Show LP n no W H ES 4 mm 4 m I 1 NI N r 0 wa ay 7 in a recent letter to tile mining ing investor of denver colorado L A martin of salt lake ants on oil tile recent big suit between the kings its as follows let tile me call your you r attention for a moment to what lies back of nf the kite now being paid to the alie silver kin king co consolidated Alin mining irig company of park city by tile hie silver king coalition com coill ciany of the samo same district you know probably in a general dy ay that tile consolidated sued tile coalition and got judgment for and that tile the addition made by the appelgate Ap court and tile the interest on the judgment brought the total to a bittic little more than but have you considered the fact that the of the original ori gindl award was only half the amount that tile the united states court found after hear hearing bill the available evidence lias has been taken from a single claim the vesuvius in the park city district to be more specific it was less thara half the amount extracted extrac td for tile court deducted a reasonable reason ible allowance for the cost of minin mining g we have tile the solemn verdict of it a high court that a single in one claim yielded net pr profit in silver and lead just remember that please when someone tells you that mining g dies not puy pay this mining paid not only tile the com companies panics but the stockholders of the companies com parries the coalition paid a large wirt jf f tile the out in dividends arid and the consolidated stockholders will receive a goodly portion of the judgment Is as j dividend and profit as much more by the enhance value of their shares ih cires following the payment ant or of the debts of tile the fellow with a roudi grouch on the mining industry because ehause lie he bought some stock once in a wildcat mine or did his buying at a tile ape apex c of a boom instead ol of in the touch or of a der dine cline will say that the vesuvius ore body was but one in i n ten thousand and that hint the hie chances of finding ai nother sire are ten thousand to one against you yon this is one of tile the alf half that are more deceptive thin than downright falsehoods the in ques tion was rih po sibly ten thousand thou ore bedits ire are opened fur for every one which buns tuns out as well as did this one hut but think what that means ten thousand aind ore shots varying from tile the rich iless of the he veu vesuvius vitis down to the pockets that hardly pay for the mining of them true you may not ge get t a vesuvius vc alvi but you may get one of the hundreds of lesser prizes that will pay you more in ill a few weeks or months than your money would bring at interest in as many years that vesuvius Ves livius find fund all the discoveries that led up to it were made by men who took look chances in tile the beginning they had no more positive knew knowledge than you that the silver king lad had tile the makings of a great mine they rhey upon tile the facts that were known to everybody they were poor men working miners and you need not doubt that they went without a good many luxuries and comforts too to buy the supplies and pay for itic tic dalbor that was necessary in tile the development of their pros pait lt their outlook was not a better belter than you may ilive in any one of a score of pros pacts tile the sime sillie mountain range they were in a now new section of country a long distance from the alie paying mines and as it turned out they had to sink several hundred feet before they proved their mine to be a profitable enterprise I 1 wont aly that you if you have the courage and determination ion of these men can bs be a millionaire but it is a certainty licit if they lad been cast in the mould of your scoffing friend they would will sill be working for wages instead of occupying enviable positions as rich and influential citizens of the stat on the other side of this famous case are the owners of tile silver king consolidated they have lave shown I 1 their heir ster nig lnig qualities in it a different way they lid did not work with picks arld and drills but with dollars and let me tell you that it takes some nerve to pour the dollars into a proposition of this kind your pessimistic friend would not do itile ithe would rather throw over the fighting chance of a brilliant brilli int success and plod along the awty path than bo be burde burdened ried with the worry of the contest let us take off our hats 0 ro o the investors of cincin na i who furnished furnish eci 1 the money to sink tile the silver king kin ed cd shaft t 1100 f feet beet without w ill lout a dollar or a pound of ore in return to drift 2000 feet to the south and sink a merely to protect their interests in a clitia whose resources were problematical lema to enter into a law against a powerful corporation with unlimited resources and to t continue nue th the a unproductive working shaft to the 1100 1400 level dont you think that men who bore all these expenses and the tile the stockholders aud arid kept up the continuous campaign for money mere money and still more money deserved success do you think that any industry the one that you depend upon for a living for instance would so go very far if we did nt not have investors cf c this cali calibre bret t |