Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-12-04
Mining Boardine House..
From the sal Lake Tribune.


 Complaints begin 10 come iu from
 every mining camp around Salt Lake,
 of a custom that has lately grown
 up among mining Superintendents of
 compelling married men 10 board, and
 in several instances, sleep at tbc com | panies boarding houses. \ mining | Superintendent who discharges a | miner for living with his wife and
 children is very foolish. Because, if not a fool, he should know that a
 miner who would willingly board away from his home and little ones and partake of the Chinese-coOked slOps of the average company board ing house, is not worth the powder re- quired to blow him into eternity. Knowing this, and still insisting on drumming up trade for the companies
 boarding house, he must have a pecu. niary interest in the proceeds There Is no other way 10 look at this thing. There are times when mining com panIes find it necessary to build board ing and sleeping houses for their men But i'll all such cases there is no other accommodation Co be had and the mine owners supply the men with food and lodging close Co theIr work. The miners pay well for their accom- modatiOn. and are therefore under no obligations whatsoever. But miner saves a few dollars and brings his family from the East or from across the ocean; he builds himself a little house close tO the mine and is happy in the thought that when his days work Is over he can sit at his own tireside, surrounded by the little ones. rom whom he has been so long Separ- ated. His wife prepares the supper. cooking only the dishes he likes best ! After supper, his pipe is lighted and 1 hls children at his knee, he fOrgcts 1 how hard and steadily be had to swing | the hammer or the pick, the whole ] day long, in the happiness hls we'll 1 earned money has brought to those | loved ones around him.
 Hard, indeed, must be his heart who | would break up that happy circle. | But the mining foreman is the god ! with a small, a very small 2, who steps | Tn and says: Here, the company has a boarding house and you must board there or quit the job. We can get men any day, and if you don't like our style of doing business you may hunt elsewhere for work"
 The poor miner looks about him and sees his family happy around the glowing hearth and then thinks of the Chinese cook and the hurriedly-pre- pared hash on fly-specked plates. and he asks: Have I not given satisfac- ion by my work? Have I not worked ten hours a day and per Ormed my task to your satisfaction
 Yes, that's all right. I don't find ault with your work, but you must board at the company's boarding house 'r quit; that's all"
 Yes, that's all. And the miner is compelled 10 pay out of his scantv Sl per day for his own board besides buying provisions and fuel for lis family.
 If miners will forward the names of 'uperintendents or toremen who run mines and boarding houses on the .OoYe plan, we will publish their .''iASo NAth plCdSuIC.
 Worked Himself Out Of Job.
 The outbreak of a smallpox cpl .emic and the possibility of an old. me smallpox scare reminds the 'tock Report of an incident in news. ,aper office some time ago when q I lmilar scare was in progress. One , lternoon a reporter entered the rowded local room with counte- ance upon winch satisfaction and l eli-complacency were very conspic- a ously stamped. As the new arrival f Waggered up to his desk, the city oserved him and asked, Well, what itg What have you gotg' ." A ood item. Exclusive too. tbinl ] teen up to the Pest House. and all q trough 1t. 1 tell you, I'll write IL mn n ully" The enterprising reporter !; as crushed by bein, given a vooo u