The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-08-26
FROM KANSAS.
To the Editor Of the WoRKISONAHs ADVOCATE
LEAvENwoRTH, Aug. Is, 1871.

To the Editor Of the WoRKIEGMAH's ADVOCATE
LEAvENwoRTH, Aug. Is, 1871.
A copy of your issue of Aug. 9th, con-
tanning paragraph headed, SINNERS wanted
at Leavenworth City," has been handed to
me BY one Of our employees. | have never
had the pleasure Of seeing your paper DC"
fore, and / am at loss to conceive bow
paper which bears such unquestionabie abll-
ity upon its face, should suffer party to
avail himself of its columns for the purpose
of perpetrating calumny upon business
rival
The paragraph referred to consists Of
about fifteen lines, and | will undertake to
prove, that it contains one or more false
hoods in every line. No agent Of the mine
has been securing st. Clair or any other
county for men the shaft instead Of being
sunk six years, has only been in operation
one year this month; instead of being Gin
differently timbered" it is timbered from
top to bottom, and the work was done by
Mr.. Harris Daddow, Of Penn, author Of
the best book on mining yet published,
Coal, Iron and OIL" The pit has but
one opening, but there is an escape ladder
in the air-shaf, apart from the hoisng ways;
and the company have determined to sink
another shaft, the work to begin about the
new year. No accident has yet happened
since the opening of the mine and as there
is no evidence of giving way, or weakness
in any part of the work, it is hoped under
the careful management and frequent
inspection of the officers, none will happen.
The mime is singularly free from gas of all
kinds; and the only alarm felt, has been
by those men, who have been unused to
deep mining,and have only been accustomed
to the "rabbit holes" of some western
works. Other reports detrimental to the
work have been spread either by men dis
charged for some misconduct, or by those
having direct interest in injuring it, as the
author Of the article referred to, plainly is
Are there no other mines in the country
having but one outlet, and do new cUmpa-
MES in unexplored regions usually sink
taCO shafts at once? The simple foot is,
MIR. Editor, that the Leavenworth mine is
the most remunerative work to the miner in
the West. Its business is large and con
stantly increasing, and the men work every
day in the week; during the whole summer
they have made from 81 30 to "a so per
day at six cents per bushel, which on Sept.
l will be raised to seven cents | believe
we never had a man leave the works who,
afterwcrd did not wish to come back again.
The mines about US fear our influence
because we pay good prices pay promptly
in cash, and do not extort two-tbirds of ouI
mems earnings through company store. y
Men with families like to come, because the
city abounds with churches, and possesses
as fine system Of free schools as any in
the West.
This communication is longer than | ex
peeted to make it, but as YOU have done q
great injustice to fine enterprise, uninten.
tionally though it may have been upon your
part, | trust you will repair it as nearly as
may be, by giving as prominent place to
this as to the article referred to and also
Obligs your mining readers by letting them
know where they can get fair pay for their
labor. Respectfully yours,
G. A. LOGAN, Prest. Leav. Coal Go.