Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-01
As to the
 Future of
 Prosbector
AN ENCOURAGING VIEW FROM A VETERAN AT THE GAME; HIS ERA BY NO MANNER OF MEANS CLOSED

Judge Goodwin of Goodwin's Week. ly. Salt Lake City. pioneer prospector and editor of early days and the present in Nevada and Utah, takes mp the discussion of the prospector's field of activities and their scope un- der existing conditions in the follow. ing interesting manner in the current number of his magazine:
 Is The Prospeetor Passine7
 Eleven words from Col. D. C. Jack. ling have stirred up more discussion in local mining circles than any ut- terance since Thomas w. Lawson suspended his activities as mining oracle. The works were
 "I believe the days of the old time prcspector are gone"
 The sentence appeared in Colonel Jackling's contribution to a symposi. um in the Scientific & Mining Press on the subject, What is the Matter with Prospecting It touched the chord of sentiment and the chord of practical business. The accuracy of the statement has been questioned from both the sentimental and the practical sides. The sentimentalist starts with the erroneous assumption that Colonel Jackling was making himself an accessory after the fact to the obliteration of the prospector by expressing a candid opinion.
 'I don't believe for a minute that the Colonel has hog-tied the clI time prospector and dropped him headfrst into shaft or even helped nll up, the shaft after the dropping. If the old timer is missing you'll have to look farther than the Jackling yacht to place the responsibility.
 Making Them Tired of Life
 My opinion is that the old time prospectcU isn't missing. and if you'll read Colonel Jackling's words again you will observe that he does not say he Is. lt is the days" of the old timer that are gone according to the Colonel. We haven't quit breeding the material cf which the old time was made. but it is being made up in other forms. There Is more adventure nowadays in becom- ing a chauffeur than a prospector and if one wants hardships he can get more as a mining broker than as a mine seeker. The od time prospec- tor queered his own game by turing the railroads into the fastnesses and the rest of us have contributed by voting bonds and paying taxes for county roads. The youth in whom the spirit of daring burns bright may load his burros, travel for weeks through dark canyons. climb snow clad peaks, skirt precipices. run shcrt of grub, shoot deer. cook the veni- son over camp fire-and be pnched a half hour later by game warden for violating the game laws while a forest ranger is rebuking him for oarelessness in leaving the fire aglow. Truly, if the day of the cid time is not gone 1t is getting pretty dark.
 Two Ideas on New Mines.
 The practical aspect of the question Is thisl If the day of the prospector iS Sont uOW VIII ntM illlncS Dt lOuHu
 Colcnel lacking says The mod. ern way is to send an engineer to places that are reported through var ious channels to indicate promise of mineral deposits. Instead of the prospector spending, months travelling by wagon or afoot, the engineer goes to a point near his destination by train. and in all probability travels the balance of the distance by auto mobile, and if the indications justify it, he reports fin a definite way, and the result is development on prac- tical scale; the whole thing requir- ing weeks or months where 1t used tc require months or years"
 The reverse of this picture was drawn before the Mining Exchange last Saturday by w. w. Armstrong who declared that the near future would find the prospectors back In the hills and that they would be finding more mines in fifty years and in hundred years they are today.
 Colonel Jackling having his atten. tion focused on milling propositions.