Valdez daily prospector., 1914-03-28
SATURDAY, MARCH 2S, 1914.
REWARDS OF MINING GO TO THE
 MEN WHO STICK TO TT.

other lines of effort, has also some few that are peculiarly it's own, says the Denver Mining Record.
 Looking at the industry from the standpoint of purely systematized commercialism and disregarding the element of speculation (the factor which makes mining attractive to the majority of the human raceD it can be truthfully and consistently said that no man who enters the field and ly-doggedly the occupation fails to. ultimately, win it's rewards:
 The Success Microbe is an elusive little beast. He has a way of aliht- ing in the most unexpected places and at startling unforeseen times. Again, like the Irishman's flea. many times "Ye put yer hand ahn i'm an he aint there! !"-but none the less, the man who goes into mining and stays there eventually makes money and not infrequently piles up handsome for tune.
 Were it possible to get back into the lives of practically every one of the great-and lesser mining mag mates of today, stories of struggles with poverty, privation and hardship utterly incompatible with the present affluence of these same men would be forthcoming.
 Senator w. A. Clark for instance, gives an intensely interesting account of what happened to him before his Butte holdings started him on the road to great wealth and the United Verde followed this up with it's rec orded profits of a million month.
 Denver hold multitude of men whose individual incomes from the ore business and it's allied industries range all the way from fairly com fortable" to six figures
 A. D. Parker for example. who is just now in the lime light owing to wealth recently acquired and still ac-- cumulating, is reputed to have grub staked" his prospector colleague for twenty long years before they finally struck it" in the Florence mine. John Campion is another multi-millionaire who knows the feel of pick handle. A, E. Reynolds could make you sit and listen for hours at time-f he would-and every other mining man who has long since quit worrying about the eats" could recount facts concerning himself which would sure ly surprise those whose acquaintance with him is of comparatively recent origin
 The host of men who, while not in the plutocratic class, draw substantial revenues from the mines is far larger than is generally known or believed, but every single one of them owes his success to his ability to stick.
 One of the advantages referred to as being peculiarly characteristic of
 
 commodity that runs into money so fast as reasonably good ore nor is there any other product not directly influenced by the cost of it's pro- duction. A manufacturer, to double his output must at once provide a larger factory, increase his selling
 l: merchant to do a larger business has to immediately tie up much larger capital in stock and multiply his ex- penses all along the line; farmer, to handle a greater acreage. must ac- quire more land, more equipment, more help-but- it costs no more to mine and market ore worth hun dred dollars a ton than it does to produce an equall quantity worth ten dollars ton.
 In all other lines of endeavor in which men labor long and continu- ously, profits accumulate gradually but your mine operator usually works longer and harder than any of them, very frequently without any financial reward at all, until finally he opens up a. body of ore that in few months enables him to recoup the outlay of years and thereafter continues inde- 6nitely to earn more money for him.
 This is, of course. only one phase. of mining. Conducted as it. now is- "As business. not as an adventure"-- the regular, steady income from large