The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-28
NJ Decline in Prospecting

The Mining and Engineering World has lost patience
with the talk recently, OF the decline OF prospecting and
in the current issue takes to task what it terms the "profes-
siona1, acknowledged, sky-scraper mining engineers in
other words, those who do their mining in the big cities.
Among other things the Mining World says:
There has been no decline in prospecting at all; it
may be true that a few of the states have been neglected
for other newer or more favored fields; but on the whole.
when they are all added up, it will be found that there are
really more men engaged in looking for mineral
today than there has been for years, or at leas:
since those who now berate the honorable calling of the
prospector have been out OF short pants.
1T is not that there is a shortage OF prospecting or OF
good prospects, but on the other hand, if there is any let
up in mining at all, it is due to other causes.
Zone of the causes, if we were called upon to express
an opinion, is the lack of real mining men. Not that we
are really admitting that there is any let-up, but there are
less of the old school of mining, those who swore by and
at the prospector and his prospect, in the business today
In the old days the prospector could cash IN his prospect
.fOr enough to get another grub-stake and be away on his
journey looking for another. Those were the days OF Tev-
$50 Brien- Hearst TIaggin-Daly and dozens of others, the
DAYS of individual mining. Every one of them left mil
lions; every cent came out of the ground. Every cent of
the great Clark fortune has been made in mining, and he
is about the last of the old school of great pioneers left"
1.-The smart man of today, backed up by Mr.. Yellow
legs referred to. wants the ore all blocked out, and cannot
be induced to put his money into a prospect. That's one
reason why SO many good looking prospects are lying
idle today. However, the prospector continues to do his
annual assessment work, and let us hope he will be tor
tunate enough to uncover sufficient good quartz in this
work that the expert will be able to discern the eaE-
marks of an ore deposit SO that he will be enabled to know
that it is a mineral claim and at least worthy of develop
ment into a mine.
1--WE have but little atience with the city mining en-
gineer who decries the decline in prospecting or the IN
dustrv. Our advice to him would be to get out into the
field and knock his knuckes against the rock, and with his
superior knowledge OF formation and ore deposition.
where mineral is and where it is not. or where he thinks 1t
ought to be, it should be an easy matter for him to uncover
the hidden wealth. as we'll as become independent as
nearly every one OF the old timers did in the early days
Mining and Scientific Press: Confession OF Boris
Thomson clears the mystery regarding recent fires at
Goldfield and Tonopah, and fixes the responsibility upon
the l. w. w. of which ThomasOn has been a leader In the
mining districts and at Stockton, California. Thomson
has been sent to the penitentiary for twenty years, but
the |. w. w. as a trouble making organization is still at
large. We have every sympathy for the men now out OF
work, many OF whom are recruited to the ranks of the |. W
w.. but the first function of a civilized government is to
maintain order. and we do not believe that the way to better
things is thrC ,2h "rch means as the /. w. w. has adopted.
we believe that quick. determined work of the officers
of the law will forestall much of such trouble. We would
not like to look forward to living under martial law, but
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