Show profitable enterprise efto long and too generally tie im pres slon has prevailed loss was a shadow that like a vulture followed the path w ay of mining enterprise the untruth that two dollars have been put in mines for every one taken out has almost into a proverb notwithstanding the fact that the currency of the world came from the mines and eliat much of the same met i a is absorbed in alie arts and that the gold and silver mines of tl is country are prod icing more than annually if it ie true the I 1 product of alie i ast year cost 1 en tl e glnn g and astry roust be admitted to be in 1111 profitable business I 1 ho absurdity of thoc large however is suo chent to prove its falsity niile itis truo that a great amount of money has been i aid out that brought no return that the re cord of losses charged to tl e account of mining is apt ailing in its magnitude it is true that tho mining industry can show larger and more re liable returns for the money invested in it etian any oil er recognized busi ness tint can bo named it must be understood that money paid for stock certificates by cl ironic mikii g company organizers or strangers based upon location stakes and assay carti cates is not money put into a mine nor into mining it bears i 0 more blance to mining than wl cat deals on the cl icaco board of trade do to farm ing blind purchases of interest in mining claims without examination of alie character of alie formation or location wittier it las ore or by whom or ion it is managed cannot upon any reasonable basis bo recognize rec ed as mining as no one would claim that an unconsidered investment in any direction was business AU orough investigation of the avail ablo facts shows conclusively tl it large major ity of tha business men of this country have almost universally found mate mining investments profitable table wl en made upon business as would make any other investment As a mailer of fact a majority of the 1 caa lest cai ila lists and million aires of tins country owe tl air vast ac s of wealth to judicious mining investment and it w be dit we ahn k to 1 od in any of II 11 e larger cities castor west very many prominent business men alio are not more or less interested in mining 11 ase facts arc well establish ed and so generally i t that now in tl 0 present stage of mining 1 astory in acknowledgment of aci bated or ser ious loss and failure is such a reflection rel lection upon business ability and good judg ment tl at a man may well before 1 e condemns 1 by such an admission irk city is not enjoying that wild bustle and business rush ex by many towns in nevada dur ing tl e palmy days of tl e comstock or during the recent b tit lake real estate boom chois i eless a decidedly forwald movement move nent all along tl e line leiis eprim g tl at is truly gratifying aler building boom bids fair to grow into very 1 lions as the summer advances and 11 e general volume of business in all lines is steadily dily g even hough money matters are a little close iho mines are making a si did showing and thousands of dollars are being in in substantial improvements ImproTe ments calculated to greatly in crease tl e output of ore and bullion and tl ese improvements aro being pushed torn rd all energy alile many more are under coi lemi lation many of the smaller i roi erttis are showing an activity tl at will surely advance them up the ladder of fame before alie summer wanes and capital is beginning to get a faint idea of wl at 1 ark city re illy js taken alt in all the present season bids fair to one of permanent benefit to tl 0 camp and ani D i tl at its close will mark i stride forward in the mat ter of hie general erty of tl 0 camp such as it has never before wit more money will 1 ive bed spent in mino improvements and in alie improvement of business ai d residence property than ever before in one sea son 1 he future indeed looks bright and while oil er camps and new dis tracts arc enjoying booms 1 irk city is keeping even by a well founded and steady grow th in tie illinois H ast is holding forth at i I 1 in kansas city and to a for the star of that city is not re illy so well versed in 11 0 coi tents of II 11 e biblo aa la 0 M A borange it ia wl at v aganes 11 c 1 u roan mind la eai ablo of noling seems too foolish to and followers and believers follow era avlo not only avo up 11 air families aid tie bit heir goods aid chattels winch Is a a cru cicil list 1 is amassed a fortune from his dupes la lie astol fcc lears IT looks queer ta 11 0 average 1 aralle to walk up to a bucket of drinking water and bo able to see alie bottom of the pail iho now mater is a decided success as regards culinary i and it is to I 1 e ha ed that U eru is i lenty for ordinary lire i beds n e is vory agree ible and many ari tl e kind words said of 1 C is chairman of II 11 e cro ai d water corn matte tor 11 e relief brouil t to the suf fering inhabitants of 1 irk city it was a move well conceived corce ived speedily sie edily and ably carried 0 it an I 1 for the present at lc a source of gnat danger and annoyance anna yance i si ring has greatly re larded operations in this camp and its equal has not occurred in the memory of tl 0 oldest inhabitant n e w lias been stormy and cold andal 0 in the hills has desai t eared ery slowly in fact much snow yet lies where tl e ground sl be bare it las becia did cult matter to feet aai i liea aw ay from the main traveled roads ird many brosi colors 1 ive tl because aliey cannot be up ard doing with II 11 air CDS colmary energy at this season of the year |