Show MCH MINES ARE 1 NOT ALL GONE MINING folks are waging a controversy among themselves as to whether any good mines are lett left and whether the prospector ot of the old type stands any chance ot of finding them thern if they do exist the engineer remarks or writes or testifies som where that mines are getting harder and harder to find and the man on the spot who la Is hunting tor for mines or who has baa mines to sell promptly confounds the pessimistic one by elting citing examples was not such and such a mine discovered last year or the year before and la is it not certain that others will be found controversy la Is futile both contestants are right it will always be possible to discover now new mines a or to reopen and re rework work old mines at a profit through better business management or metallurgical or geologic skill but the percentage ot of such opportunities will most certainly be a dwindling one in the future just as it has dwindled so BO greatly in the past according to the engineering aud and mining jo journal press ot of new york there was a time in the early halcyon days ot of the west when a well known mining enterpriser uttered a hla his famous dictum to hell with a mine that wont stand bad management those days are legendary and in spite ot of brilliant renewals ot of mining minine glory as at intervals a great new camp la Is discovered or a great promise ot of a now new camp even it a promise unfilled unfolds itself to the public the inevitable result ot of intensive search and unbelievably efficient and swift exploitation makes itself steadily felt nevertheless it Is IB true that we cannot afford to lose the prospector even it if his numbers are fewer he should all the more be enc encouraged outraged his services cannot ie be di duplicated Pi neither the engineer nor the geology st can undertake to do his work or till fill his place or stop the gap he would leave were he not active assuredly there Is hopp bopp tor for his there are many nooks in mountains and desert yet to be thoroughly examined and even especially in the north and south ot of the conal continent nent lands unexplored or only halt half explored while his major activities will expand in ever increasing circles away from the old seats 0 of intensive mining the day of the prospector has not passed as yet |