One of the most common cause of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
This is a story of a uncle, who was caught by the 'gold fever' in the gold-rush days, and went to dig and grow rich. He had never heard the saying that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has aver been taken from the earth. He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel.The going was hard, but his lust for gold was definite.
After weeks of labour, he was rewarded by the discovery of the shining ore. He needed machinery to bring the ore to the surface.Quietly, he covered up the mine,retraced his footsteps to his home in Williamsburg,Maryland, and told his relatives and a few neighbours of the 'strike'.They got together money for the needed machinery and had it shipped. The uncle and others went back to work the mine.
The first car of ore was mined and shipped to a smelter. The returns proved they had one of the richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the dedts. Then would come the big killing in profits.
Down went the drills!! Up went the hopes of the Uncle!! Then something happend---the vein of gold ore disappeared. They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot of gold was no longer there. They drilled on, desperstely trying to pick up the vein again, all to no vail
Finally, they decided to quit. They sold the machinery to a junk man for afew hundred dollars, and took the train back home.Some 'junck' men are dumb, but not this one!! He called in a minning engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineer advised that the project had failed because the owners were not familiar with 'fault lines'.His calculation showed that the vein would be found just THREE FEET FROM WHERE THE UNCLE HAD STOPPED DRILLING!! That is axactly where it was found.
The junck man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine because he knew enough to seek counsel before giving up.Remeber that he lost a huge fortune because he stopped THREE FEET FROM GOLD. @ WWW.ICI.CO.ZA
