The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-04-04
It REQUIRES STAYING
QUALITIES TO MINE

The business of mining, while it
has every advantage inherent in all
other lines of effort, has also some
few that are peculiarly its own.
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 race), it
can be truthfully and consistently
said that no man who enters the
field and persistently- -doggedly-
follows the occupation fails to ulti-
mately win its rewards, says the Den
yer Mining Record.
The Success Microbe is an elusive
little beast. He has a way of alight-
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'ain't there" none the less the
man who goes into mining and stays
there eventually makes money and
not infrequently piles upa handsome
fortune.
Were it possible to get back into
the lives of practically every one of
the great and lesser mining mag
mates of to-day. stories Of struggles
with poverty, privation and hard
ship utterly incompatible with their
present affiuence would be forth
coming.
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 its re-
corded profits of a million a month.
Denver holds a multitude of men
whose individual incomes from the
ore business and its allied industries
range all the way from fairly COM
Portable 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 colleague
for 20 long years before they finally
struck it in the Florence mine. John
Campion is another multi-millionaire
who knows the feel of a pick handle.
A. E. Reynolds could make you sit
and listen for hours at time-if he
would and every other mining man
who has long since quit worrying
about the eats could recount acts
concerning himself which would
surely surprise those whose acquaint-
ances with him is of comparatively
recent origin.
The host of men, while not in the
plutocratic class, who'draw substan-
tial 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 as
being peculiarly characteristic of
mining is the fact that there is no
commodity that runs into money so
fast as reasonably good ore nor is
there any other product not directly
influenced by the cost of its produc-
ton. A manufacturer, to double
his output, must at once provide a
larger factory, increase his selling
costs and all his other expenses; a
merchant to do larger business has
to Immediately tie up larger capi-
tai in stock and multiply his expenses
all along the line; farmer, to handle
a greater acreage, must acquire
more land, more equipment, but it
costs no more to mine and market
ore worth 500 ton than it does to
produce an equal quantity worth $40
ton.
In all other lines of endeavor in
which men labor long and continually
profits accumulate gradually, but
your mine operator usually works
longer and harder than any of them,
very frequently without any finan-
cial reward at all. until he opens up
body of ore that in few months
enables him to re-coup the outlay of