Show the prospector anahis and his burro XV 4 As long iong as I 1 am acting as lookout look out in this mining game said the prospector to his burro 1 I am going to see that every player has a fair deal if a man plays the red and the ball drops onto his color and into the right number that player is going to get all that is coming to him even if the wheel goes broke but if the player squeals and claims that he has misplaced his chips the board goes and that is all there is to it A man may copper the game but he has no right to rick kick out if he loses even if he is ignorant of the right kind of a play to make and there you are there are different breeds of sports who gather around this wheel even as there are different brands of mining promoters out in this wild and woolly west some sports and a great many promoters are game and honest to the borei core and they take what is coming to them without so much as the blink of an eye then again there are would be sports who are noted for sharp practices and these are twin brothers of the promoters who always play the sucker to win and who would not engage in a square deal even it if they knew they could 1 win none whatever in some of our conversations in the past continued the prospector we have discussed the injury to the mining industry following the footsteps of the fake promoter moter many is the time you have been charmed with the personality of some of the king pins of this order and yet you with your feeble intellect were more to be pitied than blamed as this brand of irrepressible fakers bakers has fooled many of the fwise lise yen men of the east and then some there are promoters however who are a credit to the mining industry and in my position as lookout look out I 1 must say that the public owes them a debt of gratitude you may athin so but as a matter of fact they are a blessing to the mining game as they are e the connecting link between the investing public and the prospector and neither could get well into the mining game 9 without them I 1 know that you are down 1 oa 01 the promoter promoter since you discovered the character of the faker you met with down on the dirty devil and yet there are promoters who are as fair and square as the dick burro you came up with in eagle wash on the colorado not long ago the man who is honest can be as honest in the transaction of a mining deal as he can in peddling real estate the real estate deal er has a house and lot put into his hands for sale and he hustles around to find a buyer the mine promoter meets with a prospector who has some good claims but who could not sell a twenty dollar gold piece niece for fifty cents if he had the chance for his education and training has not been along business lines the promoter examines the property of the prospector and if it suits him arranges to dispose of it if possible on a commission basis the promoter may advance money for the preliminary development of the property he expends money in advertising it is quite possible that he may go east in the endeavor to interest capital in the enterprise he spends money in getting out reports in having an inspection made by engineers and in surveying the claims he is a hard worker and is deserving of success he is playing the wheel of fortune and playing it hard his stack may be on the green when it should have been on the red but when the ball drops into the right slot at last when the capitalist and the prospector have been brought together when they have agreed upon terms when the monty money is paid over when the purchaser develops the prospect into a bonanza and when the promoter has received his commission and the country is able to boast of a new wealth producer I 1 cannot for the life of me see how the public is injured or why the promoter should be held up to ridicule and calumny by idiotic scribblers scribble rs whose fusions effusions ef find their way into the columns of the daily press instead of the waste basket where they properly belong 1 I want to tell you old long ears concluded the prospector the honest promoter is responsible for nearly every success that has been met with in the mining industry every mining enterprise has of necessity had some kind of a beginning every bonanza in the hills was promoted by someone when it was nothing more than a prospect in some way every dividend payer of today was brought to the notice of capital and the promoter might have been a wealthy man way up in the esteem of his associates or some poor devil who had honesty as well as energy in his makeup both were deserving of success and the poor hustler especially so as lie he had to face many discouragements discourage ments before the wheel went his way while the rich promoter had only to say come and his friends and followers tumbled over themselves selves 1 s to get into the combination you know I 1 am down on the faker as hard as you are on snakes centipedes and chuck wallas but I 1 am as kindly disposed to the honest and hardworking promoter as you are to the barley sack and there you are |