Show THE legitimacy OF MINING it used to be the case a number of years ago that investors in mining securities of any character were prone to make their investments secretly for fear that their immediate associates would learn of their operations in what was then termed a 1 wildcat wild cat industry some made fortunes from their ventures in this line but for fear that their standing would be impaired ja in commercial circles should the source of their wealth become known they kept their own secrets letting the public attribute their success in acquiring wealth and opulence to successful operations on wall street to fortunate speculations made in railroad stocks or grain gambling on wall or Thread needle streets was attended with no moral taint in those days but those who engaged in mining and took their wealth from the ground were looked upon as being engaged in an illegitimate business without investigation vesti gation and even without hearing both sides of the question mining in all its branches was condemned and any man no matter how honorable in his dealings was classed as a cheat and a fakir if engaged in mining of late years however conditions in this respect have changed the number of men who have made fortunes in raining mining are so plentiful in almost every walk of life that the curse has been lifted from this great occupation and the returns have beenson been so great the opportunities for honest enrichment have become so numerous that the industry has been awarded the badge of legitimacy even in circles most noted for conservatism wall street even has opened its arms to mining millionaires and men of means on this continent and europe deal now as heavily in mining propositions ions and mining securities as erstwhile they did in bonds stocks and mortgages and the industry is now embraced by all alike with as much enthusiasm as it was formerly stron strongly kly condemned and ridiculed the reason is obvious strictly business methods now govern nearly all mining enterprises terp rises the day of the pig in the poke as far as mining is concerned is past and men now know what they are getting when they invest in mining property or mining shares or securities of any kind no guess work is indulged in examinations are made the purchaser is as thoroughly conversant of what he is doing as if he were investing in a team of horses a farm or some industrial or commercial proposition predicted results have followed A few hundred or a few thousand invested in mines or mining stocks have brought the investors thousands and millions in return we not only see mining kings and magnates in the west but we find them throughout the cites and towns of the east also every mine does no make a fortune for its owner nor does every business venture in other walks of life but it has been demonstrated time and time again that the percentage of success in mining is greater than is chronicled in other pursuits such as an investment in railroad stocks in industrial securities or in the gambling in stocks and bonds mining has more millionaires in its ranks than there are banking or manufacturing magnates and yet mining strictly speaking is still only in its infancy and where one man has been fortunate in this industry in the past a thousand will be more so in the future as at the present day the masses are beginning to realize more and more the legitimacy of the industry and the many irand grand opportunities offered through its avenues for safe and profitable investments |