Mining Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-02
issued: 1899-09-23
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note: %^# VOL 3. NO. 16. SANDON, B. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1899. FIVE CENTS. I I: [v ;. I Are Detrimental to Aay Camp Should Be Discouraged. E*-- There are mining men and mining mon. There are mines and mines. There are prospects which do not deceive, and there are wildcats that dis- gust men with mines an si mining. A mining camp with but a single paying lode running through it oilers a good field for the wildcat mining broker or speculator. Virginia City, Nevada, is a place in point. The Comatock was a paying proposition wherever it was struck. It made'Virginin. City famous. Men made fortunes in mining upon the Gomstock and in dealing in its " shares. But the Comstock didn't make wildcats pay, but it made them sell, and many men lost their all in trying to make something out of them. Esmeralda, Austin, Pioche and'.other *" points in Nevada had their rich mines; they also had their wildcats. The latter "queered" the former. Wildcat propositions are a curse to any mining centre. They breed doubt and distrust of really good lodes,- for "the same confident, apparently honest, busiinsshke representations arc employed to dispose of a wildcat that are used to sell the former. But, happily, the clay of the wildcat has long since passed away in old mining centres. Every tub must stand upon its own bottom, and about every mining man in established camps knows the bottom of every prospect hole and mining shaft in the district. The mining fakir has long ago lost his appetite for them, and gives them a wide berth. He has been, and is still, hunting for newer and greener pastures. Butte has been singularly free from mining fakirs, not, perhaps, because all mining brokers and dealers"in'mia- . ing stocks are sprouting angelic wings, but because the Butte mining field is comparatively barren of wildcats. The man who strikes favorable looking rock will stay by it, fearing he may lose a bonanza in its sale. He, will take the chances and revel in anticipations of wealth as long as the…
note: Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sandon (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0183601
language: English
lat: 49.975556
long: -117.227222
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sandon B.C. : Cliffe and Son
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