Year: 1877

Then he informs the public that |
am acquainted with Mr.. Millholland,
who had ne locked up once in the
county hotel for afe-keeping, as |
was an important witness in a case
that that gentleman had in court. AS
to the locking up it was for contempt
only of court, and not for sheep steal
/ ing. | never knew that it was a vio-
/ lation of the ten commandments to be
acquainted with your employer until
informed by this miscarriage of in
iqoity, Equal Rights"


Now fer his assertion about news
paper putting for an advance Of wa
ges. I would puff all day if I
thought it wou,d have any effect, but
he ought to try it and then he will lind
out that it won advance one cent.


Then as regards 'he weight Of
which the miner is robbed. It is a
well known fact that no "here j. the
coal field, without an exception, does
the miner get fairer weight, and in no
manner of wav does the officers of the
company, outside Of the weighm aster,
inte sfere with the weight. In rela-
ton to the docking let me remind
Equal Rights that here is not one
tenth part docked now that was dock


I'd under the former management.
As far as the mines that | am engag-
ed in are concered, the miners know
that it is to their advantage to send
out clean coal, and I hear little or no
grumbIing amongst them upon that
subject. And as regards discharging
men and sending them out west for
being docked three times, let me ask
Equal Rights" who established that
rule? He will find out it was the
miners themselves under the former
management, and the present admin
istration is not responsible for the law.
Now what does this white washed
specimen Of honesty, Equal Rights, "
think about this? Deny it, If you
can. Your assertion that there are
seven or eight dock bosses at the
Ocean mine is another base falsehood,
and YOU knew it to be so when you
wrote it. 1t could only come from a
mind SO depraved as to be almost be-
yond the hope Of redemption.


Now, sir, your statement about the
condition of the mines now and their
condition when the present manage
ment took charge. Let us examine
the facts, my christian friend, In the
first place, neither the Hoffman or
the Pompey Smash mine was in a con
dition for man or horse to enter, for
the reason that there was not sutfi-
cient air passing through them to
keep den Of Lizards in a healthy
condition, and it seems there was not
not brains enougA in the agent to
remedy it, for in constructing the
ventilating furnace in the Pompey
Smash mine they built up the front of
it with two ron doors, the same qs a
pudding fuI uaee for smelling non, 50
as al the air that could Ell oer was
hat which passed through the CRATE
bars. An idiot would have known
more. Then, as regards the working
Of the mine, it was nearly ruined. BY
their system of WORKING it took a
creep and four headings was lost
thereby, losing thousands of tons OF
the company's cos. 1t was an every
day occurrence tv see three and four
rooms running into on, and Ill driv-
en- b., sights hung by the compass
These are facts and "EQl lal Rights
cant deny them. There was grave
doubt on all practical mems mluas
whether the main heading could be
saved or not, and it was only through
the practical knowledge Of the pres
ent Superintendent, at large eXpen-
f diture of money for labor and timber
that it was saved.


Now, as to the condition Of the
roads that he asks me about. The
lover heading then was in such con


dItion that horse had to haul one
car at time for some distance; now
they haul four cars. Then, yon hac
to take off shoes and stockings going
/ into work, SO as to have them dry
I while at work Now, you have {
good, dry road all the way. Then
: they took out three hundred tons pei
day; now, they can take ont six hund.
, ed tons. Then, we had no air; now
We have the best in the county. /