The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-05-15

|)onlhafGliS MN with protests and
ne has determined to have the sa-
toors close each night at II O'Clock
and remain closed all day Sunday.
The Prosprctor and His Bulrow.
The fine weather we have been
having of late said the @prospector
to his burro, has had a stimulating
effect upon the mining industry OF
the west. and especially so in local
titles difficult OF access and where
the snow has been deep. Or course
in all-Winter camps, regular work has
been the order of lne day, as a gen
eral thing, but, even in these, o
thai the robins have come to nest
again, more steam is being put on,
and more ginger and steam is notice
able on every hand. ] see that you
stall a little at the word steam, and
want to know what | mean by this
expression. That is easy to explain.
Steam, according to the latest rendi-
ton, is water gone crazy with the
heat. In other words, by steam, |
~ 80 NV N'bi$ NY, IL / Oil t'uls
ing on more steam when ! pound
o on the back with a two-by-four
IN order to accelerate our speed, and
on are putting on steam when you
get a Waterbury curve with your
movements after | have given you
a good mauling as aforesaid.
Il see now that you get the idca
of steam all right, and the fact is
areditable to our intelligence, which
is more than ] can say of certain
pick and shovel miners, men who
want $3.50 a day for surface work,
but do better and more efficient work
at the bar than they do in doing
tunnel work or RAINING trenches.
This class has but little more idea of
what steam means than you did
Wien first put the proposition up
to yon, bat they say $3.50 all right,
nd labor under the impression that
all that is required Of them to earn
he same is to stand around and look
pleasant. the question of mine de-
V&i0pment being OF secondary i'm
portance, il it yer occurs to them.
Il want 10 tell you. old Long Ears,
the matter OF steam, and then more
team, should enter into every min
s9g operation with a Kissing sound
that would even disturb your solid
Equilibrium, and the more Of it the
bettGr. Every minute during the
manager should have his hand on the
/ ! y ~ .,,,l y,,., ~,y III - ,..,-
tat the works will stand. The man
IN the fare of the drift should keep
mp steam, eyen If the foreman or
hift boss is not standing over him
T. he Fails TO do this he is not earn
g bis pay. In other words, he is
robDing his employer, and it is a
wonderful thing to note that some
men who would cut their hands off
before they would steal a dollar from
4 friend or %neighbor will rob their
employers of the time that is paid
for, for time is money, and think
nothing of it. In mining operations
the equivalent for money paid is
labor, and if this labor is not put in
honestly and faithfully the en-
ployee robs his employer just the
same as if he put his hand in his
pocket and filched his purse. This
may seem strange to you but it is a
fact just the same, and | want to tell
you that a miner needs to put on a
considerable volume of steam, these
days to honestly earn four and a
half bucks a day.
ITO make a success of life a man
must put on steam, and the greater
the pressure the greater the success
a man cannot steam up one day anG
then let his fire go out the next, ant
make a success of life; none what
ever. There is a difference in mel
just the same as there is a difference
between a thoroughbred and a bur
70. The thoroughbred man is a
+, high pressure all the time, and tn
governors Of his mechanism stan
out horizontally most of the time
| with men of the burro type, however
a little exertion soon tires them
and if they can get $3.50 a day 70
using a pound of steam when the
2 should have a pressure of sixty, the
t are perfectly satisfied to move alon
in life like a crippled turtle, no ma
ter whether they earn the money {
not; and there you are. What W
want is more steam, and we want
n all the time. We want more watt
II that has gone crazy with the heat
C Salt Lake Mining News.
&c An Adventurous Correspondent.
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A. man to represent it at Washington
h a good illustration of it's wise poll
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