Show 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 f THE prospector j M this is the prospectors busy season new mines milles are being discovered diCov cred and old mines unprofitable un under der former working ff conditions are being opened up high metal prices a and nd improved metallurgical practice are two factors that are doing more than anything else to put mining on a safer basis the prospector and his prospect are entitled to more consideration from capital than they are now receiving big mining interests and the numerous brokerage houses dealing in mining shares seem prone to forget that every mine was once a prospect dealing principally in listed dividend paying stocks blocks they are often too quick to condemn the little fellow raising funds to develop some prospect mining territory into a producer they fall to realize that it if the mining industry is too grow prospects must be developed it the big dividend paying mining stocks in which they are trading each day had not been brought from the prospect stage into the dividend class through the expenditure of capital thousands of investors would still be loaning their money on bonds and drawing down 4 per cent or 5 per cent interest instead of making from 10 per cent to per cent or more through the purchase of these seasoned mining securities from tile the time of the discovery of gold in california the prospector has been the trail blazer tor for western civilization without the mining industry the west would still bo be the great american desert the sahara of america san francisco would no doubt still be a trading post salt lake city a small mormon colony and denver a dry farming center it if mining wealth had not made these grand cities necessary the prospector blazed the way for the farmer the manufacturer and the business man no matter what N hat line of activity he Is following when bock womack stuck his pick in the gold king vein while prospecting near dear rikes pikes peak lie he started a flow of 0 gold from colorados bonanza camp of cripple creek that now aggregates gre gates the magnificent total of over womack the prospector transformed a cow pasture in to the worlds greatest gold camp and made it possible for other poor men to become millionaires stratton the carpenter and burns the plumber by their discovery of 0 the independence and portland mines added millions to their wealth and the wealth of the nation built up cities and made possible the cultivation of a vast farming acreage which could not be profitably tilled without the miners gold harry stimler and jim butler prospectors put goldfield and tonopah on the map and added millions to nevadas grand record as a wealth producer joe nenzel did the sarn through his discovery 0 of f the riches of the camp of rochester in the same state phil brouk and tom kellogg and a burro a all three ethree prospectors as decided by tile the court discovered the famous bunker hill sullivan mine in the Coeur calenes dA lenes of dabo which has ba 9 paid to stockholders in dividends the court decided that the owners of the burro were entitled to a one third interest in the property inasmuch as the burro being tied to a tree became impatient and pawed the ground thus disclosing the famous lode from which the bulk of the production of the bunker hill sullivan mine has since been taken the mining history of the rocky mountain country is filled with romance of mine discoveries the prospector put every mine every mining camp and every western city on the map in the first instance ile he knows nothing about gambling in mining shares oat at he makes possible the papi 4 which licile io id tu tb s 3 dally daily atten attention tiou of thousands of bro brokers k investors and speculators through out the nation so why not encourage the prospector anil and ally iby not net encourage tile the honest mining promoter in ills his effort to make a mine out of the prospectors discovery denver dally daily mining and financial world |