Show WORK TELLS THE STORY not every prospect will develop into a producing and paying mine but there are a great many prospects which if opened up would prove to be bonanzas but which are never given the chance to prove their value A prospect be it ever so valuable ever so promising is worth no more than just so much desert land if money and muscle are not expended in its development As a matter of fact it might as well be ownerless I 1 or better still open for location so that it might be taken up by someone who beli believer evies that the acquisition of a prospect means that the sole object and purpose of mining is to engage in mine development and exploratory work in the mining industry it is work that tells the story and it is only by persistent effort that success eventually crowns an undertaking der taki taking ng of this character to work awhile and then to abandon everything can never bring into existence a great mine but caseb have been recorded where the owners of a prospect although lacking in finances finance shave have been able to develop it into a dividend payer after a period of several years although work wase was carried arriea on only at intervals in such cases the owners would work woric for wages in some neighboring mine or district returning to their camp when able to buy provisions and supplies such a condition would necessarily mean slow progress but at last the objective point was reached and the ore uncovered placed the owners of the new producer on easy street an instance of this kind was recently reported from california where two prospectors worked when they could in the de of their property working tor for wages in other mines when their slender purse had become exhausted recently they returned to their prospect as determined as ever to succeed and shortly after broke into an from which they took out 2500 in gold old within a few hours they are now in in a position to push development work and flushed with success will carry on operations on a larger scale than ever before this but illustrates the fact that it is necessary to do something to make a prospect valuable rather than to devote ones time in telling hot air stories about the millions he has in his property in the development of which hardly a pick has been struck but it is work that tells the true story and without it th the e prospect might as well be located in a missouri cornfield ay as in a district in the west that is knows to be richly mineralized |