Show the prospector and his burro h 1 I want to tell you said the prospector to his burro it is not as easy now to sell a hole in the ground for a mine as it was two or three years ago and the majority of investors now claim to hall hail from missouri and have to be shown it used to be that barren ground several miles distant from a new strike could easily be sold at from to a claim but not now none whatever that time is now only a dim memory of the past and a man with a bundle of the long t green in his jeans now fights as shy of a proposition of this kind as he would of the faro game where the lookout falls fails to see his ante and always decides in favor of the dealer I 1 it is almost like throwing money to the birds or buying a pig in a poke to put ones money in barren acreage just because it is within an hours ride of a bonanza discovery but this is no worse than to buy treasury stock in a mining company upon the strength of a few fancy ore are specimens and samples for a piece of picked rock does not represent a mine run any more than a run 0 of f luck on a slot machine means that the player will break the bank and retire from the game a millionaire for the chances are that the high numbers are pa plugged just the same as much of the divi bend paying stock is held by a favored few while the investor is asked to take a chance at a mining share proposition from which he stands as much chance to come out a winner as you have of being exhibited at a state fair as a rare and almost unknown animal of course there are mining propositions which are pushed along on intrinsic merit and real value hundreds of these are to be found in the west but stock in these is not sold because of a display of a few handful hand fulls is of high grade ore and this I 1 deal made in an old makes me m th think ink of a idaho camp less than two years ago an and d while the investor was frostbitten frost bitten at the time he will yet win out notwithstanding ding the swindling scheme of the for the mine in question is really a a little bonanza 1 I see you are interested and so will tell you the story this promoter who was in charke charge of the mine in question had t taken aken out some amazingly fine samples consisting of gold nuggets quartz fuu full of native gold and rock which fairly glistened with the yellow metal with these he excited the interest of his friends and acquaintances telling that in a in the mine across the opening of which he had built a strong bulkhead he had stored forty sacks of ore which were worth on the strength of his fine samples and the statement regarding the sacked ore he disposed of a large block of the treasury stock of his company later on however when the sacked ore was milled it was found to contain only about 2000 in its gold content 1 I want to tell you old long ears concluded the prospector it is getting so that it is a hard proposition now to salt the public at the roulette wheel the player can see what he is doing and the investor is now no vv as keen to know where his wad is going when he is engaged in a mining deal as the player is to see into what hole the ball will drop when he places his chips on the board and there you are and then some |