The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-07-25
BUSY SEASON FOR
THE PROSPECTOR

This is the prospector's busy sea-
son. New mines are being discovered
and old mines, Improbable under for
mer working conditions, are being
opened up. High metal prices and inn
proved metallurgical practice are two
important factors that are doing more
than anything else to put mining con-
sideration from capital than they are
now receiving. Big mining interests
and the numerous brokerage houses
dealing in mining shares seem prone
to forget that every mine was once
prospect Dealing principally in listed
dividend paying stocks they are often
too quick to condemn the little fellow
raising funds to develop some pros
pect mining territory into a producer.
They fail to realize that if the mining
industry is to grow, prospects must
be developed. If the big dividend pay
ing mining stocks in which they are
trading every day had not been
brought from the prospect stage into
the dividend class through the expen.
diture of capital, thousands of invest
ors would still be loaning their money
on bonds and drawing down per cent
or per cent or more through the
purchase of these seasoned mining Sc
curities.
From the time of the discovery of
gold in California, the prospector has
been the trail blazer for western civil
ization. Without the mining industry
the west would still be the great
American desert, the Sahara of Amer
lea. San Francisco would no doubt
still be trading post Salt Lake City
small Mormon colony and Denver
dry farming center if mining
wealth had not made these grand
cities necessary. The prospector
blazed the way for the farmer, the
manufactures and the business man
no matter what line of activity he is
following
When Bob Wopack stuck his pick
in the Gold King vein while prospect
ing near Pixies Peak he started flow
OF gold from Colorado's bonanza camp
of Cripple Greek that now aggregates
the magnificent total of over $3.50 .000.-
GEO. Womack. the prospector, trans
formed COW pasture into the wor Is
greatest gold camp and made it possi-
BILE for other poor men to become mil
lionaires. Stratton. the carpenter. ard
Burns. the plumber. by their discovery
of the independence and Portland
mines. added millions to their wealth
and the wealth of the nation, built I'D
cities and made possible the cultiva-
tfon of vast farming acreage which
could not be profitably titled witiiout
the miners gold. Harry StimIer and
Jim Butler. prospectors. put Goldfie Il
and Tonopah on the man and added
millions to Nevada's grand record as 4
wealth producer Joe Nenzel iil thA
same through his discovery of The
riches of the camp of Rochester in
the same state. Phil O'Rourke and
Tom Kellogg and a burro. all thr-e
Drospectors. as decided by the court.
discovered the famous Bunker Hiq K
Sullivan mine in the Coeur d. Alenes
of Idaho. which has paid stockholders
s17590 600 in dividends. The court de-
cided that the owners of the burro
were entitled to a one-third interest
in the property. inasmuch as the
burro being tied to a tree. became i'm
patient and paved the ground. thus
disclosing the famous lode from which
the bulk of the production of the Bun
ker Hill & Sullivan mine has since
| been taken.
The mining history of the Rocky
Mountain country is filled with ro-
nance of mine discoveries. The pros
pector put every mine. everv mining
camp and every western city on the
man in the first instance He knows
nothing about gambling in mining
| shares. but he makes possible the na-
Der certificates which hold the daily
attention of thousands of brokers, in
vestors and spectators throughout
the nation So whv not encourage the
nrospector and why not encourage the
| honest mining promoter in his effort
IN make a mine of the prospector's
discovery Denver Mining Record.