Show MINES ARE MADE it is an old saying that mines are made and not found and experience is proving the truth of the saying as the years come and go it is the prevailing belief in most circles that a mine has been found if only a cropping is discovered or if mineral indications abound in any locality and that the only requirement in such a case is to begin shoveling out silver and gold at once just as one would tackle a gravel pit or a sand bank of course there are exceptional cases but it is rarely that a prospect no matter how promising or valuable it may be can be transposed into a producing and paying mine until from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars have been expended in its development and equipment and even then there is no assurance that a mine will wil capable i be made for all prospects are not of being developed into producers n every claim owner then is taking a chance when he be begins development work vork when he puts up his first cabin and when he installs his first whim or small hoisting J j plant he has no real assurance or guarill aaran his hole bo tee that he will make a mine out of good he n in the ground if the showing is the tn will feel encouraged but it is generally ii e A case that he runs short of funds before is able to uncover ore in payable quantities nuan titie then when this stage is reached lie be nece harily calls for help and usually interests inhere jf ven v ell ture u hi his S friends and acquaintances in and D hope P g E eventually ventu ally a company is formed and enthusiasm bubbles over over in the breasts of the ne new W stockholders or at least this is the case u until antil the funds in the treasury arrive at the vanishing point and then there is usually a pause a cessation of development work for a few months or a few years then the assessing process begins and the weak members of the company fall by the wayside bitterly bewailing their poor luck or berating the man who got them into such a bum enterprise the assessments continue and possibly a bond issue is floated and the work goes on spasmodically at times with renewed vigor at intervals sometimes the proposition looks hopeless but the man who believes there is a mine there never gives up he may be crushed at times and more so by the scoffing of the un believers than by the failures he has made it is quite possible he may never succeed but we have only to point to numerous producing and paying mines in this intermountain region to prove the saying that mines are made all of the great mines of park city were made the mines of tintic gintic district required heavy expenditures in their development before unfaltering shareholders came in for their reward and in the mountain regions surrounding salt lake there are scores of properties which have enriched their owners in sums reaching into the millions that never would have paid a cent in dividends if thousands had not f first been expended in their development and equipment ip |