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Show H Anent mining booms the H Denver Post remarks: This is H the season of the year when min- H ing booms arc hatched Why it H should be at this season in pref- H erence to any other is one of those H things no one can And out. One H never hears of a boom started in H the summer, for that is when they H die out. They are all started up H in winter when it is difficult to V' prospect and analyse the condition H of the country and no correct H estimate of the possibilities can H readily be formed. And then H people begin to come in and settle H down and wait for spring to open H In the meantime the settlement H grows and more people arrive, H attracted there by a iio.ibility H that in course of time something H may turn up and create lively H times for the new camp. H And spring comes and with it H many new arrivals and business H in the camp begins to flourish as H everyone starts with great ex- H pectations. The pio-pectors do H their share in making things boom H by starting reports of wondeiful H finds in the adjacent hills and once H in a while one of them will exhibit H a piece of ore which he has H carried with him for years just H for such purposes and tell the H tenderfeet that an assaj of that H ore goes way up into the thou- H sands. He tells the truth, too, H but he is very careful not to let H anyone into the secret where the H ore originally came from, H Pri"i passes and no producer H has yet been found. There are H indications of pay oie here,. their H and m other localities, but no vein H that could be traced, no pocket H which would pay in walking out. H Things begin to look shaky fur H the new cmnp. Summer is near- H ly gone and no producer ck--H velops. Some of those who hud j settled in the new ci.mp when ii H was but a few da) s old begin tc H pack up and move out and others j who have investtd some of their H own and more of their friends' H money begin to show signs o Hill uneasiness. The old pro-.pecor KNj who when asked for his opim. i ftpj en the possibilities of the camp Rzjj reckons that they hive uot gotn m$m down deep enough y t o jus il W$M anyone in tying that the camp is &! not worth a continental. Jitit ii Hjm a day or so one may notice Mu H old prospector packing his jicl H and reaching out for pastures new Br That is as safe an indication that Bl the camp is a failure as anyone B wants, and from that on the doom Hj o! the camp ii scaled, |