Show 0 THE IN MINING the mining industry like all other oc andt andi pursuits has its macaw bers who are eternally sitting around waiting for something to turn up these individuals are so numerous in some of our mining camps that they comprise about one half of their population indeed they abound in such numbers that an active enterprising wideawake wid awake and progressive man upon entering within the environments of these parasites upon legitimate industry could hardly throw a piece of country rock in any direction without hitting a micawber Mic awber who has been bolong so long perched upon a fine ledge of mineral bear ing quartz doing nothing and waiting tor for someone to come along and develop it for him that years ago he became part and parcel of the landscape indigenous to the soil as it were and so thoroughly adverse to labor that he has come to think of himself as a of the lilies of solomons sons which toil not neither do they spin unless it be to spin long and improbable stories of the immense wealth of the properties to which they hold no title but that of simple location and relocation ail ad finicum fini tum the micawber Mic awber family Is a large one and the presence of one of this cult in a mining camp is a menace to its growth and prosperity by hook or crook he comes into possession of valuable ground which he holds year after year by simply posting his notice or by the stretching of a 50 bill so that it will cover the assessment annually required by the government and wera were it not for the incoming of men of enterprise ter prise the camp in which he resides and infests would forever be minus of any wealth producers and dividend payers and a there is hardly ever more than three or four of these in a camp which with conditions more favorable could give birth to a dozen silver kings to a dozen great bonanzas when an individual or company begins active development and exploration in any camp of merit the micawber Mic awber continues to vegetate vegi tate on the rocks his is a waita waiting game he will not work himself but he is 15 perfectly willing that someone else should prove the nier merit of the locality in which be is interested and the hope is strong with w in him that the active enterprising man mall 1 tha the property will w 0 development of adjoining open up the ledge at depth to within few feet of his own neglected and undeveloped property indeed the hang around a mine in course of development like a band of cf hungry coyotes around a flock of sheep and the moment a big strike is made they begin at once in the endeavor to interest capital for the development of their own particular holdings basing their claims for their alleged value solely upon the showing already made in the property of the progressive man who is willing to spend his money to prove up his mine rather than to wait for the tardy movements of his micawber Mic awber neighbors there are many very valuable prospects and mines in deaver beaver county that could be transformed into producing and paying mines with the expenditure of a little labor and money but their owners are waiting to see they are waiting to see ho how w the majestic comes out how the deaver beaver har rison enterprise will turn out and how much money sam newhouse will make out of his cactus in stockton it is the same way and the micawber Mic Alic awber fraternity of that camp is awaiting results at the honerine and the stockton and a few other properties in park valley conditions are about the same and a number of other good camps in the west are being held back in much the same way when they would and could all be prosperous and flourishing but for the micawber Mic awber element that is ever patiently waiting for someone to come along and drop a wad of greenbacks green backs or a purse of 20 gold pieces into their laps if the micawber Mic awber while sitting around waiting for something to turn up would obligingly turn into a pillar of salt the change would be beneficial to the district that is poisoned by his presence and the monument so formed would be an object lesson to those inclined to benefit at the expense of others |