Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-02-18
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1882.

Bait Lake Tribune.

Getting Suver.
~ i salt Lake Tribune.
A few evenings since . compile OF min
ing men, both strangers to each otper,
met in the reading-room Of the Walker
house. The conversation turned on the
mineral developments of the west, and
presently n of the men remarked:
IF you want TO see mining on a big
scale, just go to southern Utah"
slow big?" said the other quietly.
why, the Big Hole mine, that l am
connected with, has the deepest shaft
and the biggest workings in the world"
"Hog deep" said the little man.
"You can't measure it, because il we
stopped work long enough to see how
deep the shaft was, it would materially
interfere with the bullion product. We
dropped a line down once and reeled it
out until it broke with its own weight.
When . boy falls down that shaft he
strikes the bottom q grandfather"
Must have a big pay roll"
ave used to send the money down to
the hands in cases until the workings
got so deep that We didn't get the winter
account settled until way along in the
spring. SO we started a bank and tele-
graphed the money orders. That system
saved US an awful wear and tear of the
cages. The miners live down there and
rear their families. They've got an un'
derground city bigger'n Salt Lake, with
a regular charter and municipal cleo
tons twice a year. They publish two
daily papers down there and a literary
magazine"
ri never heard Of the magazine" said
the stranger.
"Of course not it would be a year old
when il got to you. Besides, they hold
a fair there every year and have horse
racing every Saturday. Finest four
mile track in the worli, lit with electric
light. No mud, no dust, always in the
same condition. Perfect paradise for
sports. What do you thinl. of hat for
q miner" 5a r9
Here the stranger, who was a Califor-
MAN, threw his leg carelessly over the
arm Of a chair, lighting a fresh cigar, re-
piled in a deep earnest tone:
II 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 you, hands, and
where are you? You mine after print
tive methods, like ali new countries. 1t
takes experience 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 l have a bigger mine than yours.
f, 1t is located in Storey county, some
where in the northern part, l believe,
and I run it quite up to the handle with
one or two assistants"
SLOW deep might the shaft be-" ask
ed the other.
at might be pretty deep if / allowed
the men 10 rush forward and overdo the
thing, but at present there is no shaft at
ALL"
"Hoisting works up?"
mo; no hosting works-not i'll know
it. You can fool away q great deal of
good hard coin on hosting works"
How ia thunder do you run your
mine? ?"
, ION the assortment plan, sir. That's
the latest and most improved method.
We have a big map Of the mine hung
up 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 work from the top
Of the Hale & Norcross trestle work
an entirely new view-and call it by
our name, the Bullion brick. l keep a
man in Virginia at $50 a month to
superintend the location and write
weekly letters, and ] stay in San Fran
cisco in my Office on Pine street, and
levy the assessments every sixty days
that's often as the law allows. I'm the
4 president, board of trustees, secretary,
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