The bee., 1901-06-13
DOWN IN THE MINES.

AS q matter of fact, the latest oil
discoveries in Texas have not only
induced greater activity in the Ken
tucky-Tennessee and the West Vir-
ginia fields, and have spurred to the
search for oil in Louisiana, Arkan-
sas, Missouri, Alabama and Virginia
where, in some instances, manifes-
tations of years ago are the encour-
agement, but have also turned the
minds of energetic and progressive
men in all parts of the South to the
study of its underground wealth.
This is an age of saving. AS much
is now made from what were once
the wastes of more than one indus
try as was formerly derived from
the main product. This is a result
of science and invention, the creation
of new markets and the realization
of the value of little things. Side
by side with this economy in hand
ling products is the steady develop
ment of new fields. Under the ad-
vantageous conditions of the latest
and most improved machinery and
the accumulation of many years of
experience in the older ones the
South has already felt to it's better
ment the effects of this evolution in
its coal fields and it's iron mines, so
long in practical idleness; it's timber
regions, toward which the workers
in depleted forests of the North and
West have turned, and now in its
oil fields, with their potentialities
still to be determined. Wonders al
ready accomplished have attracted
to the South the attention of men in
other parts of the country and abroad
who have learned to recognize a
good thing and to turn It to the best
ends. There have been. so many
surprises that hardly anyone will
now be surprised by subsequent dis
coveries. These ought to be has
tened by the agitation for thorough
survey of the South's mineral re-
Sources s.-Manufacturer' Record.
Secretary Atkinson accompanied
his wife and family portion of the
way while on their route east last
week.
The Barnsley miners now have the
capacity of producing twenty cars of
coal daily If track room was ade-
quate.
We notice the L. NJ. WIS are very |
willing to burn "scab" coal when
it costs them nothing.
Scarcely week passes that some
member of the U. NJ. w. is not sum-
moned to court to answer for their
wrong doing. Evil companions have
led men once peaceable and quiet
into evil wavs.
The U. NJ. WIS were much dis
turbed last Saturday upon the re-
ceipt in Madisonville of little cir
cular announcing the fact that farm
hands in Illinois who had Joined
the union were on strike. They
have been trying to deceive the
farmers of this county by statements
that their order would in no way in
terfere with the farmers business,
hence the disturbed condition of
mind over the appearance of this
harmless circular.
There is no class of men who give
questions of interest to the public in
general a closer study than do busi-
ness men. They carefully weigh all
the facts and when they arrive at a
conclusion they are generally right.
While talking with one last week at
Henderson we were somewhat sur
priced to find him so well posted on
the general makeup of the U. NJ. w.
and their acts and
aims. He had apparently given the
matter close attention for he said,
that considering the fact that this
class of labor simply takes charge of
the coal operators business and runs
it to suit himself; that he would
rather belong to the U. M. WIS than
be the owner of mine, for as a
miner he would have voice in the
operation of tie mine; but as owner
he must keep mum or his mine
is shut down. Such decisions as
these, arrived at by disinterested
business men alter careful consider
alton, is going to have a great infiu-
ence toward the destruction of or
ganization that fails to concede any
rights to the investors of capital.
Even in Hopkins county, many
holders begin to see ruin
stare them in the face, and are daily :
coming out against the men who
seek to ruin, if they cannot succeed