Re: The E-N connection

I like your last sentence Greg. I have read a bit on mining ventures both in the kootenay region of British Col. and also in N.E Ore. Probably the same is true all over the West, which is investors were sought from far away places often London and nearer at hand the Eastern financial centers of the US. It struck me along time ago that often the investors surely had no idea what they were really getting into and their ignorance was an important element to be exploited. The vastness of the continent, or in the case of London, with an Ocean apart, a good saleman could describe roses blooming in the Nev.desert and gold just falling out of every crevice in the mountains and be believed. As the 20th century progessed the awareness of the what might really exist somewhere in the world seems to have increase exponentially. I suspect that the successful sales pitches used in the later part of the 19th cent. and through to the 1920's would seem laughable today. If we want to check the accuracy of someones claim today, we just Google it.