Show THE BRIGHT SIDE OF MINING if anyone thinks that mining is an occupation cu made up entirely of ice cream and roses regular incomes and big bank accounts he had best beat consult a physician and obtain a prescription for a severe attack of softening of the brain and moreover if one becomes imbued with the idea that there are no failures in mining and that success is as sure as death and taxes he had better invest his holdings in government 4 per cents and spend the balance of his life in a climate where there is not more than two or three degrees variation in temperature the year round for if he should engage in the mining industry under the impression that he was sure to win his physical system would surely sustain such ia a shock as would make him a regular patron of some sanitarium the balance ot of his life no one knows better than the average experienced mining man that the path of the mining industry is beset beset with trials and tribulations hardships and disappointments but this does not deter him from his chosen avocation for he knows that when success really comes his way no small pittance will represent the profits he has made he may fall once twice or a dozen times limes but in the end he will come out triumphant were this not the case the mining industry would have died a natural death years ago overcoming obstacles is part of the mining game hardships and toll toil disappointments and even failure give zest to the man who is really in the strife and despite the struggle that has been made there generally comes a time when the bright side of mining is looked upon at close quarters there is hardly a mining camp in the west where the bright side has not thrust itself up through the black clouds of disappointment of hope long deferred and we have many such instances very near at hand the bright side of mining is now stirring the blood and causing renewed activity in the grand old camp of Bifi bingham ghim the wonderfully rich tintic gintic district and in other sections of utah ely and pioche in the battle born state are now engulfed 1 alfed ul fed as it were in a halo of brightness and when it comes to goldfield a more fitting case of the bright side could not be presented to an admiring public and yet goldfield has passed through the travail and convulsions of disappointment with so stout a heart that it would seem as if dame nature compassionate and tender lender had touched barren veins with the wand of ma male magic 1 I le as a reward for those who had endured desert hardships peril and even suffering in the search for her treasures goldfield a name to conjure with and never more so than at the present time a time when her mines are greater and dividend payments more bountiful and prodigal than ever before bedfor e in the history of this marvelous gold camp the men of goldfield endured their hardships when removing the topsoil top soil in the search for hidden ledges they were up against lt it when they begged ed and prayed for sufficient money wherewith to sink a ten foot hole when they were willing to sacrifice a portion of their holdings for even a grubstake grub stake this was the period of gloom with them but the bright side is showing now and one cannot but stop and wonder when he reads of the great body of 1000 ore showing in the drift from the clermont shaft the magnificent record being made by the red top and of the high grade shoot recently uncovered in the famous mohawk such instances illustrate the bright side of mining we hear of them diem every day on every hand and seeing knowing that such wonderful successes have rewarded unceasing and strenuous effort it is no wonder that those who have been cast down who have made failures rise to their feet again and return to the struggle with greater determination to succeed than ever before |