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Show BOOST A LITTLE. The Salt Lake Mining Review gives a llttlo sermon on "boosting." It Insists In-sists that "boosting" Is what has made every mining camp. Following a word about Tonopah'sdlscovcry by J. Ilutler and ills mule. Tho Review olTcrsa word that ought to be encouraging to prospectors here as well as in every other undeveloped Held In the west. The Review says: It Is not because Nevada Is possessed possess-ed of a greater or richer mineraliza tion than other western states that It is tho most popular mining section In the west today; but Its rapid rise Is due to the pushing, the boosting, that has been done of lute; this pushing, this boosting, this careful Investigation Investiga-tion and the presence of ten thousand prospectors In the hills and canyons resulting In such marvelous discoveries discover-ies that one could not ignoro them, If they would; each big Unci leading to another In rapid succession, and each salo being but the forerunner of another anoth-er of great proportions, while from every direction there Is a rush of capitalists capi-talists to seo which shall llrst be able to pick up this or that embryonic bonanza. bon-anza. Kvcry strike, a4 soon as It is made, is reported from sea to sea, and In a day, almost, towns and cities spring up where, but a few weeks, a few months, before, the solitude of the wilderness held sway and the habitation habita-tion of man was not known. Push a little. Iloost. There Is hardly a mining state in the west that Is not as good as is Nevada. All thai they need Is more enterprise, more push. Take Utah, Idaho, Arizona nnd several other western states and put an army of ten or llftceu thousand prospectors In each, keep them there two or three years, and it Is safe to say that discoveries would be made In each commonwealth that would amae the world, that would turn the tide of popularity until in each of the states mentioned there would be as much excitement, as much success, and as much mining activity as is to be sound In the great state of Nevada today. to-day. Push a little; boost. and get Into the swim." |
