Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-11-29
DUTIES OF MINING SUPERINTEND-
ENTS.

The Virginia Chronicle has begun to agitate
the idea of requiring the Superintendent of
some of the leading mines to attend to bust
ness and earn their salary like the rest of peo-
pie. The Mammoth City Times steps to tn e
front with the following sensible remarks;
ave observe that the course of the Virginia
Chronicle in denouncing Redus, Superintend-
ent of the Combination shaft, for his gross
neglect of du y, is universally approved, and
the consequence is, Requa will probably have
to resign. There are other Superintendent
on the Comstock that the Chronicle might show
up with equal propriety, now that it has en-
tered upon the good work. What, forinstance,
is old Sam Curtis doing at the Justicel or
"Colonel Curtis, as the ComstOck papers
delight to call him. Curtis is at San Fran
cisco, or at Lucky Badwin's ranch, fully one
half of his time What aye Sam Jones and
Hank Smith doing3 1t seems to US that there
10 o strange similarity between their official
weekly reports and those which called down
the wrath of the Chronicle on Requa's head.
There are Boyle of the Alta and Benton,
Hamilton of the Imperial, and Foreman of
the Overnan. A little shaking up would do
them all good, and might lead to an explana-
ton of what becomes of the hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars yearly collected by assess
ment" Some of the above named Superin-
tendents attend to their duties pretty regu-
larly,-that is, for mining Superintendents;
bot their duties don't am cunt to much even
when fully attended to.
The Enterprise announced that ore had been
struck on the 400 level of North BONANZA. The
stockholders OF this mine have been expecting
development for nearly year past, nd now
they learn from the Enterprise why the ore
was not struck before.
1t appears that during the absence of Su
perintendent Jackson IN the East most of the
work done was in the wrong direction-west
where it should have been toward the east,
and east where it should have been to the
west.
The question naturally arises, what WAS Su-
perintendent Jackson doing in the East all
this while, and who was the blunderer to
whom he delegated the important trust of de
VelOplnX q mine. w no Is gong 10 square ac-
counts with the stockholders who purchased
the stock at s. a share, and now hold it at
six bitsl Some months ago the Trustees of
one of the leading mines on the Comstock, en-
dsavored to learn something of the mine from
the Superintendent, who was unable to tell
them anything about it, and the Foreman was
accordingly compelled to take trip to San
Francisco to throw light on the subject. The
6uperintendents, Secretaries, Presidents and
Trustees of mining companies cost the stock
holders immense sums yearly which might be
expended in legitimate Development 1t has
been grand riot of extravaganza and waste,
and in many instances actual thievery, and
the time will never arrive when there will be
anything else. Stockholders will growl, Leg
slatures will pass bad laws, ostensibly to reg
ulate matters, and outraged parties will seek
justice in the courts, but the system of ex-
travsgance and fraud in mining development,
will flourish ten years from now it does to-
day.