Show SUCCESS IN MINING hardly a day passes but that one can see in the papers an account of business failures here a big mercantile establishment goes under or a banking institution passes into the hands of a receiver the conditions in mercantile and banking circles seem to us most serious on account of these failures and we keep our ear to the ground with the expectation of hearing that all of the stores and banks in the country have concluded to go out of guisness buis ness but listen arwe may no such information is received and we are astonished to find that the business institutions of the east and west go on just the same and that the failures being constantly recorded cause hardly a ripple on the sea of finance after awhile the further fact dawns upon us that the mercantile bubines is not a failure that banking is legitimate and that neither one can be condemned because once in a while some institution falls fails of success As a matter of fact business along these lines is profitable if this were not the case it would not be long before mercantile pursuits would be abandoned before every bank in the country would be closed the same line of reasoning can well be applied to mining of failures in this industry there are many but this does not brand mining as illegitimate no one is compelled to engage in mining as a business and were it not profitable it would not be long before every mining enterprise enter pise in this and every other country would be speedily abandoned the truth of the matter is however that no other pursuit or occupation yields such huge returns in no other business are the profits so great as in mining and this is why the occupation is so fascinating so fraught with big possibilities in III looking over the dividend disbursement of mining companies compani eg it will readily be seen that the industry is in no danger of going to the dogs for as a matter of fact mining is a success and more big fortunes are being made through this industry than in any other occupation or pursuit |