Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1920-01-03
MUST THE PROSPECTOR GO?

Must the nrosDector 90? We ask this question with real
concern which will we believe be shared by countless read
ers lest the picturesque character most ahectonaey II
not not first INTRODUCED American fiction by Bret i4arte
should become memory only He is genuine character
not much Battered exaggerated he has been pictured
not first introduced American fiction by Bret t!arc
to London.
If no other sufficient has been advanced why the
phsne hand conservation should be withheld from this
kindly romantic figure, given when Senator Pitt
man arguing against government ownership development
and control said:
believe that you would have development OF the min
erals i'll sight and you would never find any more OF
the minerals that are hidden under the ground think
that would drive away from the est the pospector
splendid Individual that circumstances have developed IN
that country and without whom mines would have been
found You will drive him South America you will
drive him to Siberia, China, to Africa, to everywhere
else where there reward for individual suffering and
initiative.
may ovenclusive for the Wesern senator to say
that without the prospecor you will find more
minerals and maybe had he spoken with considered
thought he would have restricted his minerals gold and
silver to gold alone.
The prospector hunts for gold In dry gravel over which
rivers in the dim past in the beds OF living streams in
lodges OF goldbearng quartz gold the visible palpabe
yellow metal is what he seeks He little for sold in
combination with other metals in quartz he wants
gold that be garnered by simple process-'tree or
native gold as he calls it.
Your prospector is lover OF nature dreamer poet
Hare was writing of the the Luck OF Roaring Camp but
he might have written thus OF the prospector: Mature
his and playfellow For him she would let slip
between the leaves golden shafts OF sunlight she would send
send wandering breezes visit him with the balm of bay
and resinous gum him the tall whispered heart
heart the humble bees buzzed and the rocks cawed
slumberous accompaniment.
The prospecors who discovered all nearly all the great
mines OF the Sierras and the Rockies had knowledge Of
geology of the chemistry OF minerals they aside all
such useless mental scrap with the saying You
further into the rocks than the pick goes Even in
this day of improved tools the pospectors working outfit
consists of little than pick shovel and pan for
washing graveittle else for their burro has other
burdens to carry
There is no hurry in the prospecor's day unwatng
trains, itinerary factory whistles CALL ordered
time of labor In pleasant watered little valleys be
found even high the mountain TANKS agreeable in
tervals will be pitched the prospecors the
ed and faened onrch plentiful grazing deer bear shot
its meat dried in the moistureles air thmbed copy of
Dickens. or maybe Iongfelow read again and again by
the campfire
Yet they find much The prospector who lazy followed
canyon whose grudgngy filled his canvas sack
with gold dust bothered by the black heavy that it
reluctantly separated from the heavier gold his pan
was dipped and shaken in the stream at last he
knew ne would to the quartz cropping from which, through
ages wearing waters had dragged particles of free gold
But ne pro6ed nothing from the Comstock lode which gave
to the world eight hundred million in gold and silver Prob
ably ne did not much lament his lost wealth He would
nave Dcen troubled to have given his vagran Joys
concern III the monster enginery which with pneumatic
electric drills blasts OF dynamite roaring hoist works the
laundering stamp mills whrng grinding steel loosened
broke down. hosted crushed ground mountain Of ore
concentrating the bohersome black sand from which the
chemists took gold II silver
The prospectors who located cropping OF Rocky