Show an expression of ideas this department is open to mining men mill men engineers metallurgists assayers chemists and the prospector prospector AND BUYER by chas moore park city utah I 1 have been a reader of the salt lake mining review off and on for ten or twelve years as well as some half dozen others of the leading mining journals of the country for twenty years I 1 have been prospecting more or less and during that time have shipped nearly half a million dollars worth of ore in my own name I 1 have never had any partners or organized a company with one exception and that just recently this company has only made two small shipments of high grade ore so far what I 1 am coming to is the subject of prospecting what is the matter with prospecting and what is to become of the thousands of mining engineers that our technical schools are turning out these three subjects have occupied more or less space in the various mining journals for several years but more particularly ticul arly within the last few months in the first place it seems to me that about ninety nine out of every one hundred young men who leave college these days mining school graduates as well as others have but one thought and that is to get a job and after that to hold said job it has always appeared to me that a mining engineer who is worth from adoo 2 to a year to some company ought to be worth that much or more to himself the idea is instead of working for someone else all ones life to get out and make a job to be ones own boss to try to develop some of the natural resources of the country this talk of all the natural resources of the country being nearly exhausted or already gobbled up is mostly bosh the articles the prospector and his burro running tor for 8 several everal years in the IN mining fining review contain about all the wit and wisdom there is on these subjects A great deal is being said at present and a great deal has been spoken and written for twenty years or more about the difficulty of interesting capital in prospects well it is now always has been and always will be more or less difficult to interest capital in mining prospects capital is not looking for prospects in any field of endeavor what capital is looking for is a sure thing for this reason there will always be thousands of opportunities for the man of small means to take up propositions that capital overlooks or turns down I 1 notice in the articles the prospector Pros and his burro mr prospector finds a good thing after dilli gently searching for it and works it and makes money out of it until capital comes along and buys it at a good price it is capital that seeks mr prospector and his mine and not mr prospector that seeks capital now to bring those articles up to date according to the drift of a large percentage of the contributions appearing recently in the mining press you should represent mr prospector as going out and patiently searching the hills until he has found something good then immediately upon finding it instead of trying to develop it he should make a break for the nearest big town and organize a company and sell stock etc in that case his talk to his burro would be something like this 1 I want to tell you old long ears mining is on the bum you remember that fine strike I 1 made over OR on rattle snake hollow in the jumping wild cat range well it was a peach I 1 located fifteen claims and took about fifty pounds of that fabulously rich quartz over to the mining metropolis and organized a company with ten million shares at ac a share and what do you thing old long ears i sell enough stock to buy you a sack of bar h ley and myself a sack of flour and a sie side of bacon everybody claimed to be broke except old money bags and he had the gall to offer me 75 for a controlling inter est provided the property was as good or better than I 1 represented it to be |