Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-10
Executive of Properties Have
 Stockholders to Answer and the Public to Satisfy, Which Is Small Part of Their Work
MUST BE. DIPLOMATS
 AND ALSO GENERALS
Mines Can Be Divided Into Several Classes, Stock Com panies Where the Public Is Largely Interested.

I Sometimes his title is manager. | others it is superintendent, but, any way, the executive officer of q mine l or prospect has difficulties to meet | from within, which are invisible to | the public, as well as others from | without, which are visible. Mining | companies, like flesh, are weak and it ] so happens at times that managers, superintendents and engineers are eX- | pected to Gc more than take care of ] the mere physical work of handling their properties to the satisfaction of ] the last whim of their employers. but they are expected also to ease the news out to the public of what the mine is (not) doing and what ore it has (not) struck. On the other hand they are required at times to not only give out no information, but to look honest and swear there is none and if there was it would be nobody's business.
 To illustrate the point, mining com panies may be divided into two. gen eral classes. One is the close cor poration which has no shares to sell to the public, nothing to plomote and. which regards the public as fifth wheel to its automobile, therefore. not exactly necessary. Into this class the ones that have developed plenty of ore, have mines and not prospects and think they have no favors to ask. hn i- hn oh, wants the public to know all there is to know and sometimes a lot more, and in this class fall the ones that have down to a nicety the practice of the art of pyramiding the public con fidence and incidentally their own shares far away and above their in- trinsic value, which in other words, takes the form of so-called manipula- tion.
 The young mining engineer grad
 uates from college and goes out and works for a couple of years as a miner. He then is ready to accept something better in either of the three designated employments - manager superintendent or engineer. Or he
 may be a man in middle life or old
 age, out of employment and needing
 it so badly that he cannot afford to
 turn down anything-at any rate for
 "a little while" soon he discovers
 what he already knew, that he is re- quired not only to do certain work and to get more work out of other men,
 put that he must make the facts ap- pear just as his company requires
 them to be interpreted. Many man
 in middle life, who knows nothing but
 mining and who has a family depen-
 dent upon him, feels excused in de-
 veloping. or making use of. if already
 developed, a mining conscience, and
 he feels at any rate that his family
 comes first. A young engineer with
 out a reputation has his career before
 him and he prizes it more than if it
 were behind him. Getting employ
 ment and holding it are his besetting
 difficulties and there are times when
 he is placed in a position of having
 to make slight choice between courses
 of action that lead to altogether diff
 ferent destinations.
 Both of these are thrown into con
 tact with both classes of mining com
 panies. more generally the latter of
 the two with something to sell or
 promote Most of them are honest.
 as men go, and the young man fortu-
 nate enough to not be asked to em-
 ploy unseemly methods counts him
 self fortunate indeed.
 But whether it be to bull or bear
 the stock, to help out the immediate
 purposes of either the promotion or
 the close corporation that wishes to
 get better terms from the seller or
 buy out its neighbor or freeze out
 other stockholders the mine eXecu-
 tive is the man upon whom the ruling
 forces thrust the responsibility of
 substantiating the facts or alleged
 facts in regard to the mine. It goes
 so far at times as to take the form
 of signatures to writing and these Continued on page 0