Show INVESTING IN UTAH if it should prove to be true as reported on apparently good authority that hon W A dark clark of montana has bas made a heavy investment in utah mining property it will be a cause of 0 congratulation all around to the buyer as well as the seller and the people ot of the two states will have another strand interwoven ter woven with the coan commercial erceal band which binds them together toge aher but this Is a not all the vast and partly deve developed lopel resources of utah are being gradually recognized elsewhere As a matter ut ft fact they are and have been but partly recognized at home and too many ventures have been made by those whose ability to break through the barren crust and get at the paying strata bsh beneath was too limited the result banig bing failure discouragement and the spread of a general disbelief in the accessibility of most of our hidden treasures by any ordinary means this kind of thing like the dead as described in the ballad of berger travels fast and leaves enough mischief in its wake to keep legitimate enterprise busy for or a long time overcoming it when men who are thoroughly conversant with mining in its practical sense as well as the operation and control of mining affairs whether they be resident or distant engage with us in earnest and have the wherewith th to make their workings working result in satisfactory als consummations the experience j is as gratifying to the rest of us jhc are indirectly interested as to the projectors themselves the natural disposition to look out tor for ourselves and which is the breeder of that forbidden i evil known as envy finds all the nourishment it Is legitimately entitled to in the knowledge that mines of consequence cannot be worked in cor midst IRMA without some resultant good td the people and the commonwealth AV as a wu of course there is a more direct more substantial and consequently mot bame visible incentive to the investors and arle ers and as a rule they a are well entitled to it i t As suggested it spoils or at least re tards any enterprise ot at MOM moment t for those who are incapacitated from whatever cause from carrying it on properly to engage in it As was said by the late president garneld garfield an ope of pluck is worth a ton of luck aud and thin is true in a great measure of the mining industry but all the pluck in the world unaccompanied bythe by the necessary means bednal of striking down dali the stubborn and forbidding guardians of plutos dominions and entering into the midst of the con coaled treasures would be expended to in vain the result being the loss lose efah of AH that wax was spent and the gaining of nothing compensatory but rather the reverse men like mr dark clark of montana I 1 land and hon A W mccune of our own state have all the requisites for success good judgment great experience abundant nerve sufficient enterprise and an unlimited bank account when one hears that either of these has made an investment he instinctively reaches the conclusion and figuratively makes makee a record of it that something more than scratching exploiting and re reporting potting is going to result th that at some additional A A portion of the obscured wealth of old mother earth Is going to be uncovered and brought forth for the benefit of her children those gentlemen are always active not only at home but elsewhere mr mccune owns heavily in mining properties in the northwestern country all ot of which are paying investments showing that wherever he be pitches his hie tent enit good results must follow so with the montana man his investment here shows what has long been known but not sufficiently demonstrated that all of our productiveness in a mineral sense is not sufficiently understood because inadequately handled much as lids has been gained more a great ideal deal more remains behind we wish mr clark every success in his venture a wish which it may readily be understood is the forerunner of a conviction that he will be successful our fields of enterprise are ample and none of them gives more of promise than that of mining |