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OUT OP ITS CLASS
Possibly Portugal will yet re
main aloof from the war
■which its government announces
the readines^ of the little republic
to enter. It may be that Great
Britain will not ask Or advise such
action by so small and weak a
state.
It is more probable, however,
that tha Portuguese republic will
make the eleventh nation to take
part In the war—the eighth ar
rayed against Germany, Austria
Hungary and Turkey. A few thou
sand Portugugese soldiers may be
Bent to France to add to the re
markable variety of troops already
engaged there. If not, they will
probably be ordered to Africa to
assist in the conquest of German
East Africa, which adjoins the
Portuguese colony of Mozambique
On the north, and German South
west Africa, which is bordered on
<he north by the Portuguese col
ony of Angola.
One sure result of the partici
pation of Portugal in the war ">vill
be tiie captur® by the allies of
many German merchant vessels,
which have been sheltered since
hostilities began In Lisbon and
other Portuguese harbors. There
are enough of them to make a
rich prize list for Portugal if they
are seized where they lie, or for
Great Britain and Prance, chiefly
if they should be allowed to go to
sea and run their chance* there.
It will all be small business for
so vast a struggle in the war now
raging In many fields and count
ing its victims by millions. Por
tugal has no natural place or part
in such a conflict. The country
is too weak. It« resources are too
small. Its debts are too heavy.
It ought not to be involved in a
war of giants which has nothing to
do with the real interests or rigtus
of the Portuguese people.
Portugal has an area of about
35,400 square miles—one-eighth
leas than that of Ohio. Its pop
ulation is 8.000.000 in round fig
ures—2o per cent more than that
of this state. The national debt
is more than $800,000,000, or at
least ten times as much as Ohio's
share of the national debt of the
Ciiited States, with the debt of the
state added. And Portugal is a
country of poor people, over-laxed
and ill-governed.
fiven if Portugal sheuid be able
to take as small a part in the war
as its rulers may think best and
keep out of all the heavier work
of the immense conflict, there will
be increased debts, worse interna!
conditions and losses which the
Portuguese people ought not to be
asked to bear. To many observers,
the probable action of Portugal
may seem a farce, but it is much
more a tragedy for a country un
fortunate in many ways.—Cleveland
Leader.
more OPPOItTl MTTES IX
MIXING THAN EVEK BEFORE
There has been altogether too
much said, and altogether too
much paper wasted of late by the
"professional"' yellow-legged, sky
scraper mining engineer on the
"Decline in Prospecting.''
There has been no decline at
all; it may be true that a few
of the states have been neglected
for ocher newer or more favored
fields; but on the whole, when they
are all added up, it will be found
'.hat there are really more men en
gaged in looking for mineral today
than there has been for years, or at
least sine© those who now berate
the honorable calling of the pros
pector have been out of short pants.
It is not that there is a short
age of prospecting or of good pros
pects, but on the other hand, if
there 5s any let-up in mining at all.
It is due to other causes.
One of the causes, if we were
called upon to express an opinion,
[ is the lack of real mining men.
Not that we are really admitting
that there la anl let-up, but there
are lesa ox the old school ol min
j ing, those who swore by and at
j the prr-oector and Tils prospect, in
| the business today . In the old day
the prospector could cash in his
prospect for enough to get auother
grub-ctake and he away on his
Journey looking lor another. Those
were the days of Teyis-O'Brien
Hearst-Haggin-Daly and dozens of
othere, the days of individual min
ing. Every one of them left mil
lions; every cent came out of the
ground. Every cent of the great
Clark fortune has been made In
miniug, and he is about the last of
the old school of gTeat pioneers
left.
The smart man of today, backed
up by Mr. Yellowlegs referred to,
wants the ore all blocked out, and
cannot be induced to put his money
into a prospect. That's one reason
why so many good looking prospects
are lying idle today.
However, the prospector con
tinues to do his annual assessment
work, and let Ug hope he will he
fortunate enough to uncover suf
ficient good quartz in this work tha
i he "osperf' will be able to discern
the ear-marks of an ore deposit so
that he will he enabled to know
'hat it is a mineral claim at least
worthy of development into a mine.
We have but little patience with
the city mining engineer who Ue
• ries the decline in prospecting or
the industry. Our advice to him
would be to get out into the field
and knock his knuckles against the
rock, and with his superior knowl
edge of formation and ore dep(%ji
tion, where mineral is and where it
is not, or where he thinks it ought
to be, it should be an easy matter
for him to uncover the hidden
wealth, as well as become independ
ent as nearly every one of the old
timers did in the early days.
Let him secure a grub stake as
do the prospectors; this ought to
be ar easy matter; certainly there
are people who have confidence in
his integrity or ability to stake him
for 6 months or a year?
With 20 to 100 of such men in
the field, Gertainly something could
be accomplished by them.
Try it, Mr. Yellowlegs.—Mining !
and Engineering World.
By reaffirming its allegiance to
Colonel Roosevelt the New Jersey
progressive party seems to have
denied the totality of Its demise.
The public is naturally anxious
to hear what kind of an act Wash
ington will call Turkey's cable
embargo. * 2\M!l
The discovery that Crocker
Land is not where Rear Admiral
Peary discovered it does not, nec
essarily, invalidate the discovery
of the pole.
"Portugal lias taken the final
plunge into the European war,"
says a dispatch. ''Pinal'" is ap
proximately correct.
Doc. Cook Is still traveling in
hard luck. He isn't here to laugh
over the discovery that the Crock
er Land which Peary found doesn't
exist.
The Portuguese are taking aw
ful chances. If the Kaiser wins,
they are likely to have King Man
uel back again.
To a man up a tree it would
3eem that the Chardon, Ohio, farm
er and his son who caught a skunk
didn't, need any other punishment,
even if the law was violated.
It is evident that the floating
mines scattered around the Brit
ish Isles are impartial, even if
they are not neutral.
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