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Show "Wild Cata-' and "Dead Ileal.. "1'hocion," of the Omaha Herald, thus waltzes through certain specimens in this city of the genus homo, who make their pickings by hanging around mining localities and trying to pass themselves off for undeveloped millionaires million-aires : Salt Lake City, Nov. v, ISTn. To tUf Edit.,,- nfth' Jfo-a'd : Arriving here on Friday evening last. I have spent the time ever since in diligently looking up the one all-observing all-observing subject of the mineral wealth of Utah and just here I feel it my duty to remark that there is considerable consider-able of the Frazer river and White Pine fraud to be seen on the surface. The fraud, to a man who keeps his eyes and ears open and who has not made up his mind to "wild tat ' it, is patent and glaring. The Greets of this city are iull of the sam - old bummers bum-mers who. for twenty years have boon strolling from one rcininy dir-trior to another, a. id who. for twenty years, have earned a T.ry preearous livelihood liveli-hood by trading and tnttSeking in the gullibility of the Pilgrim- who came from the States with we:l li led purses. When in White Pine lat May, a year ago. 1 met a party of f ur of these mountain b!ood-siu Lor-. 1 r three or four days I kept wa'ch : them, and durir.j i lint time, know t.i my eenain knowledge, that they o,l n half dosen claims for good round sun.- when they hadn't a shadow of a titi ' a foot of mining ground in all ol .Nevada. I was not mueh surprised to meet that same party here. WithuUi rcnring my acquaintance, I have, however, been enabled to ''spot" then at the old game. They haTe specimens of splendid paying ore from their claims in the canons, and if they don't se:l for a good price, it will be because the fools are all dead. This rarty, like dozens of other parties, have never set foot in any mining district in Utah, nor have thev any claims whatever. Although I have not p -rsnnal'y visited vis-ited the mining district, yet I have met and conversed with gentlemen in whom I caD place the rtinos' conSd.-nce. Alex. Majors is here, and his statements state-ments are" to be taken with ab?olute certainty. He tells me there are pay-ing pay-ing lodes in many places in i tab. but the public expectation is con-iderably above what the real facts will warrant. He is a practical man, and when he tells me that capital and skilled labor and patience will have to be brought into requisition before the mines will be made pay, I believe kim. Therefore, There-fore, I suggest that from time to time you make editorial mention of the fact that Utah is no place for the riff raff. Prospecting will not pay : there are no fortunes to be made in a day nor in a year. This is no place for the poor man, however brawny he may be in muscle. President Youug ou Sunday preached to his people in the southern district, and advised them to go to work for any party that had money to develop the mine. His people can supply the labor market much better and cheaper than any other class.and now that they are willing and anxious to work, it will be suicidal for the common laborer of the streets to come here. I have a suggestion to make to another an-other class of people in the States to the moneyed class. During the coming winter you will be approached by hundreds hun-dreds of men representing themselves as owners of immensely rich claim. You will be asked to invest your money in machinery and supplies to develop these claims. When so approached, let your mind wander fr a moment to Frazer river, to Owyhee, to hite Pine. If you are sensible, the reflection reflec-tion will be profitable. My general opinion is that you should not invest a dollar except upon personal inspection of the claim. In this way ouly can you be sure of a safe investment. |