Gilpin observer., 1914-11-26
COLD FEET

Cold feet have caused more people
to lose out in this world than any
thing else. 1t has destroyed their
hopes, kept their noses to the grind
stone, caused poverty, and kept men
hard at work all their lives. 1t has
kept men working for money, instead
Of letting them make their money
work for them.
1 know of a mining company that
was organized several years ago, and
the promoters of the enterprise sent
out thousands of copies of their pros
pectus. To the writer's certain
knowledge 5000 people were written
letters, and urged to grasp the oppor-
tunity that was offered them. They
were urged to investigate the merits
CT the property and ascertain the
truth of the statements made in the
prospectus.
| About 900 of the 5000 investigated
as presented, and made small in
vestments in the stock.
Five thousand four hundred laid abb
solutely no attention to the oppor-
tunity that was offered them. Some
of the 600 told their friends OF the
opportunity, and were laughed at for
their pains.
When we stop to realize that 5.400
people had cold feet, and allowed the
opportunity to slip by without inves-
tigation. we see the alarming percent
age of people who are afflicted with
the awful malady cold feet. The ra-
ito is 10 people who had cold feet
to every l who had the courage to
use his own judgement after an in
vestigation.
There is a difference between sus-
picion and caution. The cautious
man will be courteous enough to con-
slider opportunities, and will look into
them, and having Investigated will
use his judgment and ability to grasp
the opportunities that he finds to be
good, and will pass the unworthy by.
The suspicious man will pass every
thing that is offered to him. and
throws TIE whole wheat crop away
because there is chaff among the
wheat. He goes to his banker, his
butcher, his baker his grocer or some
friend who never saw the mine and
knows nothing about it for advice.
and the banker or friend without
knowledge of the subject, ridicules
him, advises him against investing
his money, and the weakling falls
back on the brains Of someone else
instead of using his own and learn
ing for himself the facts.
1t is a bitter pill-but facts show
that ten lose out on account of cold
feet to where one makes success by
caution, using his own judgment and
grasping his opportunities. Think it
over-it is a lesson worth learning,
a sermon worth preaching.
People of small means are the peo-
pie who need good mining invest
ments most of all-they haven't
enough money for per cent. per
cent or even per cent to do them
much good. They are the ones who
need safe mining investments that
will pay 20 per cent, 40 per cent and
even 100 per cent. A few dollars has
never made any man poor, but it has
made many a man rich.
An unfortunate man-has a friend
who invested in something and lost
A narrowrgauged man-refuses to
listen to things outside his line.
A hind-sighted man-never sees op-
portunities till they have passed.
The fool-thinks a thing worthless
or 1t wouldn't be offered to him.
We often see people who laugh at
the sucker who bought mining
stock" but how about the sucker
who didn't buy mining stock?
The road leading from success is
rocker than the one leading to it,
LETSON BALLET.