Quotes
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold. ― Turkish Proverb
Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith... ― Rafael Sabatini
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
— Leo Tolstoy
Real gold is not afraid of the melting pot. — Chinese Proverb
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold. ― Turkish Proverb
Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith... ― Rafael Sabatini
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
— Leo Tolstoy
Real gold is not afraid of the melting pot. — Chinese Proverb
Independence Gold Mine
Winfield Scott Stratton had spent years prospecting for gold in Colorado and Utah during the summer and then returning to his carpentry occupation in the winter in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1893 he had two claims, the Washington and the Independence, in the Cripple Creek mining district. He had given up hopes of finding pay dirt in the Washington. He laid off the couple off miners he had hired and went back to carpentry, but in the 1893 depression nobody was building.
Stratton was urged to go back to Cripple Creek to try one more time to find gold, which he did. In Cripple Creek he met a man named Pearlman who represented a mining syndicate in San Francisco who wanted to buy Stratton's Washington mine. Stratton did not like Pearlman so he offered to sell him the other mine, the Independence, on a 30 day option. An unheard of $5,000 for a 30 day option and $150,000 if Pearlman wanted to buy the mine at the end of the option period. That deal for an untried mine was so preposterous Stratton thought it would chase away Pearlman, whom Stratton disliked from the beginning..
Pearlman didn't blink. He wrote the $5,000 check. Startton said he would clean out his belongings and turn over the Independence for 30 days. While cleaning out the debris in the mine, he discovered signs of a good vein of gold. He put all the debris back in place and sat on pins and needles for 30 days hoping Pearlman's crew would not discover the vein.
On the evening of the 29th day Pearlman said he was in a hurry to go back to San Francisco and offered to give Stratton back the paper the Option Deal was written on. Stratton pointed at the fire in the fireplace. Pearlman threw the option into the fire and a month later Stratton was mining $2,000 worth of ore a day from his Independence mine. The Independence was the biggest gold strike ever in the United States.
Taken in part from Money Mountain
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Why was the underground miner depressed? He couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel
Why did the miner quit his job? Because every time he put his helmet on he felt light headed
What kind of dogs to gold panners like most? Golden retrievers
Why was the dwarf's mining company so successful? Because he had such low overheads
What's another name for fake gold? Shamrock
HAPPY FATHERS' DAY to all you fathers out there
Why did the miner quit his job? Because every time he put his helmet on he felt light headed
What kind of dogs to gold panners like most? Golden retrievers
Why was the dwarf's mining company so successful? Because he had such low overheads
What's another name for fake gold? Shamrock
HAPPY FATHERS' DAY to all you fathers out there