Show THE prospector it has been a long and dry spell for the prospector these last seven or eight years but he should come into his own again now that the attention of the investor and capitalist is again directed to mining and its kindred industries perhaps there never was a time when the general public took so much interest in mining operations mining investments and stock speculation as is the ease case today and this interest is growing in ill leaps and bounds it is not so very long ago that the only investment that capital would make would be in well developed mines big mines and properties representing a thousand dollars in ore in sight for every hundred dollars that the purchaser was willing jo to pay now however there is a demand and for small producers and for good prospects for the investor is beginning to realize that th t the really big money to be made in mining is to secure a property of merit arid and good prospective value and develop it into a pro and dividend paying mine mille hundreds and thousands have followed out this idea in ili the past and the result has been that a large number of bonanzas have been added to the worlds producers of imperishable wealth at one time these bonanzas were nothing but prospects and the prospector found them they were often uninviting as to promises for the future and were often turned down by experts representing investors ve and inore more often they were devel aped in a desultory manner until at last a showing was made that compelled the attention of men of means others have paid almost from the grassroots grass roots but in either event the prospector was the advance guard and made it possible for investors to acquire really valuable properties great mines will be found in the mining regions for hundreds of years to come and we doubt if the mineral resources of the west will ever be exal exa husted lusted and it will be the prospector who will make the discoveries who will blaze the trails to new fields to new ledges and to new Eldo rados this should be a great era a great epoch for him for the whole world for years to come ome will be hungry for gold and silver for lead copper and zinc for a period of reconstruction and rebuilding is at hand and it is up to the mining industry to supply the needs of devastated nations and to help in maintaining the circulating medium of the world the prospector has not vanished from the mining field by any means and during the present year he will be heard from in the canyons in the r mountains and in seemingly inaccessible places and what he finds should find ready buyers in every financial center in every big mining town in the united states |