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Show Big Mines with Small Names. Many of tho great mines of the West wero dovoloped by men who had comparatively llttlo capital. Tho Aspen, which has yielded about $23,-000,000, $23,-000,000, gavo Its fortunate lessee $407,000 In forty-flvo dnys. Ho had spent only $8,000 In oponlng It. Tho Hccla, of Durkc, Idaho, was oponed by six dairymen, who a fow weeks ago refused 2,C70,000 for it Ex-Senator Thomas Kcarns, general man ngor of tho Sllvor King, which has paid $10,605,000 In dividends, snyff that It cost $58,000 to put tho property prop-erty on a paying basis. Ho and his partners had nothing but their wages and savings from them when they began be-gan to develop tho mlno. Leslie's Weekly. |