Show fithen WHEN THE SPRING TIME 1 l COMES ie montana is the present el dorado of min miners r tag tap rush uli to that a auriferous urlce i rous I 1 and ind argent ferrii region is something like ike that produced by the mining fever f the palm paim pal pai iest lest days of Cali fornias yield of gold and silver the outfits uru ire curious characteristic and varied but much better adopted to the service in view nondescript though they may be than many of those which ware were extemporized or pressed into service in earlier mining days in the west idaho nevada california and other parts are sending forth their hardy adventurous crowds to dig delve and prospect through montana but the miners of today to day are different in many respects from the class who stampeded across the continent eighteen years ago on the same errand nearly two decades of experience toil and labor have hardened them and given them a keener insight into prospects of success always excitable while they are ready to start with a rush for any new gold field or silver district that promises a large yield for their labors fixing up a pack horse and footing it or riding one and leading another at an hours notice they are not quite so easily gulled now as in the past the cry of rich rich like the cry of wolf in the fable has been heard by them so often that they are wary and more cautious in seeking reliable evidence that the reputed richness has an existence the spring has com corn 0 to utah as well Bs as to V montana dithe the spring 11 that was to fill our mountains with miners and lay our valleys open with placer diggings but a postponement has been agreed upon and next spring wo we are to have the promised visitation how now long will interested parties mendaciously seek to gull the mining population about the reputed gold and silver wealth wealth of utah and deceive themselves at the same time they have succeeded suc ceded in the past in exciting expectations in a few who carefully prospected mountains kenyons kan gulches and valleys east west north and south and while that prospecting was going on rich developments were promised in the spring A few soft brained souls inspected the dirt from cellar excavations with microscopic minuteness and though wonderfully disappointed they strove to convince themselves d that hat the spring would bring the desired success and gratify ther their hopes Am ancient elent history of this territory tells of a soap mine being found at one time it was wag good soap too but unfortunately the wag who planted I 1 I 1 the mine had not enough of the ous article to bury a lelent sufficient quantity for the sell to be successfully prolonged very likely some exceedingly rich gold mines might be found close by in the same way if anybody would go to the and expense of making them we have no objection to the mineral wealth of the territory being developed in fact we wish it but we object to honest men being drawn by baseless as rances su away from the scene of their labors on a worse than wild goose chase however it is to come in the spring sprin g next spring though which will give a summer and autumn to crack it up a winter to sound its coming glory and another postponement ye we are no great believers in the precious metals being found in utah in any quantity even in the spring we had the testimony of some of the most intelligent miners in the west last fall who had prospected for months untiringly through the territory that gold and silver were here but in quantities so small and so widely apart that they would not pay for the trouble of going to where they are much less the labor of working for them they had been deceived into coming here by the worn out song of which in the spring was the chorus and they departed satisfied j with their experience and satisfied that their search had been a prolonged and thorough one they said baid when they returned to salt lake lak again it would be no not noi in the spring but late in the fall to eat salt lake apples and enjoy the fruits which now that the spring has come we have rich promise of next spring if well yes next spring will bring wonders when it comes who knows but the california earthquakes may travel eastward and throw the sought for dirt to the surface or burst open the quartz veins and expose the precious dust dus tto to view or the chap who stumbled over overa a big 0 nugget and went so crazy afterwards that he could not remember where it was may come to his senses seii seli ses and the whole thing be revealed these or something similar may occur or the mormons cormons Mor mons may be made to tell where they have hid the gold and silver that are in the mountains for of course they are in the mountains and as prospectors pro specters have not been able to find them it follows that 1 the 41 Mor 1 mormon Kormon mons sf must have lild hid them somewhere but that is just like what those wonderful mormons cormons Mor mons do it would not be astonishing if somebody were to telegraph east that they had moved great salt lake to the top of the west mountains and buried all the miners in the territory in its former bed they are reported to have done things ai as improbable as that and it must be true for it sald said about the mor mons 11 |