The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-23

first party receiving his equity. Some
/, of the men have been enabled to pur-
chase property in fee simple in the
town by means of financial assistance
from the company Sometimes, in
Istead of borrowing money. the man
goes to the company's warehouse and
obtains the material-lumber, brick
and hardware-which is charged
against him at per cent and paid OF,
in the manner already indicated.
Employees are insured in accordance
with the state law which fixes a scale
of compensation according TO the ma
ture of the injury. Under the act the
employer pays for this insurance.
Every settlement is subject to super
vision by the industrial accident board
of the state. Even before this law was
passed the company adjusted claims
without recourse to the courts and
without standing on the letter of it's
legal liability. that is, compensation
was given for injury even when it was
caused by culpable carelessness. The
company does not carry compensation
insurance with the state nor with any
company: it compensates directly out
of its own revenue, the sum set aside
for this purpose representing a little
less than q of 1 per cent or 0.75 per
cent of the payroll. The men pay 81
per month to the hospital. This en-
titles each employee not only to the
treatment and care that the hospital
affords but to the advice Of special
lists on ear. eye nose or throat dis
eases, as well as to orthopedic and
other special treatment.
"A big mine like the Bunker Hill !
serves as the nerve center for the |
region. As Mr. Easton |
said to me: Lots of smaller activities (
hang to the coat tails of a big mining |
like this The miners ac-
cumulate a fund out of their wages
during the winter and go prospecting
in the summer. 1t must be confessed
that this useful work is less popular
than it was, so that many prefer to go
on automobile excursions or to buy a
farm Members of the staff will take
a share in a lease or small venture in
he neighboring hills. The chiefs of
he company or the company itself
Will employ members of the staff for
Investigations in regions far afield. II
While l was at Kellogg four young
men returned from the Seward PENN
iula, in Alaska. They had been there 4
our months, making an examination
II silver-lead prospect near Council.
I'VE have reviewed the history of
he discovery of the Bunker Hill &
sullivan group of mines; we have fol- z
tOpe to the mill, from the mill to the /
melter; we have watched the ship
nent of the refined metals to the
markets of the world we have traced 7
he development of the enterprise from
small beginning to a big achieve /
nent; we have seen how it contribut-
d to the growth of a model commun-
ty and the impact of personal charac- !
er upon human industry; it remains /
o suggest the influence of this min q
ng enterprise upon the lives OF men {
" recording a true story of one of
Is many thousand shareholders. When 1
was playing golf with a friend at 7
pOkane on my return from Kellogg
O San Francisco, my companion told &
he how many years ago he was in the
flee of a friend of his at Chicago.
his friend, talking about the ups and u
owns of life, remarked that when I
seemed to be going wrong '
18th him and he would turn about in
is chair and look up at the photo
raph on the wall showing the Bunker A
i'll mine and would then recall the Il
Lct that it had seemed likely to fail !;
times, yet the stock he held in the
lterprise had provided for the cloth
g. education and helpful start in Il
Isiness of his children, and the re- u
inder gave him a fresh impulse of
urage to go ahead and renewal of Ds
nfdence in the future Such a mine
the Bunker Hill is more than a hole -
the ground; it is a splendid ex- te
essiOn of hope, initiative. energy and Sc
it is the fine flower in
industrial achievement" DO