The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-26
Utah and Neyada-..Two Miners Tell
Their. Stories. -

met in the reading room of the Walker
House at Salt Lake City, u. I. The
| conversation turned on the mineral de-
velopments of the West, and presently
one of the men remarked:
eff you want to see mining on q big
Scale just go to Southern Utah's vAt
ssl"How big?" said the other quietly..a /
fssi"Why, the. Big Hole Mine, that Lam
connected with, has the deepest shaft
and the biggest workings in the world. I
syr...HoW deep?" said the little man.
ttYou can't measure it, because if we
stopped work long enough to see how
deep the shaft was, it would material u
interfere with the bullion product. We
droppedIa line once and reeled it ont un-
til litrbroke with its own weight. When
boy falls down that shaft he strikes the
bottom a grandfather. -''''e '.'
'.ssMust have big payroll ,w
s. ave used to send the money down to
| the hands in cases until the workings
got so deep that we didn' t get, the vim
ter account settled until way along in.
the spring. So We started a. bank and
btelegrapheda the money orders.e That
system saved us an awful wear and tear
on the -eages.-aThe miners live down
there,a and rear their families, They got
! an underground city bigger n Salt Lake,
with a regular charter and municipal
elections twice a year. They publish
two daily papers down there and liter
ary fnagazine..n - aslF etIoG 32G5lf9ea9
Il never heardef the magazine" !" said
the stranger5 o. 4a7s eeH ngap oE
"Of course notsit would be aeyear old
when it got to you. Beside they hold a
fair there every year and have horse
racing every Saturday. Finest four-mileI
track in thewerld, lit with electric light. |
No mud, no dust, always in the same
condition: Perfect paradise for sports.
What do you think Of that, for miner !
g Here the stranger, who was CALI
fornian threw his leg 'carelessly over
the arm of a chair, and lighting fresh
cigar, replied in a deep. earnest tone: : /
81 don't think much of your mine {
You. work too much for small results.
When your mine plays sout, you have al
lot Of old machinery on your hands, and
where are your You mine after prirlli-
tive methods. like all new countries. 1T
takes experience and head work to tackle
dheindustry 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 IihaFe a, bigger mine than yours
1t is located in Story County, somewhere
in the northern part, believe, and / run
it quite upto the handle with one on two
asslstants.ft &aH fsg.sa5 s7.rs5ssg.l x, ! M
g How deep might the shaft beif
asked the other. ~ gssE'lss -gssssssI : )
~ =. : 1t might be. pretty deep if + allowed
the men to rush forward and overdo the
thing, but at present there is no shaftat
aH.,f % gss1asIetssse "a Ia STls e. bas3 +
sa' Hosting works up p, yssasgesg 9ie.is
tho, no hoisting works not if I
know itf You can fool. away great
deal good hard -eoin-on- hoisting.
sMeEks. ssx Sss.ssasSa@. a&g
!" How in thunder do YOU run YOUR
m;nep, t784E9aFgsE s9Ssss3l
- ss.;ss On the assessment plan, sir. That ]
the latest and most improved method,
We have big map Of the mine hung mp
in the company's office, made by one sof
the most competent artists on the COAST
Now when we have d good map Of the
lower workings we don't need any
works to,speak Of We photograph the
Savage shoisting works from the top OF
the Hale & Norcross trestlework 4an en-.
tirely new view and can 1t BY our name,
the BuHien Brick. i keep man in Vir4
ginia at 800 a month to superintend the |
location and write weekly letters; and | |
stay in San. Francisco in my office eor, |
PinesStreet. and levy the assessments ey-
days; that's often as the law |
allows. 2 I'm the President, Board of /
Trustees, Secretary, Treasurer and ey- |
erything- more especially the Treasurerl
Of course, I draw salary for all the off, I
ces, and when | get. through drawing !
salaries / turn the rest over to the agent I
IN Virginia to pay off the hands. BY, not |
any hands he saves, enough |,
to- pay himself My regular income from |
hat mine is 5000. 900 a year and never 4 !
pick struck in the ground. This is what |
consider scientific mining, sir.4 You /
get the silver out of the pockets Of the /
and leave thevast argen. /
ferrous and auriferous deposits il, your !
claim for your children, who can go right |.
ahead and develop the mine just as soon |,
ssthe public quitputting up, which isn't 7
1t alb likely to happen.H As soon as
nan drops on the game he dies, and the
1eweomers all have to learn for them Ii
selves. As long as people are being born
q Neyada and California my mine will I
'un on like a chronometer clock. fr s.,s
z.sBut, said the Utah man, (. my stvle /
# mining keeps d lot of men at works.
|. - :. So does Mines, quoth the Golden 1
late chap. g Thousands of men are
Working day and night topay the assess
nents. Itkeeps the country as busy as Il
beehive, and the speaker sauntered
nto the telegraph Office to order assess 7
aentsNO. 36.-SaH Lake Tribune. l,r.sj {
The ten plaques Of newspaper |
ffice are bores, poets, cranks, rats, cock
caches, typographical errors, exchange
ends, book canyassers, delinquent sub
cribers, and the man who always knows
ow to run the paper better than the
ditor does himself .--Nesoo York Com
eefefaJ Adl;ertiser. hsia s@sfA ef
Prof. Huxley wants his boy to have
broad shoulders, deep chest and q
tomach SO good he will never know he
as one.n That kind of a stomach