The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-17

Senator Fairs Kind Ways.

Arthur McEwen writes quite an
article in the Sacramento Bee of how
smooth and kind Senator Fair is. We
copy one instance: Senator Fair was
never known to discharge man. He
spared their feelings always. The delv-
ers in the deep knew this, and loved him
accordingly. Smoking was forbidden
in the mines. Uncle Jimmy-as he was
affectionally styled by his employees
was in the habit of dropping down the
mine at odd hours in an unexpected
way. Entering drift one day he smelt
tobacco smoke. Did he demand that the
offender be instantly brought forth and
discharged? Not at all. Uncle Jimmy
sat down on chunk of ore and smiled
and chatted with the miners in way
that warmed their hearts toward him.
He told them that he knew how hard
their work was, and that for his part he
thought 81 day much too small a re-
ward for their toll, and that if it lay
with him-but he had partners. he said
with sigh. Then he cried out cheer
lily:
Dear me, this is real comfortable
down herel 1t is great relief to get
away from all the dashed business that
worries me night and day above. j feel
just like having a smoke. Have any of
you boys got pipe about your"
Miner Smith FASTENED eagerly to pro-
duce his hidden Guilty from a hole in
the rock, and his millionaire friend and
employer sat and pulled away, and
presently departed from the drift, leav-
ing his blessing behind him, as it WERE
Half an hour later Mr.. Fair was on
the surface and in his Office. To him,
in response to a summons, entered the
foreman. Brown" said the Senator,
discharge that blank of blank Smith,
who's working in the north drift of the
100. He's been smoking"
A cross-cut, once on time, was being
run into ore in a new part of the Con-
Virginia. 1t was desirable for specula-
tive reasons that the public should be
kept as long as possible In ignorance of
its richness. Uncle Jimmy, in his fan
mel shirt and brogans, seated himself
among the resting miners at the mouth
of the cross-cut, and picked piece of
ore from the first car that was pushed
out.
That's pretty good looking rock,
don't you think so, boys?"
There was murmur of respectful as
sent.
What do you think of 1t, John
son ?''
Miner johnson handled the rock, and
gazed at it, and shook his head He
never was much on guessing rock. He
didn't know. Neither did four or five
others who stared at the ore as they
fingered it. But Miner Trevillian saw
his chance to distinguish himself. and
to recommend himself perhaps for pro-
motion to the position Of shift boss, not
TO say foreman.
why, that rock, sir" said Miner
Trevillian, cycling it and weighing it
critically, will go all the way from $3.50
to $500 ton."
"Ah, (" observed Uncle Jimmy, regard
ing him admiringly, you're a good
miner, Trevillian. You understand
your business"
On the surface to the foreman, within
the hour: Discharge Trevillian from
that cross-cut and the mine. He knows
too much.
After taking such reasonable precau-
tons as these to protect his interests,
the Senator if met on the street by
miners Smith and Trevillian and in
formed complainingly of their discharge
would throw up his hands in amaze |
ment, and protest that it was an outrage !
to let such excellent miners go, and if
the foreman didn't stop discharging his
best men, the foreman himself would be
made to walk. Get them back their |
Jobs? Assuredly he would if that con-
founded foreman would let him have |
any thing to say. about his own Mines
Err.