Show WE CAN CANNOT NOT SEE we can not see how anyone ean can bear the mining industry when such splendid results have been achieved in mining operations in this western country during the past few years and when so many magnificent fortunes have been made by those who have engaged in this fascinating pursuit arid yet strange to lo say there are those who condemn mining in all its branches because perchance they have taken a flyer in some worthless proposition of a mining character and have lost when we look around us and see the many gigantic mining enterprises that are successful when we see the large sums paid monthly by mining companies companie 3 in dividends we can not see why anyone can have the gall we will call it gall to say that mining is a failure and when we hear of the multitude of rich strikes that are almost daily being made in the many mining camps of this intermountain region we do not see how any fair and right minded man can retain his self respect and still maintain that more money is lost in mining than is ever made when we see the marvelous record made by tonopah To in nevada and when our friends and neighbors have made fortunes within a very brief period in goldfield tono sister camp and when these two new el dorados donados have broken the worlds record in the production of the precious metals from lode claims we do not see how anyone could have the courage to stand up and condemn an industry that is furnishing the commodities upon which is based the worlds currency as well as the worlds prosperity and advancement when our smelters shelters sm elters settle for ore that is worth 1000 a sack for ore that will go to the ton in its gold values we can not see how anyone but an imbecile will waste time in knocking the mining industry when he could just as well join the army of miners and prospectors who are scouring the mountains the everlasting hills in search of the treasure vaults wherein dania dam nature has stored her vast wealth in the vh precious metals which are open to the first comer even as were the mines or of the corn cora stock or as were the great placer fields of nf the klondike we can not see when millionaires are created yearly in the mining camps of the west when we turn out more mining kings kineg than there are railroad kings when the poor man of today is a rich man tomorrow tomorio W because of his success in mining operations how it is that mining is not more lefiti mate and profitable than are mercantile or manufacturing or kindred pursuits and occupations cupat ions we can not see when thero there is no competition in mining when the discovery of a rich and producing mine adds adds new wealth to jae channels of trade and c commerce Omm tree how it is that those thirsting and striving for gold can reiterate the threadbare statement the malicious lie that mining is a de delusion and a snare a profitless undertaking and occupation cu pation we can not see for we are from missouri sour |