Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1914-03-27
1T REQUIRES STAYING
QUALITIES TO MINE

The business of mining, while il
has every advantage inherent in al
other lines Of effort, has also some
few that are peculiarly its own.
Looking at the industry from
the standpoint of purely systema'
tized commercialism and disre.
garding the element of speculation
1.-THE factor which makes mining
attractive to the majority of the
human race,) it can be truthfully
and consistently said that no man
who enters the field and persistent
Observation-Disclosures the occupa-
tion fails to ultimately win its re-
wards, says the Denver Mining Re-
core.
The Success Microbe is an elus-
i've little beast. He has a way Of
alighting in the most unexpected
places and at startling unforeseen
times. Again, like the Irishman's
flea, many times "Ye put yer
hand aim i'm an he amt there
but none the less the man who goes
into mining-and stays there
eventually makes money and not
infrequently piles up a handsome
fortune.
We're it possible to get back into
the lives of practically everyone
of the great and lesser mining
magnates of today, stories of strug-
giles with poverty, privation and
hardship utterly incompatible with
their present affluence would be
forthcoming.
Senator w. A. Clark, for in
stance, gives an intensely interest
ing account of what happened to
him before his Butte holdings start
ed him on the road to great wealth,
and the United Verde followed this
up with its recorded profits of a
million a month.
Denver holds a multitude of men
whose individual incomes from the
ore business and it's allied indus
trles range all the way from fairly
comfortable to six figures.
A. D. Parker, for example, who
is just now in the limeliGht owing
to wealth recently acquired and
still accumulating, is reputed to
have grubstaked his prospector COL
league for twenty long years be-
fore they finally struck it in the
mine. John Campion is
another multi-millionairc who
the feel of a pick handle. A.
E. Reynolds could make you sit
and listen for hours at a time--if
he woodland every other mining
man who has long since quit W orry
ing about the eats could recount
acts concerning himself which would
surely surprise those whose nc.
quaintances with him is of com.
parative]y recent origin.
The host of men, while not in
tho plutocratic class, draw substan'
tial revenues from the mines is fal
larger than is generally known Of
believed, but every single one o.
them owes his success to his abilit,
to stick.
One Of the adyan tages referred
as being peculiarly characteristic
of mining is the fact that there |
no commodity that runs into none.
60 fast as reasonably good ore no
is there any other product not 3
rectly Influenced by the cost Of il
production. A manufacturer,
double his output, must at ono
provide a larger factory, increas
his selling costs and all his othe
expenses; a merchant to do n lars
er business, has to Immediately Il
up a larger capital in stock an
multiply his expenses all along IL
line; q farmer, to handle a create
acreage, must acquire more lunt
more equipment, hut it costs r
more to mine and market ore wort
500 q ton than it docs to produt
an equal quantity worth $40 a to.
In all other lines of endeavor
which men labor long and contin
ally profits accumulate gradual
but your mine operate usual