Show GRUB STAKING THE prospector athas been fashionable for many many years in the mining regions of the west and by that is meant ine antall all of the country from montana on the north to mexico on oil the south to grubstake the prospector and the mining claim owner without means to develop his ground the business men of a community would supply the sowbelly beans and flour the picks and powder and tent so that the men who applied to them might go out into the mountains and search for and develop such likely showings of gold silver lead or copper as they might find syndicates of mechanics artisans tradesmen and others living in the larger towns and cities of the mining regions have also made numerous contributions to men in whose judgment and honesty they had the utmost faith and in a very large majority of cases their confidences have not been abused they have been given a run for their money and though failure would often result they were in this way many valuable mines have been found located and developed to a point where it if has been possible to interest capital and establish largeant large andi and profitable mining enterprises these practices and schemes of finding and opening up mines are commendable and they are still bein being practiced ard encouraged but prospectors and unproven property holders holder silt are sorry to say are not all of the class outlined occasional ye we hear of the doings doing s of other men men who deliberately t tal advantage of the confidence reposed in them these men belong to a class who will report a discovery to their bacler backers tell of the locations they have made and send in samples of the e ore for assay these are temptingly z good and ana the requests for more money or supplies that usually accompany the samples are ar cheerfully complied with this class of prospectors frequently make their discoveries in out of the way sections and are infrequently quent ly if ever visited by their grub shakers so they continue contini months 1 and sometimes years in making reports forwarding samples and collecting I 1 from their supporters before the latter find out that they have been imposed upon and this usury happens after the old prospector has felt it coming and ad hiked out for other fields and pastures new this is not meant as a reflection on the calling of the prospector nor the standing ing of the claim owner without means the thought is to protect those who deal on the square with their backers and to 0 make the latter more careful in their financing finan cima methods many instances could be related wherein thousands of dol dd lars have been blown in for the development of properties that did not exist where ore from developed mines VS claimed to have come from new discoveries discover fes so that the so can calad prospector or claim owner could secure a grubstake grub stake backing backup f from rom the tenderfoot tender foot who imagined that lie he was on the hil I 1 road to be classed as a minin mining magnate the prospecting syndicate and the grub should do ex arcise j judgment tid and caution when he goes goes into the alucs game just as he would if he or they were to tackle any 46 line of business and there are fewer failures in it where P dence is exercised than there is in the general merchandise merchandize dize 4 clothing grocery or manufacturing turing ac business there are 1 4 as many honest men adiong among 6 the prospectors and d baini o 10 as you will find in ill any other class of people and they nill object to complying 6 with the rules of business prudence w you deal with then them |