Show MYTH AND reality we cannot but feel that a great many otherwise sober minded meo men are aft losing their bead in their search ter for precious metals anil and in the attempt to iet get rich without working much or for it the has already given the advice that this inclination should be restrained estral ned and that instead of rushing off pell mell into mining camps campa or roaming over the hills bills as prospectors meo men with families would do far better nod find come out richer at le end of one two five or teu tea years as the case may be if t they bey w would plant the ves upon a little pie piece ce of grou ground leased or ground if no personal 1 ownership can be secured ard abd get into close touch with mother nature and the soli soil agriculture in any inhabited part of this ibis state a sure return upon the labor invested and no larmer farmer need be to in doubt as to making a living for himself and family if he be uses ordinary thrift this not at all assured where men waste time labor and means in chasing a willo will 0 o the wisp especially when that deceptive thing is concealed beneath the earth earths a dense surface and is only tangible when at all in narrow veins and seams which remain forever closed except to the few A friend gives us an example of be wildness and folly of much of f this prospecting work and the locating ot of claims in a report of a recent pedestrian tour up city creek canyon aud along the benches that slope toll that gorge near its opening into this valley stakes have been set by scores and the wayfarer is every now and aben notified that a designated spot I 1 is one of the four corners of such and add such a claim one of these locations ts is on the flat just asa above the capitol rounds arounds reservoir ft a place where there is about as much chance of discovering mineral as in the old anoble yard of this city the claim is labeled the bar prise 11 taking its name no doubt from the astonishment of its owners that it should contain even so much metal on the rubbish heap of old oll cans broken bottles bottle and smashed broc crockery kery which marks one of the corners our in armant says he finds no fault with the date of the I 1 location bebra pebra february ary 1896 but he disputes the given date or of discovery 1 Ja january 1896 being an old timer himself he be says be has baa personally known of the discovery of this particular tract for over thirty years while authentic history shows that it has been known ever since ba the luid eummer of 1847 perhaps this is but one of a hundred or more like instances in chiq vicinity and in other places place some of the claims may yield a remuneration for the theotime time and labor employed employ ed most Amr silly we hope so but it to la more likely that the great majority will not pay for the be corner poets used to io bound aug and the lead pencil eumea in ID the property io in the mean time men go on throwing away time lime and ad labor in courting fickle fortune while rhile broad rich acre teeming with fertility inviting lovit log the labor of the ibe and giving guaranty of a safe and abundant living lie unused on every band |