Show OPTIMISM the man we can most admire is the one who can smile when things go wrong who can cheerfully struggle through difficulties and perverse conditions not much credit to be optimistic when the clouds have rolled by and the present is bright and the future rosy the rub comes in looking pleasant when by all the rules of the game you should be blue and dis heartened like every other industry mining has been greatly affected by the monetary condition of the country for the past year but unlike many it has had peculiar conditions confronting it that have added to its general depression the activities of the great manufacturing and other like industries have been curtailed where in many cases mining has ceased altogether people must eat they must wear clothes and have their amusements even in times of financial stringency but unless mining is on a paying basis the development of new enterprises must necessarily suffer the fact that this is presidential year has added materially to other causes in establishing that seemingly gloomy aspect in the mining world the man who is seeking financial aid on a proposition however meritorious is told to wait until after election after election after election has been the cry for so long that many have become discouraged to them the placing ok of their property or the performance of annual a assessment is far more important than which william will be elected but they are obliged to wait until politics have run their course in the midst of all this uncertainty and inactivity is it not encouraging to get a cheery response to your inquiry as to conditions diflo ns in a certain camp or about a certain mans property well how are things coming on in your section of the country cpu you ask ofa of a visitor from one of the mining camps might be better but things are brightening up and we are still plugging along we have a great country down there and you cant keep us back keep your e eye e on our camp you r rather ather hilve have him answer this way than to r reply cepl y conditions are worse than ihan I 1 ever saw them the country is going to the bow wows bows and if things dont pick up pretty soon our camp will be a deserted village one of the most successful operators in the west recently remarked that more optimism was vas needed in the mining business than any other in the world he said he had cultivated it as one of his most valuable assets and we believe that he hit the nail on the head can you expect the other fellow to get into the game if you are pulling a poor mouth over it yourself after all optimism is only an imaginary condition you can acquire ak it at no additional cost and it is so contagious that you can impart it to others by persistently displaying it yourself then it means capital to you too |