Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-03-09

for Idaho. He based this prediction
on a study of conditions made on tours
that have taken him, in the past year,
to practically all the camps CT the
state He said a great many operators
have learned severe lessons which
will be of great benefit to them in
times to come.
Tho inspector does not expect any
booms like those of the old days be-
cause, he said, the state has been pros
pected enough to prove that this is
a remote possibility. Yet the pros
pecting that has been done in the past
year has proved that Idaho's old
camps are still good producers.
Gold, he said, is a good barometer
upon which to base predictions. AL
though other metals suffered about
so per cent decline in 1921, gold
showed a slight increase in actual
production.
This small upward trend" said the
inspector, ''in the first year of ap-
preaching normal conditions indicates
that the period OF a rising barometer
has been reached and that a steady
increase in gold production may be
expected"
Mr.. Campbell regretted that illegiti-
mate promotions have occurred to
such large extent in Idaho.
"The mining industry of the state
is suffering from the effect of illegiti-
mate promotions and mismanage-
ment," he said, land of the two, il
legitimate promotions with their
fraudulent literature are doing the
greater harm. This literature is de-
signed to mislead and to convey ideas
which generate hopes that can never
be fulfilled. Undertakings financed
through these means are generally of
short life, and the temporary benefit
derived is of no value, as the great
harm lies in the fact that the investor
does not condemn the promoter of the
property, but lays the blame entirely
upon the state and its possibilities.
THE proper management and di-
rection of the operation and affairs of
mining company requires more good
Judgment, coupled with business and
technical ability, than any other bust
ness undertaking. The men who are
holding the executive offices of every
dividend-paying mine in the state did
not acquire their positions overnight,
but through long years of hard work
and association with mining, coupled
with technical training, natural bust
ness ability and honesty.
"If the investing public would real
lie that these requirements are neces-
sary for successful undertaking the
popular belief that mining is a gamble
would be without foundation, because
when a property is properly equipped
with intelligence and honesty the pro-
portion of failures in mining is far
less than in any other business under
taking"
Mr.. Campbell spent the greater part
of 1921 in various parts of the state
personally investigating the mining
situation as presented during that
year. He has prepared an analysis of
the conditions as he found them in
each county of the state, giving at
tention only to the actual operations.
In Blaine county he found the In
dependence mine of the Federal Min
ing IL Smelling company maintained a
steady production in 1921. This is a
lead-silver mine and the county has
| been Ii producer of this ore since 1879.
Mr.. Campbell looks for a complete re-
vival of the industry in 1922 in Blaine
county
Boise county, the largest gold pro-
ducing county OF the state, did not