Show opportunity f by letson balliet I 1 what up builds a new mining camp or makes any tow town grow the answer is opportunity opportunity brings people froni from afar past performances or product that has gone g one are of little int interest erest the P public bublic press announced a few weeks ago that a certain town in missouri had shipped ho hogs gs during the year th that at was wonderful but all those hog farms around missouri are owned by somebody and I 1 dare say that there was no great influx of population to this missouri town si simply nip ay because some hog farmers had shipped hogs if that same newspaper item had announced that there was acres of cheap land jand or free government lands land that offered opportunity for more hog ranc ranches hesp itis it is ad able i ae that the population of that county would be doubled by this time similarly we note the public press in the mining camp anno announcing in flaunting headlines that the bullion shipments for the year amount to two million dollars that is wonderful but all of that bullion which has been shipped is is owned by somebody the there re is no opportunity for anybody to come to the mining camp and get any of it because it is already gone if that same press pres s notice had announced that there were nvere thousands of acres of free government land undeveloped prospects which could be turned into productive mines oy by development it is probable that the po population oil of the community would shortly be doubled there is no opportunity advertised in heral heralding dinga a commodity that has gone nobody plays very strong for something that has beld been n the things that interest are the possibilities to come if t there here is no for wealth they cannot cann opportunity newcomers to acquire be expected to come merely to watch someone else WHO ga getting eting s something 0 met hin g there are three things that noone no one can profit by watching another man count his money watching some other mans mine ship bullion or kissing another mans wife if th there ere is no opportunity to get one of your own you will go some place else it is almost a universal custom for the power co companies m to arrange their schedules so as to make a low rate to the big mining companies that are harvesting their crop who will cut off the wires fold their tents and depart as soon as the crop is harvested while they require a prospector or a small mine that is developing to pay a very much higher rate notwithstanding th standing that the developing mine is the one that will some day keep the power company paying dividends by taking the place of the older mines when they have harvested their crop I 1 atwould it would seem perfectly within the possibilities for the power company to make a prospectors schedule or a special low rate up to a point where ito motor of over 50 or h p is is in in use this might be arranged so as to give the prospector prospecto r a life to give the new mining company a chance to open its ore deposits and thus become a big user of power in inthe the future under the present rule the power companies and the hardships of getting power are throttling development and have in many cases created a condition that now leaves many mines idle at least that would be mines if they had a little encouragement from the power companies for developing but it is customary for small town merchants power companies and mining camp newspapers to give cheaper rates longer credits and many favors to the big mines that are working themselves out instead of to the new mines that would take their places and perpetuate as well as increase the size of the community if a prospector tor or small mine owner takes a news it item to the paper that would benefit the community by cr creating cating interest in his mine it is called advertising and is ahr throttled ot by a charge which the prospector may be unable to pay if a big mining company furnishes an article for the paper for the purpose of making a bull market on his stock or driving it down so the insiders can buy it in it is given columns of free spaced space whereas the only people who benefit by it are the insiders more mining mining camps would be built up more interest would be shown in mining if publicity was given to the opportunities rather than to bullion shipments that somebody else already owns |