Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-04-14
The MAN WHO LEADS THE VAN

The man with an imagination
the man who lies sleepless at night
and had walking dreams of the
things he will dos the man who
has always led the van. Some
times we have said Of such an n
that he lives ahead of his time but
there must evei be torchbeaIers
who light the way.
And imbued with the same spirit
is the prospeCtor, the miner, the
engineer, the inventor-the men
VINO. together, have made the
mines of the void. When the
news came of the discoveries in
the Klondyke what an outpouring
of men and money at once sturmed
the icy gates of the Arctic Circle.
When the ews came of the find
ing of gold on the beach at Nome
there followed another outpouring
of men and money and a city was
built by the frozen sea. We will
recall two bachelor brothers in
New York. men of wealth. and
retired from active business and
yet who actually financed an
Alaskan expedition at an initial
cost to them of more than $50. 600.
Gold dredges are workin. away
in every gold bearing country in
the world, but the men who first
planned and the men who first put
in the money, must have done so
entirely on faith "the substance of
things hoped for the evidence of
things unseen
The mar who grub staked a pro-
spector is financing a search for
treas ure and the mar who packs
his burro and turns his hopeful
eyes to the desert or mountain is
imbued with the same spiri as the
inventor or crusader desire 10
find and a determination to con-
quer.
And every man of them feels
that whatever he discovers will
add that much TO the general well
fare-that the world and all the
people in it will be better off BE-
cause he has put forth his effort.
The prOspector takes a justi-
fable pride in his calling. It must
he borne in mind that the men he
associates with most are likewise
prospectors and that his judgment
and credibility are being constant
~ weighed in the balance by other
men who are entirely CO npetent
to pass judgment. In his various
trips he meets a good many diff
ferent men of his own chosen
calling and with each he i'll have
a perfectly natural human desire
to stand well as a prospecter.
In most instances the pr 1spector
is working on his own clpi al and,
even il working on a grIbstake,
he could not afford to take other
men in 10 see a prospect thai would
not pass muster. Under develop
ment, it may not prove to be
valuable enough to work, but you
can depend upon it that il was an
holsst prospect on the surface or
he would never have giyrn it a
second thought. He started out
on his trio to find something worth
owning and nothing less will
answer. Every man Of them
knows of dozens Of place where
there are not many pros 'cts he
will advise you to work. lie may
bclive the others are good but he
only tells you to go in where he
felIs that he knows.
Oar observation has convinced
us that no one need hesitate to put
money into development work. to
determine what is there, at least
AS a usual thing, II you furnish.the
grub he will do all the work, as
far as he an, alone and at no
further expense to you, Surely
slc.i men are worthy of confidence
and the men who have believed in
them and stood by them have made
money.