Show APPLY THE SOFT PEDAL BOYS last week the mining review was in in receipt of what was apparently an advance proof of an article describing a new gold discovery in mineral county nevada T it is not the purpose here to say anything in discouragement of the company which is reported to have made the strike nor to cast doubt on the value of disclosures claimed to have been made but we do wish to suggest as we have many times before done that men and companies desirous of obtaining public support of mining mining 6 undertakings should bear in mind that the old goldfield boom day methods of working up excitements excite ments and stampedes dont bring home the bacon like they used to do the investing and speculative public of today is more critical more deliberate and more searching in its methods and processes of determining the values of mines or mining prospects than ever before when the statement is i s read that some of the samples les were literally lousy with coarse gold PLAINLY VISIBLE when such a statement is immediately followed by another declaring that other samples could be properly classed as gold nuggets the reader of today wonders why it is necessary to explain that coarse gold is plainly visible ile he becomes more confused when he next reads that all of the rock panned heavy in coarse free gold and that one panning t from a sample of about five pounds of rock yielded a return of 1 in al gold old or at the rate of 2000 oer der ton but much of the gilt g is knocked off when a few lines farther along in the recital he is advised that essays assays obtained are showing gold old values of 40 to per ton then it is said that for the limited amount of work it was a wonderful show inar ing and the specimens of ORE resembled the early period of goldfield whatever that means possibly probably a more or less important im t disclosure has been made in the property referred to but if the reader of this day and acre is to be temi tempted ted to invest we believe his money can more readily be obtained if conditions are explained in less flamboyant and confusing descriptive the old idea that a new sucker is born every minute hold good any more or atlease at least not to the extent that it used to do apply the soft pedal ped al boys and talk reason if you want to get the money |