Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-09 | Page 7 | No More Brass-Band Methods in Mining

NO MORE BRASS-BAND METHODS IN MINING He whoso business takes him syBtcmat-lcally syBtcmat-lcally to mining district after district la almost nightly regaled with story after story of tho dishonest promoter of the boom days whoso pay streak was lu Pittsburg. He E003 during tho day whero tho abortive attempts of retired preachers, preach-ers, granger mining companies, etc, to develop a mino have failed, says an expert ex-pert writing In the "Engineering Sr. Mining Min-ing Journal, Ho Is mado ponslve by tho sight of fairly woll developed properties lying Idle because a "practical man" i built a jlm-crow mill which lost the mineral down tho creek. Ho in pained to note othor cases whore otherwise com- potent men have, like the man In the parable, failed to count tho cost. Nearly Near-ly all In the past, and many still in the present, havo looked upon mining sis an adventure, a chance, a lucky strike, but not as ik business. Small wonder that the vast mujorlty meet the fate of tho adventurer ad-venturer and tho "fall guy." The publicity attondant upon tho trial of Whlttaker Wright and others of his Ilk, the public :md private disclosures of hundreds of other dishonest promoters, tho actlvltv of the postoffleo department, the many su-Uclen In the popular magazines, maga-zines, the enactnionU or "blue-sky laws, and tho almost invariable failure of amateur am-ateur mining companies, Iislvo all combined com-bined to drive the brass-band promoter and tho Itinerant peddler of mining stock from the field.