Show MIME GORDON writes to the chicago mining and discusses the question of prospects and mine pool prospectors at ouray colorado ho say mines and prospects ara held by comparatively few persons most of whom are mine poor and have all they can do to work their yearly assessments if that was tho cise in bouny alone such a state orient would bo news to the miners and ton purchasing mine but careiy has the simo ex nonence ne nence and it i no uncommon thing prospectors tell us to hear men remark when appi cached upon tho the subject of an interest in some prospect no think j ou I 1 bae all the interests now and moio than I 1 can handle there are in ajie city today men who own interests in from ten to twenty prospects some of them having an to do to supply themselves with piou and tools and up their yearly assessments personally Perso nilly wo know instances where assessments keep mens noses on the annd stone continually each year they aio ablo to do nothing more thin their annual assessments at the present rate of will take them a life time to open then prospects ind make them marketable no one lives in a mining camp for any other thin to obtain wealth if it bo possible but the slowest way to acquire it in a deep mining camp is to hive just enough claims to consume time and all available basli foi assessment aoa nothing tends more towards keeping a camp back than too many prospects where the owners can do no more on them than the law requires years and cirs and fortunes will be before any of them may become prominent or bo in demand by capital on the other hand wo know of some prospectors who operate alto gether different plan to open up their claims instead of play ang the dog in the manger they have fully selected good ground with indications and lave commenced develop ment in conversation with one of this class the other day he informed us that ho and his partner had sunk sixt five feet on their claim but voute operations for the pres go for wages get a auppl of provisions plo visions and clothing for the winter these two young men are in possession of but two one in one lo calitr and one in another they are satisfied they are on good ground and both being possessed of pluck and energy purpose developing these prospects as fast as their limited means will permit during the winter months when snows aro deep and of all linda slacks up these prospectors will continue their development and in all strike it rich when the news gets abroad of a strike alere will lo 10 a general st impede for the locality and prospectors now ow ning from fifteen lo 10 twenty five claims ivill bo among tho fiill to take up locations this is all well enough we do not den the light of a man to get all he can but do not think it is justice to tho camp 01 the people in it to get so much that but little 01 no work can bo done upon it thereby preventing others who would be willing to develop the property fiem getting poes of it until the time prescribed by law expires if prospectors would tt bieh this question carefully in their iv e think many rood mines would be adding greatly to the boom so anxiously looked for wo base our argument upon tho steady bard labor on the pait of the original owners ortho Kebel hon and climax we male no pretensions a prophecy but we predict that just such scenes will be re enacted before many months as thoe on rebellion hill last winter when the rich senus were made f THE critical point in the president s sickness having been pissed the opposition papers have the audacity to intimate that ethcie has been a general conspiracy on of the president Pies ident and his medical attendants to aoa upon the of abo doeple L commee cial is the first to make this assertion and the butte mino presumes somewhat on the stupidity of its of the same senseless trash these candi dahs for should remember that the american people as a class are not in the best of humor to permit such unjust accusations to pass unnoticed ilia physicians are men who are and lave ben in constant at upon the president since tho shooting and bear a national reputation they have acquired this reputation by constant study toil and practice and do these newspaper men 01 any one else think fora moment they will sacrifice ysais of toil and study for tho sake of arousing the sympathies of the people and themselves sink into and for the time leing seclusion and our president the choice ot the people to enter into such a disgraceful such advanced ideis are simply the extreme if the antipathy of thoe editors is so great against the president and his physicians recommend their removal to south among the babions baboons and aurang outages learn their gibberish and publish to the connecting links people donl believe it and these flashy will dry up and blow away before they succeed in convincing then of the validity ol 01 such nonanie |