Show the prospector anahis and his burro J man is a curious animal no matter how you size him up said the prospector to his burro and the average prospector takes the pot when it comes to queer doings for he has more eccentricities to the square inch in his makeup make up than the old mad mad w wo 0 o thinks she knows all about raising children the farmer plants his crop with the expectation and intention of having a harvest time about the time the melons are ripe and when the festive apple offers attractions to the boy on the other side of the fence the banker takes your money because he expects to put it out at interest unless he feels impelled to take a pleasure trip to canada and the fisherman invests 25 in tackle arid and artificial flie files i in order that he may give his family a treat of mountain trout worth on the market about the prospector however in many instances seems to lose si sight lit altogether of the object of his arduous trip into the mountain canyons and the wilds of the desert for months generally ho bra will work like a beaver and endure all kinds and breeds of privations until lie he has found a prospect that looks good to him when his mission is seemingly forgotten and the objective point of his trip is lost sight of entirely As a matter of fact ahei he has found anything of real or prospective value all bets are off with jilin him and lie he hangs around camp as if he a care in the cie world and if his only object in life were to tank up on all the poor whisky lie he could find and as if his only ambition was to break the faro bank and drive the roulette wheel out of business I ile he le is satisfied that lie he has millions in his discovery and that a t little woric would make him an object of presidential comment a citizen in the samo same clays class with harriman and rockefeller and yet he will not do anything in the matter of intelligent and systematic development being satisfied to let his millions remain wh where are nature put them while his account w with ith the grocer the barkeep bar keep and his landlady assumes splendid proportions or else he will play the hermit in some isolated region and 1 barely arely make a living where by a little effort he could be on easy street and make something out of himself and his property the average prospector after he has made a discovery is like the lilly of the field for he sows bows not neither does he reap he only exists the excitement of making a great discovery was too much for his mental makeup make up and the reaction action re was vas so excessive that it will be a year or more before lie he will recover so that he can begin tu to take out his mineral wealth in carload lots and so he rests in this last respect he is like a burro for if there is any one thing that a burro can do and do well it is to rest day and night and then some 1 I 1 want to tell you old long ears continued the prospector mines are not found they are made once in a while a prospector finds a bonanza but such instances are rare and even a fine surface showing must be developed before it can call take rank as a regular producing and paying mine but the mere possession of a prospect of merit will not make a vanderbilt of its owner and gold in the ground in the sand is of no more value than so much country rock unless it is taken out and put in circulation 1 I see that it is immaterial to you whether the gold is in the rock or in the bank and this shows the little interest you have in life outside of h having avin a breakfast on gunny sacks and bacon rinds and yet you look sometimes as if you had money to burn you fill yul your position in life but adding one dollar to another dollar is not your mission none whatever and yet I 1 know that you seemed to take an interest in the old prospector we found way back baal in the hills during our last trip and thought him pretty snug and comfortable in his little shack built against the rocks where he has been living all by his own lonesome during the past ten years and yet this man inherited many gifts he had a good education was healthy and strong and could have made his mark in the world had lie he been possessed of any ambition and to back all of these qualifications lie he had a little mine back of his shack that is a bonanza in ill embryo I 1 sampled the property and the ore assayed from 15 to in gold to the ton and I 1 estimated that he had tons of this class and grade of ore in sight while active development would open the pro property lerty so that it could produce a million a year ear easily and yet what do you think this man never sold more than a ton of ore olle yearly and was wals content to live in his isolated locality year after year did I 1 say live why lie he only existed and yet lie he has the chance to make a name for himself himsel fp to amass wealth and to draw attention to his district which would in time make it as popular as goldfield as tonopah To round moun tain or rawhide it if I 1 had that mine I 1 would work it to the limit I 1 would make a noise that would sound like a successful mining man mail I 1 would have mining men tearing into the district in automobiles four h orse rigs on horseback and on burros and in due ume tf me I 1 would take a pleasure trip to yellowstone park to the sandwich wands islands and even to europe you could not go with me however for you love your ease too much and so I 1 would leave you with another hermit I 1 know of who is living in a canyon on the other side of the mountain and who like you and the average prospector has no conception of the worth and value ot of god given gifts if ts |