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with capital and business judgment to 
No in- 
good mine. t ere are thousands 
ef allege ines or p pects 
many fortunes have spe 
thl laims, while valuable prop- 
erties are often ignored for years, until 
erty -e or education reveals their val- 
ge saa are few mines for ee poor 
man. It takes money 
volved. Itisa 
that ea are made, not fo 
nd insufficient means, are the 
sacks upon which many mining 
d 
, Sufficient to demonstrate the val- 
ndoned when fa- 
for transportation, or for the 
treatment of certain classes of ore, did 
nol exist. 
The ass wou is formed to 
pect ee prospects’’—to secure 
haustive investi exits and conserva- 
ts upon mines and mineral 
locate, sist aay or ot 
c s prove of value, 
ate and sell; : 
“pros- 
n e@x- 
ae be te 
engage in ones business that 
Senate oe se 
of he enterprise de- 
ben sreatly won the ability, judg- 
ow nd honesty of the managers— 
roints Se vital ‘fate rest to the intending 
irtvest2 Economical, sid bg 
honest effort will win success No o 
fars of “a re thing’, no big promises 
- hod accomplish- 
mple statement 
of ‘faith in legitimate Swetha a bus- 
jiness. Hundreds of claims may be ex- 
gmined before one of true worth be 
f und, but a single success will abu 
ézntly reimburse thé association ri 
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many failures. By keeping in touch 
with abet mineral industr es ia werhes 
and Am nd employing the ser- 
vices ee epee batiate of known reputa- 
tion, the expensive experiences and 
failures due to ignorance should be 
avoided. 
A capital stock of 
shares, 
half a milion 
place the association on a firm finan- 
cial is 
Subsertotions from ne to one 
hundred dollars ae month are invited, 
t 
all “equ 
shares to be then 
All stock will thus be caly 
d nonassessa able : 
of the association to 
keep in clo as with prospectors 
and discoverers of val mineral 
deposits It is not the intention to 
emp! r “grub stake’ prospectors, 
r to purchase with stock properties of 
value fic prices. 
qui 
prop- 
OE. a. 
=i purchase mo ate cost, 
from a la “as mea 
limited a temeteaie might otherwise re- 
mein untosuched. he essoici: tion wil 
also act as brokers for t ners 6 
eveloped mines. n this w the in- 
terests of th prospector, ive mine 
owner, and the investor, may e best : 
efficiently served. 
Subse ae will be received by the 
following agenci 
Wm. H. Holcomb, ‘Coeaee Clerk. 
Blochman Banking Company. 
First National Bank of San Die 
ee utt, editor West Am. Stim 
Patan’ Shaffer, County Auditor, 
Ira J. Gray, Book Exchange, 1641 F st 
Ernest Schernikow, 18 Broadway, N. ¥ 
METALS AND ORES. 
TIMONY—An ore carrying about _ 
38 a 40 per cent of this metal, and from 
