The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-09-14

anything. harder. You are no longer
going 10 come up for examinations at
thu end of semesters, al which you are
striving for marks, but you are going
to be examined, just the same, by the
men who are employing you and their
examinations will be the real thing.
They will test what you know and
that will mean dollars and cents, re-
Irutation and even liylihood to you.
How then are you to fit yourself for
tltse coming examinations l cannot
81 ggest TO you any simple wade meeum,
no pony. crib, or dope book; not even
any plain line of conduct, practice or
study AS well as I can generalize,
the broad preeept is self cultivation,
Pay attention to everything that you
are doing whether 1t be work or play.
Perhaps the best rule | can give you
| Isl Observe and think. | venture to
say that ii is precisely that rule that
ur teachers in this college have beer
trying to impress upon you Without
any doubt, they have aimed especially
L. train you to think about the pro-
hlcms in mining aid metaliursy that
/ you are going to run into. Probably
they have also trained you somewhat
in observation, but alas, the training
OF most of us in observation Is defee-
tive. We have not the excuse of the
blind man afflicted by nature. We
possess the sense of vision, but we
go around with our eyes open and see
mot, Sometimes we do not even see
enough to take care of our persons,
and allow ourselves to be run down
| by automobiles. one of the most eX-
Iasperating things in our business Is
the difficulty of getting young men
| who will see. In the mine, in the mill,
in the smeltery, they will overlook the
clues to the riddles, simply for not
having been trained adequately to OBJ
serve and report.
Listen to the story of how Thomas
T.. Walsh laid the foundation for his
great fortune. This was told by Mr.,
Walsh in an address to the graduating
upon an occasion similar to this, ana
was reprinted in the Engineering and
Mining Journal under the subcaption
of Use Your Own Eyes and Judg-
ment" That is merely different
way of putting what l have already
said to you, namely, observe and
think"
Along in the SOS, millions of dollars
were expended in the development OF
silver-lead veins and in the erection of
mills in the Imogene basin, nine miles
away from Ouray, in the San Juan
region of Colorado. The mines proved
disappointing In the course of time
the mills and machinery were dis
mantled and sold. In 1896 when
Walsh visited the region, it had been
condemned as a failure and exhibited
all the aspects of busted commun
ity."
The country was abandoned, save by
one Anuy IAiChai u"Oh' NV
p1 ospector. one day Walsh Wen
with Richardson to examine a claim
near the summit of the range. Tit
trail ran along the slope, and high VI
the side of a steep mountain. Abou
three fourths of the way up Mr. Walsl
noticed a slide of reddish pyritlferou
pCrphyrv, which attracted his attention
As having indications of gold In
! near it, and he took some samples o
it He asked Andy if gold had eve
! been found in the basin. Andy re
Piled:
5 mo, Mr.. Walsh, there is no gol
] in Imogene, except little associate
E with silver or lead"
{; Mr.. Walsh said:
r ANDY, | believe there is gold
Imogene, and | am going to find 1t.
5 His samples of porphyry proved
4 assay 81 per ton in gold, and tina
2 confirmed his suspicion.
: Among the mining claims owned b
J. Walsh at that time was one situate
r at about the same altitude about 81
: feet east from where he sampled tn
} Ipcrphyry. He had never seen tn
f workings of this claim, for snoWslld
that never melted covered the tunn'
tc a great depth. The idea occurred
E him that gold-bearing vein passe
t through or near the pOrphyry dix
] Therefore he directed Andy to driV
tunnel through the snow ana nav
samples for him on his return. Upo
] his return, Andy gave him two
three sacks of samples saying;
= "These are what you asked me
a get"
n Something within Walsh, as he de
n scribed it, said him:
e go and take your own samples Re
h member, Andy has been In the pas
1 for IS years and has never found gold
s Arriving at the mouth of the tunnt
It Walsh found dump of very snowy OF
: containing zinc, lead and pyrite. u
v ing inside and examining the vein,
$ found an 1S-inch streak of the san
e kind of ore that was on the dum