Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-02-10

 careful not to "salt" your own samples or assays, because you do not want to fool yourself. You do not want to send in your sheet of assays, and then find that the mill run doesn't stand up to the assays. You go to very careful lengths to know the value per ton ofevery ton sent to mill for treat ment, and the per cent of value at every step of the progress.
 It's Cots of trouble" isn't it? But just the same you must know. Guess ing won't do. If there is any step that isn't making the saving you must know where to put your hand on the loss. You can't very we'll cut the wages of the miners and laborers to make up for losses in some step of the treat ment, because you cannot fool the di- rectors into believing that you are saving the values by cutting the wages.
 If you knew as much about your Costs Per Ton as you do about your Value Per Ton, your Costs Per Ton would be less and your Profits Per Ton would be larger.
 Every industry, every development, and every construction job, planned and directed by an engineer. Sue cess or failure of the enterprise is laid upon the shoulders of the engi- neer. It makes no difference, whether it be the construction of building, a factory, tunneling a mountain, dam ing a river, building canal, a power plant, or developing mine, the stock holders or investors who furnish the money expect to make profit upon their investment. They put the re- sponsibility upon the engineer. He must figure out the cost of materials, tools, supplies, freight, power, dis tance from market, sanitary condi- tions, construction costs, time requir- ed, labor, and the cost of the product or finished job.
 The Capitalist, the Engineer
 and Labor.
 Every capitalist expects the engi- neer to be right. If he did not, he would not invest his money under the engineers direction. He would at least get other engineering advice.
 Under these conditions-which exist everywhere-the engineers are held responsible for the Cost of the Finish ed Product, and are responsible for the expenditure of the money in every step. Why then should president or board of directors "but in" and tamper with the wages of labor, any more than they should tamper with machinery or equipment?
 If the costs are too high for the finished product to yield a profit, the board or executive officers might di- rect the engineers to devise ways and means of reducing costs, or get other engineers advice, or shut down till equipment and modern methods can be applied. But there is no more sense in throwing monkey wrench into the labor units than there is in throwing it into any other piece pf machinery under the direction of the engineer.
 The engineer knows Cor should know) what labor is worth and how to use it without abuse, just as he knows every other step of the work. If he don't know, the industry needs another engineer.
 Labor depends upon the engineer for it's job, it's safety and. its di- rections. Without the engineer, labor would not know what to do nor how to do it. Capital depends upon the engineer for it's job, it's safety, and its directions. Without the engineer capital would not know what to do, nor how to do it.
 The engineer knows how much each are worth. Both depend on him. He is the natural one and the only quail fled one to adjust the earning capaci- ties of both. Put the matter squarely on the engineers shoulders. !,
 Both capital and labor are greedy; they want all they can get, but neith- CT one knows how to figure "costs per ton" in advance of the work. Many accountants can tell you what it does cost, but only the engineer can tell you what it should cost.
 If you'll put your problems fairly up to the engineer, and let him work out all the details-including the labor-you'll have no labor difficult ties.
 have handled men for 25 years, and have had many thousands on the payroll at time. I have never had a labor dispute of one hour, nor have I ever had committees of the workers wait on me, to demand or request any thing. l am going to give you here my method of avoiding labor difficult ties, and keeping the cost of produc- tion at the very bottom.
 How to Avoid Labor Difficulties.
 Whenever any neighboring plant under similar conditions is producing at a lower cost per ton than l am, then think there is something wrong