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Show H Mining H HTHE forecast now is that there will be more H activity in mining in the next six months, both H in the mines and on the stock board, than there H has been for three years past. It used to be an old H saying that people could not look much into the H ground, beyond the end of the drill and pick, and H the drill and the pick have been doing fine work K for some month" now. A great many new ore- H bodies have been uncovered and making clear that benificent old nature neither made a mistake nor held out false hopes when she planted her mines in the hills of Utah. And when men try one thing and another in order to transfer some of the money from other men's pockets to their own pockets, the fact comes back to them that if they can get what is equivalent to native money out of tho hills, they can havo money in their own pickets without taking it out of other men's pockets; and the other fact is apparent to them that while It was a habit of very many people to say that mining is a risky business, it is all the same true that all the money in the world came from pursuing that same risky business. Two years ago a mining purchase was laid before some English gentlemen. They deliberated over it for some time, and Anally turned it down with tho remark that they preferred to keep their money where it was absolutely safe rather than to risk it in tho uncertainties of an American mine. The American mine is all right and just as full of promise as ever, but it is quite possible that those English gentlemen are not nearly so sure of the absolute safety of their money as they were two years ago; and that they are realizing now that there is an element of uncertainty about all finite things. There is this to say about the mines of our western states; the most of them are good, and most of them when prosecuted earnestly and faithfully and courageously are prone to bring generous rewards. |