The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-07-07
TAYLOR CORRESPONDENCE.
A CaustIc ARA ngment OF the News
especial Correspondent"
TAYLOR, NV, June %. 1888.

AAfLohf HAsf u IN ~ 1000.
EDITOR WHITE PINE News From some
cause or other, the last issue of your valuable
paper has not reached me, but in the Senti-
mel of the 10th instant l find a number of
items AIKEN from your paper and credited
to your especial correspondent from Taylor.
Among the items referred to l note the fol-
lowing
"This is a 81 a day camp. and woe to the
man who would offer to work for less. His
fate would probably be as mysterious as of
Morgan of anti Masonic fame"
Now. | do not know your Especial CORES
pondent" at Taylor. nor do | care to know
him. but this much | do know. that such
items as l nave quoted above are liable to do
the mine owners and mine sperintendents of
Taylor a great injustice. They imply that
Taylor is only a 81 n day camp through
fear or intimidation or mensce from just
such scribblers as your Especial correspond
ent.n
In so far as the Monitor Mill and Mining
Company is concerned (which up to the pres
ent time has done the principal work Of the
district. no man has ever been asked to
work for it either underground or on top of
ground, and use powder for less than four
dollars per day, and when the mines under
control of the Monitor co. will not yield suf-
fcient to justify that price for an honest days
labor, il will close down. and your Especial
correspondent will have to seek pastures
new. No mining company in tho State treats
its employees more literally than does the
Monitor Mill and Mining Company Of Tay-
lor. Four dollars per day is paid at tho mine
for all grades Of mining labor, and S. per day
for blacksmiths and tool sharpeners. and all
employees of the company are furnished with
good board at s. per week, and good lodging
houses and wood and water free. and at tho
mill battery men and A~mnlgamators are paid
s. per day, and skilled blacksmiths and car
penters 81 per day, furnished with board and
lodging at S. per weak.
/ would ask your Especial correspondent"
who has made Taylor a 81 n day camp? Was
il the former owners Of tho mines. who al
lowed them to emain dormant for a number
Of years. until they became forfeited? Was
it the croakers who. when the present COM
pany and owners started in to develop the
mines and to build a mill, pronounced and
proclaimed throughout the whole country
that there was nothing in it, and that the
whole thing would BIO a failure3 Was it the
"Johnny-eome-latelys.' such rs your CORES
pondent. who waited until tho mines were
developed and placed upon a paying basis,
and then came in and asked for a job ? Or
was 1t the men who by their personal energy
and individual labor first developed the i'm
mense mineral resources OF the district, and
under the nost diseouraging circumstance
erected a mill. and BY close attention 70 busi-
ness md strict economy, have succeeded in
making il pay. thereby enabling them to give
employment to such men as your correspond
ent at the rate of 81 per day?
am foreibly reminded, Mr.. Editor. of n
story told mo some years ago by Judge ".
W. Bishop, the great American stump
speaker Of Nevada. The story may be old.
and the Judge may have repeated it IN hum
dred times. still | cannot resist the tsmpta-
ton to repeat 1t here As the story goes,
carly one Summer morn. two old buns were
seated on the steps of the sidewalk in the
neighboring town of Eureka, waiting for the
first saloon to open that they might get their
morning drink, or perchance strike the bar
keeper for a a four-tit piece with which to
buy hash for breakfast. when one of them
unto tuo olncI tuus dtllNSitu uihlSoil g.
There is Jackson; be has a fine brick hotel;
he has made money. but be is not the kind of
a man that makes the country. There is
Sadler: he has lots Of big coal teams and a
big store; no has made lots Of meney. but no
is not the kind of a man that makes the coun-
try. There is Tom Wren; he has made him
self boss lawyer, has a fine Office and lots of
money. but he is not the kind of IA man that
makes the country. There is Tom Read, a
boss surveyor; knows tho lines of all the
mines ia the country, and has made big
money. but he is not the kind of a man that
makes the country. There is Old Zeile Of the
Eureka Consolidated; he knows all about the
mines; has put his money in and made a big
fortune, but he is not the kind of n man that
makes a country. 1t is such men as you and
/, old pard. that make the country, and then
lie down and die"
Your correspondent having made Taylor a
"si a day camp should initiate the Eureka
gentlemen and lilo down and die. No one
would miss him. Tours, VERIrAs.
t"veritas" is altogether too severe on our
special correspondent" lie is far from be-
ing the type Of humanity illustrated in Judgo
Bishops stump yarn. He Is an honest, hard
working man, who. were the chances equal,
would, and may some day. be rs good n man
to 'make the country as "Veritas' Jack
son" 'Sadler," or 'old Zeile." The strained
construction put upon our correspondents