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Show MORE ACTIVITY THAN FOR THREEYEARS PAST Tho -forecast now Is that thoro will bo moro activity in mining In tho noxt six months, both Jn tho mines and on tho stock board, than thcro hns boon for threo years past. It used to ha an old saying that pcoplo could not look much Into tho ground, beyond tho ond of tho drill and pick, and tho drill and tho pick havo boon doing fine work for somo months now. A great many now oro bodies havo been uncovered nnd making clear that beneficent old nnturo mudo neither mistake nor held out falso hopes when sho planted her mines In tho hills of Utah. And when mon try ono thing and another In or-dor or-dor to tiansfor somo of tho monoy from other men's pockets to their own pock-otB, pock-otB, tho fact comes back to them that If thoy can got what !b equivalent to native monoy out of tho hills, thoy can havo monoy In their own pockets without taking It out of other men's pockets; nnd tho other fact is apparent to them thnt whllo It was n habit of very many pcoplo to any that mining Is a risky buslnoss, it is all the samo truo thnt all tho monoy In tho world camo from pursuing that snmo risky buslnoss. Two years ago a mining purchnso was laid before somo English 'gentlemen. Tho deliberated over It i. for somo time, and finally turned It down with tho rcmnrk that they preferred pre-ferred to koop their monoy whero It was absolutely safe rather than to risk it in tho uncertainties of an Amoricnn Amor-icnn mlno. Tho American mlno Is all right and Just as full of promiso ns ovor, but thoso English gentlemen are not nearly so suro of tho nbsoluto safety of their monoy as thoy wero two years ago; and that thcro Is an clement cle-ment of uncertainty nbout nil flnlto things. Thoro Is this lo sny nbout tho initios of our western Btntcs; tho most or them nro good, and most or thorn when prosecuted enrnostly nnd faithfully faith-fully and courageously nro prono to bring gonorous rewards. doodwln's Wcokly. o |
