journal-miner., 1911-10-11

and there is a quite general pros peeting for damsites. Wherever a damsite is found, a placer mining pro- ! iect is feasible here, and this is be- ing generally recognized now.
 The history of the financing of a mine is sometimes tragie-and so it has been with Sanger. He went to Boston and presented his proposition to a wide-awake business man who endorsed it and said he would furnish the funds. Sanger went to see him a day of so after, and found him on a sofa in his office, somewhat under the weather; but he said he would be all right in a day or two, and that if Sanger would call at 10 O. clock Friday morning he would have the papers drawn for signature and the check ready. Friday morning Sanger received an invitation to at tend this mans funeral, he having died meanwhile. There was another man who had the money and was go- ing to put it into the placer mine. His wife, however, learned that he wasn't true to her and she raised such a deuce of a row that he gave up all thoughts of anything but the divorce court. Then one day while taking a needed rest at Grand Can yOn. Sanger met a man from Chicago, who casually remarked, "So you are in the gold brick business?" Sanger said he was and the man said he was going to Phoenix on his way home and that he would go out and look at it. He did so, and wrote Sanger that when the latter got to Chicago he would like to have him call at his office. So, some time later the Sangers reached Chicago. and the afternoon before they were going away he called on the business man. As he entered the door of the man s office he said. |" To. Sanger. Here's check for $25OO in your gold brick seheme-it looks good to me-" And thus it is-yOu are sure of a thing and it don't work, and again you have no hope and it's all right. Not long ago some bankers were to make loan to Sanger to assist in the putting in of the first dam; but they wanted such tremendous rake-Off the mine manager wouldn't take their money-and he walked out of the bank and met an entire stranger from Globe. who went to the mine, looked the property over thoroughly, and then and there put up the money for the dam-and they re now putting it in.
 Way out here on the desert, four miles from living water, is the LOtO- wana mine GOtowana means dawn of the morning). It is a pretty camp. well appointed, with every comfort The Sangers had a lot of experience in Alaska. and they have had enough of the sour dough busi- ness. So they have a number of ex- cellent houses. the stock is well cared for, they have a dandy Jap cook, and altogether it is as pleasant a camp as I ever was in. The ground has always been open to any kind of inspection, and this is the reason I have given so much time to the prop erty. because the conditions are ex- actly the same over great area here, and if this is so good there is lot more. LOtOwana will be the biggest placer mine on this continent in six months-but there will be great many others in this section, though none so large, possibly. The little man has a good chance here, and he is taking advantage of it right now. This placering means revival of their branch of the in- dustry throughout the arid section, there are many placers where water may be conserved as readily as here, and where the ground will pay hand sOmely.