Show WHO IS THE MINING KINO KING in the last issue of tim THE REVIEW the question was asked who is the mining king of utah 11 and a list of successful mining men was given from which to choose it being difficult to designate the gentleman who is entitled to this distinction A few days later the IN mining lining world of butte commenting on the same subject said if success be the measure of a mans qualification ualifi cation for the position the mining king is is one who has brought his millions from the earth and impoverished no human being if on the other hand untiring industry perse derence ve rence unconquerable determination to succeed coupled with a thorough 11 knowledge of mining in all its details and an intelligent application of such knowledge entitles a man to kingship n in the mining world many without a dollar to pursue his avocation further are uncrowned mining kings they are masters in their calling but they failed to draw wealth from the bosom of a barren earth success measures nothing in the mining domain where everything is equal excepting ng the breadth and sweetness of the smiles of fortune he who is favored by them becomes wealthy he who receives nothing but the frowns does not that is all there is about the whole matter the term mining I 1 I 1 king is too often misapplied it is not everyone who has made his millions by min mining operations is a mining king he is simply a money magnate who gained wealth by a stroke of fortune who struck a bonanza instead of a barren rock in place that is all 11 butte would be as barren of mining kings as the top of the big butte is of gold if depth had not answered to surface promises many a mining camp has failed thus to answer and the operators are today working as diligently as perser perseveringly erin 11 ly and as faithfully to unearth a fortune as they did in the camp they abandoned they are not mining kings as the successful ones are called but they are kings at mining who are paving L the way perchance for others to become money magnates thatah y it is said that at least men len have 1 left eft dawson this season hundreds of thousands have left california and nevada since those countries were settled they were miners they were industrious intelligent men but very few were successful in their calling they were kings at mining but under the common acceptation of the name but few were mining kings 11 it is reported that a three foot body of ore has been encountered in the workings of the north Sw swansea ansem between silver city and mammoth |