Show AS AN INDUSTRY mining is looked upon by man eastern people as only a game of chance the swindles that have been perpetrated upon hordes of eastern capitalists is probably the main acason why the of mining is looked upon with distrust and fear As far bade as fifteen yes ten and in most cases fhe ears ago people became wild with excitement over the bood fortune of some acquaint in ce and could not pack their grip sacks oon enough to reach the scenes where great wealth was accumulated others with money purchased stocks of minea that containing millions of ore in people were swindled b reports and have not fully recovered from the effects practically alli mining is one of our mot important indus tries and the reason why so many fail in the business is because they enter into it without any knowledge of how to use even a pick or shovel what farmei think of a man who would attempt to cultivate some of the abton hills ol 01 that country they ifould put him down as an ignoramus and call him no farmer it is justson with the practical miner the sees a man take a pick to strike a blow he janows by the macnei in M inch he does his work that he has no knowledge of mining tell this new band to go to the vein and take out ore or place him on the dump with instructions to sort the high grade aiom the low grade ore and he is liable to have the two grades mixed up or dump the good and save the poor and be just as ignorant in his operations as the man who never saw a faim and has an idea that crops will grow among rocks and yield as veil as those planted in the low lands free from stones in early das gold was found in abend anca in california A with a few das experience and teaching could wash out as much of the dieci ous custas an old miner but since the dust and nuggets have been nearly all up miners and prospectors have turned their attention to quartz raining and by cars of careful study and experience have succeeded in banging bunging this industry up to a system and making it one of the leading important industries ore mills unknown in the united states until quartz mining was entered into ins in s gennity was set to work to deuce machinery so as to reduce the ore and extract the precious metal from the hard flint quartz men were employed to manufacture the necessary machinery mechanics were engaged to erect the mills and hoisting mining took a new form and is now practically as much an industry and ais valuable as any other branch of business on this continent in tho hand of alio inexperienced perien ced it fails as a man would fail to build a house male a watch 01 shoe a horse who never had any training in the business A superintendent who has never seivel an apprenticeship at mining and has in his employ foie men with no better knowledge of the business than himself and incompetent workmen the property will invariably go down no miner or prospector pio hill attempt to develop ban en around his knowledge tells him when he examines the rock it will pa to work it or not and thoe who foster the idea that they can become miners with a few days or weeks experience we would say to them be at once undeceived nothing causes this important industry to fall into disrepute as much as placing it in tho hands of inexperienced workmen A well managed farm in and about it denotes thrift and a of the business and without these three it is liable to become giop erty |