The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-12

so uiiNe w 10 camp, ask for
Jop, get 1t, park the auto, take tn
Tools out Of the delivery body on be
hihd' and pitch In. And you can i'm
aglhe the other changes that accom-
pany that one. OF course that's es
pecially typical Of Arizona, but we &c
IL III Montana, too. I'm not saying tina
the color has gone out entirely. be
cause 1t hasn't, but In the old days tn,
west was the West, and now it's NOV
ing East as fast as 1t conveniently can
50 that If you want to get the pure
spirit OF It, as it is today, you'll have
10 go down to Wall street. That's
where 1t lives"
Mining-mining!" mused Mr.. Cul
len. Sounds adventurous just to say
IT,. lie gazed at the fountain.
And no Industry Is less understood
even by intelligent men, Mr.. Cullen
As matter Of fact, the public doesn't
even understand most of the common
est terms. The buying public doesn't
even know what it is buying. That's
why It's so easy to sell worthless
stock"
"Oh, Mr.. HilIiard"
For instance" he said. .I smoke Of
certain number OF tons In sight. and
that's one Of the very commonest ex-
pressions in fake prospectus. l sup
pose you know you couldn't see II.
don't your"
why, mol" said Mr.. Cullen, blank
ly. Couldn't II"
You might actually see few thou
sand dollars worth"
why" said Angela, supposedly. II
thought 1t stuck right out on the walls
In gobs And you knocked It off with
a pickax! And shoveled it upw
Not exactly that" said Hillinrd
kindly. Sometimes you go at an ore
body with steam shovels, and other
times you don't. But when you remem-
Der that three or four pounds of cop
per to every hundred pounds Of rock
means very handsome profit, IL your
costs aren't excessive, you have some
idea Of how little you could knock off
a wall. No-you tear down the whole
mass. You 90 at 1t wholesale"
what I meant by romance" said
Mr.. Cullen, wasn't necessarily luck.
And besides, this yarn you've just told
us doesn't illustrate what call
business proposition. What I'm try
Ing to get ar is that you've got an oc-
cupation that isn't cut-and-dried one
like the average. There's breadth to
it-vision. There's drama There's
the outdoor side to 1t. There's"
Don't forget" Hilliard warned him,
that ! purposely gave you that illus
tration, and think you've missed the
moral. 1t was business proposition.
My friends bought the mine for the
values they knew were there. They'd
have made money If they'd gone ahead
and timbering and develop
Ing the old shaft-so that 1t wasn't |
Ill bull luck, not by any means. And
claim that the romance and the |
lrama and the excitement is In the |
of business sense with |
hat wonderful possibility of accident. |
You don't go in at random; you use
,our best judgment. and expect about
en- per cent on your money-and It's |
he chance Of getting thousand per
cent that keeps the game alive Some
men don't even get the ten
mighty few ever get the thousand.
IN satisfied, and more than satisfied,
hat the gods have been good to me,
nd put me somewhere In between"
II suppose for the people on the in
ide," said Mr.. Cullen, "a mining prop
sition is Just as safe and businesslike
s anything else. The trouble comes
n knowing when a mines a mine, and
vhen it's swindle, and / guess you
ave to be metallurgical shark to
now that anyway. But the way things
ave been going for the last year or
wo, with all this speculation in the
letals, and all the fortunes that have
cen made, sort Of set me to thinking
tat with good advice, you"
Il bee your pardon" said Hilliard
uickly. There's been mighty little
peculation in metals. Mr.. Cullen; but
here's been a tremendous amount Of