Show GIVE CAPITAL A CHANCE it is being freely predicted that this is going to be a good year for the mining industry of the west we all hope that this is going to be the case and thus early in the season the advance in metal quotations strongly indicate that the prophecy of good times coming is going to be fulfilled but the mine owners of the west the prospectors and the claim holder must make inake up his mind to help if prosperity is to be induced to settle in our midst for prosperity as we view the term means money capital and this must be met half way if we hope or expect to interest the owners of this money of this capital in the many mining propositions now held in abeyance because of lack of funds for their development I 1 most every prospector every claim hold er and every mining man is possessed of mining ground which he deems valuable it may be that with proper development and equipment it may produce millions in time but it is not worth millions now As a matter of fact it is practically valueless and at the utmost could not show more than or blocked out and in sight perhaps capital would be willing to give twice this much for the prospect and it would be money in the pocket of the owner to take it but no his ideas of values are fixed upon future possibilities andee wants or for a prospect upon which he has ex banded but a small alno amount in ili development If and then he bewails the hard times and takes a fall out or of capital when the gouid be investor passes up the proposition I 1 for another which can be had for something like its present actual value how much better it would be to close a deal for or and making a big piece of money at that than to scare capital away by asking exorbitant and unreasonable figures As it is it is the buyer who is taking the chance and not you capital always assumes this risk but it does not propose to deal in absurdities and is always anxious to play as safe as possible if we want prosperous times throughout the mining districts of the west we must give capital a chance we must meet mee the man with money half way put yourself in his place and then see how your own proposition would strike you dont be content to plod along year after year without hardly the price of a meal in your pocket just because you insist on asking more inore for a prospect than a regular producing mine is worth be more moderate in your demands and give the other fellow the man with the money a chance to make something you wont live always and may never live to get a million for a piece of mining ground that is not worth more than be reasonable help in getting a little real money in circulation in your camp in your district and give capital a chance |