Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-06-04

nateiN regarding nlm with tndulgef
? pity, and sending i-tcid-you-so me,
sages to billiard
"Where was this--in Montanai"
"SiIverhow county. Near Butte
Yes. there Is romance In that country
Mr.. Cullen. It's I'm every tree and ev
cry rock. and In every hill and vale,
and under the ground. And I'm afraid
I'm just enough of a realist to find
most of my own under the surface"
"To save my life," said Cullen. "a
can't help thinking of that region ms
a Mark Twain sort of country--som.
hrer0s and six-shooters and Ylgilantes
and stage coach hold-ups and gold dust
as a medium OF exchange know IT'S
childish. but I've never been out there
and it's hard to get over what we
learned at school," He surveyed his
Wanted garden less arrogantly; the
fountain. which In his moments off
eomplacence had all the attributes of
geyser for him. was suddenly |
feeble faucet and the tidy lawn was
no more seductive than window-box
TIE up-to-date SCHOOLGIRLS" said
billiard. laughing, "have good many
changes I'm them. The West of the
early eighties is all gone. the atmos
phere is an gone, the od-style miners
are all gone; you used to see some pic-
Iuresque sights even ten years ago. but
nowadays you best realize how the in.
dustry has changed when you see
couple of pals hunting for work in an I
auto drive up to camp, ask for a
Job, get II, park the auto. take the
tools out Of the delivery body on be- Il
hind, and pitch In. And you can i'm n
agine the other changes that accom-.
pany that one. OF course that's es II
peclally typical Of Arizona, but we get a
II IN Montana, too. I'm not saving that Il
the color has gone out entirely, be- al
cause II hasn't, but In the old days the
" est was the West, and now it's NOV. CT
ng East as fast as 1t conveniently can I'll
so that if you want to get the pure SO
spirit of It, as it is today. you'll have hi
o go down to Wall street. That's yC
where ii lives" oil
"Mining-miningl" unused Mr. Gull bt
en-. Sounds adventurous just to saw to
l.. He gazed at the fountain. fiji
And no industry Is less understood Sc
even by intelligent men. Mr.. Cullen. TO
IS matter of fact, the public doesn't ~
ven understand most of the common tn
st terms. The buying public doesn', w
ven know what it is buying. That's or
ny It's so easy to sell worthless pc
-ock." tn
"Oh Mr. billiard :"
For instance" he said. 81 spoke of pa
certain number of tons in sight. and he
lat S one of the very commonest ex- tn,
'essions in fake prospectus. l sup no
ose you know you couldn't see il he
mt you?'
why, not" said Mr.. Cullen, blank at
Couldn't II" s
you might actually see a few thou-
nd dollars worth" str;
why" said Angela, surpr. sedly. 81 smi
ought II stuck right out on the walls! :.
gobs And you knocked it off with Hill
'ickax And shoveled 1t upw can
Not, exactly that" said billiard I Il,
diy. Sometimes you 60 at an ore 100
ly with steam shovels. and other it's
les you don't. But when you remem- man
that tire or four pounds of COP in a
to every hundred pounds of rock very
ans very handsome profit. if your II is
Is aren', excessive, you have some inst
a of how little you could knock of =
'aH. NO-yo tear down the whole far
IS. You go at ii wholesale" mar
What l meant by romance" said We
Cullen. wasn't necessarily luck. nece
besides. this yarn you've just told into
doesn't Illustrate what l call a price
mess proposition. What I'm try arou
10 get at is that you've got an &C nrod
alton that isn't cut-and-dried one facfo
the average. There's breadth TO event
VISION There's drama. There's qui
outdoor side to It. There's" So f,
Don't forget" billiard warned him. organ
: purposely gave you that illus 1.-Two
Ion, and I think you've missed the chi
H. 1t was a business proposition puzzl
friends bought the mine for the "Y,
es they knew were there. THEY'D How
made money if they'd gone ahead ."rl
itering and timbering and develop- dfvidf
t,e Qua ShHtt-so that II wasn't per c,
'' i"NNf h't ny any means. And get II
lim that the romance and the CON,
a and the excitement Is In the Won =,
inaton Of business sense with .ausa
wonderful possibility OF accident ana +
don't go in nj random; you use hiner
best Judgment. and expect about uothln
er cent on your mouey-ana It's from D
haHce OF getting a thousand per If nro
.hat keeps the game alive. Some every
don't even get the ten mine
y ic~ ever get the thousand ut,ire
liisied. and more than satisfied. ing TO-
He gods have been good to me. ticular
80 me somewhere in between" ina abo
ppposo for thc people on the In reason
said Mr. Cullen, "a mining prop rate of
Is just as safe and busnessllke a wear
vrhIng else. The trouble comes no e
wing when q mines a mine and every