The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-07
Utah and Nevada--.Two Miners Tell
Their Stories. "'"" '''


A few evenings since couple of,min-
ing men, both strangers to each other,
met in the reading room of the Walker
House at Salt Lake City, q. ID The
conversation turned on the mineral de-
yelopments of the West, and presently
one of the men remarked:
eff you want to see mining on big,
scale just go to Southern Utahn u
o'.How big?H said the other quietly. o
why, the Big Hole Mine, that am
connected with, has the. deepest shaft
and the biggest workings in the world"
i"'How deep?" said the little man. Il
hl''Ybu can't measure it, because if we
stopped work long enough to see how
deep the shaft was, it would materially
Interfere with the bullion product. We
dropped line once and reeled it out I'M
til it broke with its own weight. When
alloy falls down that shaft he strikes the
bottom grandfather .-apii,, ..t
"Must have big payroll "
"We used to send the money down to
the hands in cases until the workings
got so deep that we didn't get the win
ter account settled until way along in
OllC pO VIC SlJll IL UdHh d1Il
telegraphed the money orders. That
system saved us an awful wear and tear
on the cages. The miners live down
there and rear their families, They got
an underground city bigger Salt Lake,
with regular charter and municipal
elections twice a year. They publish
two daily papers down there and liter
airy magazine" iQu Nh I.4t1ii III
II never heard of the magazine, v said
the stranger.
'o"Of course not, it would be year old
when it got to you. Beside they hold a
| fair there every year and have horset
racing every Saturday. Finest four-mile
track in the world, lit with electric light.
No mud, no dust. always in the same
condition. Perfect paradise for sports.
What do you think Of that for mineP"
| IS Here the stranger, who was a Cali
fornian, threw his leg carelessly over
| the arm, of q chair, and lighting fresh
cigar, replied in deep, earnest tone:
81 don't think much of your mine.
| You work too much for small results.
When your mine plays out you have a
lot of old machinery on your hands, and
where are youp You mine after print
! tive methods, like all new countries. 1t
takes experience and head work to tackle
the industry in the proper shape. With
your mine you must be on the ground
in person, and have any amount of men
to look, after this, department, or that.
Now have a bigger mine than yours.
Tits located in Story County, somewhere
in the northern part, believe, and Irun
/ - = H.
assistants.
=" How deep might the shaft be?''
asked the other "' .'"'''
% 1t might be pretty deep if 1 allowed
the n>lsi to rush forward and overdo the
thing, but at present there is no shaft at
aHnf7 l4'lH!i'"o az ''' '+a
-" Hosting works up" ID. '' "'
mo, no hosting works-not if l
know it. You can fool away a great
deal of good hard coin on hosting
works. - ...' ''' -.i.'' '''+ '.'.0
How in thunder do you run, your
minep, %" .-'.. .'' i'i''f'
% On the assessment plan, sir. That's
the latest and most improved method.
We have big map of the mine hung mp
in the company's office, made by one of
the most competent artists on the coast.
Now when we have a good map of the
lower workings we don't need any
works to speak of. We photograph the
Savage hosting works from the top of
the Hale & Norcross trestlework-an en-
tirely new viewIand call it by our name,
the Bullion Brick l keepa man in Vir-
ginia' at 800 month to superintend the
location and write weekly letters, and [
stay in San Francisco in my office on
Pine Street and levy the assessments ev-
cry sixty days; that's often as the law
allows. I'm the President, Board of
Trustees, Secretary, Treasurer and iev-
erything more especially the Treasurer.
OF course, | draw salary for all the Off
ces, and when I get through drawing
salaries turn the rest over to the agent
in Virginia to pay offthe hands. By not
employing any hands he saves enough
to pay himself. My regular income from
that mine, is 100000 a year and never a.
pick struck in the ground. This is what
I consider scientific mining, sir. You
get the Silver out Of the pockets of the
stockholders andileave the vast argen-
tiferous and auriferous deposits in your
claim for your children, who can 90 right
ahead and develop the mine just as soon
dis the public quit putting up, which isn't
at all likely to happen. As soon as a
man drops on the game he dies, and the
newcomers all haYe to learn for them
selves. AS long as people are, being born
in Nevada and California my mine will
run on like a chronometer clock." w. RsI
% $ But, said the Utah man, "my style
r = ;
Gate eS E9p 1 Thousda aSd Of 5fs heH aro
working day and night to pay the assess
ments. ItIkeeps the country az busy as
a beehive. and the speaker sauntered
into the telegraph Office to order assess
ment No. 36.-,SaH Lake Tribune. y
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