Show the prospector I 1 and his burro al r ab the literature that is being sent out by some mining companies and a nd promoters said the prospector to his burro would be regarded as curiosities a thousand years from now and would find a place in college archives and in different museums as valuable relies relics of a prehistoric age some ot of them make dandy reading even now but when the relic hunters dig them up ten or twenty centuries hence that portion of them descriptive of formation and ore occurrences will be looked upon as frenzied geology even now many so called mining I 1 experts are secretly if not openly laughed at and some of them are so idiotic in their descriptions script ions airs that no one but an ignorant promoter or a fake mining company would publish their reports and the only reason they are published is to befuddle the inexperienced investor to corral him by glittering generalities and the use of language with which he is not familiar but which looks all right because he does not understand it to the general public a mining proposition must be mighty good and worth at least a dollar a share when the expert who examines it says the lava flow becomes less and less as we follow the anticline and the eroded strata and geyser depositions of conglomerate contain hydro andesite copper along 0 the line ot of the ascending and descending waters is found an altered intrusive diorite and the iron seems to bo be so heavily associated with the altered diorite that it is evidently the original magma of the ore the submergence of the region with its secondary depositions interrupted by volcanic eruptions and mass elev elevations actions has been alternating up to a comparatively recent tim as shown by horizontal beds and tilted strata of calman caiman ite or of sodium found in various parts of the district now what do you think of that old long ears that jar the inter collated cockles cackles of your heart just think of the wave vave of admiration that must sweep over the intended investor upon reading such a report as that th at the T he whole matter would be as clear as mud to him and he would immediately invest his in a proposition of such a brilliant promise such learning would overwhelm him and he would be led like a lamb iamb to the slaughter 1 I see by the way that you hump your back as if you were going to buck off your pack that you are inclined to think that the report of the expert was both clear and lucid but your ideas come along feet foremost quite frequently and it is a good thing for fo the investing public that the taking up of a mining proposition does not depend upon any report you might make you are good in your line which is often the finding of ore the discovery of bonanzas but never in making geological reports none whatever you have your good parts but I 1 am sorry to see that you take sides with people whose gift of gab is only equal to your own and equally as intelligible 1 I want to tell you that the man to tie to in mining operations is the man who has had experience the man who knows ore when tre he sees it and who pays more attention to the ore in si sight ht than he does to the magma and hydrostatic andesite aude site A diarrhoea of words proves nothing excepting that the individual using them is as soft in his head as you are in your attachment to any old gray mare that may come along the report of this expert proves nothing and in it he tells nothing that a mining man would want to know it is a case of cruelty to saddle a property with such a report and worse than useless more it is idiotic and when I 1 hire an expert to report on my ground I 1 will employ some 0 old la mining man who does not know the difference between original magma and an antio linal intrusive diorite but who can tell ore when he sees it and who can tell how much pay rock there is in sight |