Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-04-13

that your grey matter is sadly deficient;
for, as a matter of fact, the whole
future of mining enterprise depends
almost as much upon the mental atti-
tude of an operator as upon the intrin-
sic value of the property itself. Ina
CINE, if you will, prospector trying to
interest capital who only sees the
gloomy side of things. Who is willing
to admit that the showing is pretty
good, but who questions the proposition
of its holding out. Who hates to climb
the mountain sides, and who becomes
Disguised with mining in all its
branches. Imagine man of this
stamp, if you can, and then figure out
what chances he would have of selling
a, mine or prospect even, if it were SO
CHI that it would set an ordinary pros
pector crazy if he had one like it. Such
pessimist, in my opinion, might as
we'll try to do business with stone
wall as with the ordinary mining in
weston, for he would freeze the marrow
bones in the investor before he had
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will but notice, you will see that the
enthusiastic man with q magnetism
equal to a 40-horsepower electric bat
terry that draws great lunches of the
long green from the pockets of the
capitalist, and not the Gloomy Gus,
who is ashamed of the patches on the
seat of his pants and who herds him
self up at his little gold mine, which is
really a bonanza if he only had more
faith in it.
II see that you look little hurt
about my reference to your chesty feel
ings, and fact that you are again con-
sorting with that disreputable. lop
cared jack" continued the prospector,
land want to know why l feel inclined
to throw cold water on your claim of
being a genuine, blow-in-th the bottle
optimist. But, you need not take the
matter seriously or personally; none
whatever; my only object being to
show you the difference, between the
real optimist and the pessimist; and
how the,f former usually meets with sue
cess, while the later is invitably doomed
to failure, and is a hodoo generally.
Not so many years ago l happened into
camp in an isolated section where two
prospectors owned claims on the same
ledge. One of these was cheerful
and persistent fellow who met me with
open hands and cordially told his. camp
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heart, at once. by giving you gener-
GUS feed of barley, and had smile on
his face that won't come off. The
other prospector merely gave me his
hand, which was as cold and as heavy
as full-fiedged ham. He seemed to be
vi affected with an acute intestinal trouble
! intimately associated with carefully
and tenderly cultivated crouch. He
: stood around with his hands in his
f pockets as silent as sphinx. while the
f first prospector prepared steaming
, hot and appetizing meal, and soon left
n for his own camp without saying a
word. Both of these men had perform
, ed some work on their claims. Both
, had opened up remarkably fine ore.
o Our host told US all about his, but the
s other never opened his mouth about his
p holdings. While / was in the camp a
mining man of some means came along.
He looked at the prospect Of the first
prospector, who showed him everything
he could, and was so sanguine that the
> ore-shoot would go down that the
would-be investor became deeply i'm
f pressed with the possibilities of the
S proposition. He also went over to the
d prospect of the grouchy man, but he
: never got farther than the dump
u where he was met by the owner who
a told him that he had but little faith il
u its future, as he feared the deposit was
e not permanent, and that, in his opinion
e the formation of the country NIGH
). possibly be unfavorable for ore deposi
n ton Before leaving the camp thu
e mining man made deal with the frs
# prospecter. Men were at once put tt
s. work, machinery was installed, and il
e less than a year the mine was on pro
It ducing and paying basis. AS for tn
a other prospector, he is still Flooding
Y away on his prospect, which was jus
e as good, if not better than the groun
y adjoining him. He really wants to sell
a but his personality is such that he can
e not get in touch with financial assis
y lance, and he is so disagreeable that h