Show SHOULD SHO ULD MAKE PROSPECTS PAY the mining alining review from time to time has urged upon the mining men of the west the necessity of making prospects pay if a mining claim is worth wort h anything at all it is worth developing if it really is of any value as a general rule it should have an ore showing on the surface and if the proposition has any intrinsic and permanent value this ore should go down it is often the case and especially so with the claim holder of limited means that he dwells more on the thought of making a sale of his property than he does in developing veI ve a producer overlooking the fact that thatis if his prospect was able to show a record of a few shipments of ore to the market it would be much easier to sell and at a higher figure than a productive nonproductive non property would bring it is also often the case that the state work and annual assessments are often performed on different portions of the prospect and this altogether resulting in but little value in the way of development and substantial improvement indeed but for the matter of complying with the law such work is virtually nothing more than a waste of money and time if a man has a prospect on which there is an encouraging showing of surface ore he should confine his work to this point in its exploitation if possible he should try to take out a shipment even if a small one the returns from such shipment would not only assist him in a financial way but would give him encouragement to continue on with his work in all likelihood the deeper he sunk on the ore the further he followed it with tunnel or drift the larger the pay ore shoot would become if this should be the case he could make even larger shipments he could employ more men and some day to his surprise he would awaken to the fact act that he really had a mine a regular producer and breadwinner bread winner assuming that success had thus far crowned his efforts providing he then desired to sell he would find that he could dispose of his holdings at a figure somewhat commensurate with the value of a producing mine while if he had been indifferent and negligent in the work performed upon his property lie he never would have been able to command more than an experienced mining man would be willing to pay for a mere prospect the great trouble with many ers is the fact that they think they see more in mine promotion than they do in mine making the mining sections of the west are cursed with them and they are a most detrimental element in that they keep back the country when by the exercise of a little good judgment and the expenditure pend iture of a small sum of actual money they might give to the industry some really good and paying mines the mining review with pleasure has watched the struggles made by several persistent claim owners we say with pleasure because of the fact that they have made a success beginning with almost nothing they have been content with small returns until from this almost nothing they have transformed prospects into producing and paying t mines and are now looked upon as successful operators and men of means in the sections where they set the example of mine mide making rather than of waiting for the advent of the claim buyer |