Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-05-08

/ It looks like some of the miners and work
| men are going to locate here permanently.
as they are buying property aud building.
The Company likes steady men and plenty Of
them.
/ Our little trees that manager Simpson set
| ont some time ago are thriving beautifully.
| They are all leaved out. but l am sorry to
say that those set around the vicinity OF the
j baseball grounds are badly abused from not
| only children climbing upon the boxes that
were put around them to protect them, but
| young men as well do the same thing. Blood
| will tell every time, you know.
The furnace blowed out last Thursday
night for short time, TO enable the work.
men to put in new hearth.
The electric repair shop was completely
charged on last Saturday. You could get
right genteel shock by laying your hand ON
the roof. Ben says there was hardly any
thing in the shop but was charged chock full
OF electricity.
The shaft is getting a new coat of paint on
the frame and buildings around it.
We now have the full amount OF electric
lamps forty i'm use it kind a lumes up.
Mr.. George Simpson the Company's civil
engineer last Friday ran the line for the COM
pressed air-pipe, from the shaft to4he east
side of the Knob, where the two new tunnels
are being pushed rapidly into the hill, and set
the machinists to work laying the pipe.
The diamond drill is still going, but the
runner is like Free Mason: he will devulge
nothing.
We slipped around and took good look
OF the y,,psbor n r.. Iorrioon Ia n tssylra
enough" engine, and Mr.. Gsodenough, the
engineer, handles her with great ease. His
crew are Mr.. Bill Reed and Mr.. Tom Jones,
we'll known to everybody as good, sober, and
industrious men-which can't be said Of all
crews in railroad circles. Il
Jack Andrews has the contract Of driving
one of the tunnels on the east side Of the
Knob. He started two Rand air-drills last
Monday morning.
Last Thursday morning mine Of those ma
hogany -colored Dagos left for richer fields.
"Work too hard; bossey no good; Pilot
Knobbyw
"Hello, Jim! what makes you limp sor'
ooh, confound it, stepped through hole
in that .old foot-bridge across the creek
between Ironton and the Knob, and almost
UIOkc 1T. W utIG arc SOIlSc VI tu&k VIVA oAa
lame committee of the Miners Club! am
not able to go to work." All right, Jim; l
will show you one of them. But it Is hardly |
right to 60 on to them, for every miner and
shoveler that lives outside of the incorpora. |
ton pays three dollars q year to keep the |
county roads and bridges in repair; so per-
haps you would better report to the road
overseer."
Georgey, you must not take SO much I'M |
necessary room to turn your peripatetic SUIT |
ler-shop over in Knob town; street-making |
costs money, and q dashing team with full |
load is wearing mighty wearing.
Eddie, the road is very muddy out toward |
John Schwab's-especially on the Shepherd /
road. =
John III. Delano, Esq, took our diabolical
dimensions for q new suit Of harness, the
other day. tell you, John slings the tape
equal to a tailor. Boys, 1 carry my dinner
bucket on the hill, just fhss same a. did last
month, but tits awfuiaighs yonknok.. Well,
you buy suit of clothes and see for your.
self. =,