The Arizona copper camp., 1916-06-16
MINERS WELCOME

But Minors Keep Out-and Widows
and Orphans is no place for you.
l want to have little heart to heart
talk with Strong Men who are not
| lfraid 10 dig in the ground and with in
vestors and spectators who are
willing to take chance, with
| men of nerve who have sense enough
to know that you cannot always win
and will not holler if they lose, or lose
their heads and go crazy if they
hapnen tc be luct,v and make 80 kan
dred fer one. I carnot 3f;ard to hire.
high priced advertising writer to fix
this up in fancy style an 4 cannot go
around and see you one at tiuo so
am going to Tell ybu all about it just
like you and I Wee sitting out at the
Glory Hole on 4 couple Of flat rocks,
smoking cur Full Durham and Curve
Cut and figuring where was the Eest
place tn work to get the most high
grade ore the quickest and cheapest.
want to talk particularly to miners
and mining men and investors who
know something about mining and how
gold occurs and what it takes to make
a mine.
There are different ways of mining
Some outfits mine just enough so they
can sell a lot of stock; others sell just
enough stock so they can do a lot of
mining. Some outfits, promoters and
pretended mining men do most of their
mining in mahogany furnished offices
with a bunch of blonde stenographers
and around the hotel lobbies with
some more blonde stenographers 60,
making big hole in the bank roll but
not much of hole in the ground and
while their blonde assistants may be
gold diggers they don't get much of
it out of the rocks and the dividends
declared are generally personal. This
class who pose as successful mining
men make a lot of noise but they don't
make good. There is another class Of
mining men and miners who get out in
the hills and dig in the ground in an
honest effort to open up a real mine,
men who know more about picks and
drills and single packs and muck sticks
and Dutch oven bread and frijoles and
bacon and black coffee than they do
about silk stockings and stiff collars
and the fancy silverware of the swell
cafes; men whose arms are muscled
from swinging a pick or single jack,
and not from bending their elbows over
a mahogany bar while telling about
their mine."
Whenever a good mine is made and
opened up by some of these real honest
to-God miners and mining men you
will always find them being followed
up by some Of these fancy mahogany
finished imitators who come in and
try to skim some cream on the strength
II.
mining-the kind that is done in the
grounds alright and fortunes are be-
ing made every year by many people
in legitimate mining-but the Lord help
you if you are unfortunate or foolish
enough to get in with bunch of the
imitators, the buzzards that follow the
feast produced by the real mines and
prey upon the ignorant and credulous
who know nothing about real mining.
l don't claim to be a promoter, a
broker, stock salesman. famous
and well-known" mining engineer or
anything like that-but do know a
mine when see one and know what
kind of a prospect it generally takes
to make a real mine. I might not
look well or feel at home behind a ma
hogany desk or in front of mahogany
pick, shovel, single jack and drill and
1 can cook a batch of Dutch oven bis
cult and a pot of black coffee and some
beans and crisp bacon rYiat will make
your mouth water like an irrigating
canal. I know formation from A to 2,
from granite to limestone and / know
ore when 1 see it and know how to
follow it and I know how to handle
of nd iv Ioo
ground. have prospected and mined
for about twenty years and have brok-
en- enough rock and ore samples to
concrete the National Highway. I
have seen mines made, all the way
from unstaked prospects to big produc-
ing mines and think know what kind
but I can't tell in five minutes or a
few minutes or few words what it
has taken me years to learn.
1 have the Glory Hole prospect-not
a mine yet-and. it is a property which
is famous in this part of the state and
elsewhere as having produced thou
sands of dollars in hundred dollar
pound jewellery ore in a few days out
a twelve foot pit and open cut apout
as large small office or bedroom. The
ore was discovered on the surface first,
just below an immense ledge and out
crop over hundred feet wide in places;
thousands of dollars being picked up on
the surface the first afternoon. A
trench was started in the hillside run
ming up towards the main immense
outcrop and the gold was struck in
place underground and it is variously
estimated that between $4,000 and
$150,000 was taken out in less than