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Show on-livuleinl .Mine. The following from an "old miner" contains mote truth than poetry : The cry iin England is that the mines of t'tah will not pay. The reason is obvious to all hereabout. It cannot be expected that the shareholders share-holders will ever g. t a dividend if the same course is pursued in the future as in the past. A good mine is put unon the English market and the ,-jtoek is taken, the company formed, and parties are sent out to look after the company's interest..-: but who are Uiosc that are sent out Gcuilcmcn of the army or navy, perhaps men who never saw a mine, and all the knowledge they hae of mines or mining, gained by reading somebody's some-body's work on mhu ralocy. Theory is all well, but that without the prae-:ie,u prae-:ie,u knowledge will not do. Then .he 1 1 . i - paid tin -e cnikinen-min-erby iin; companies, is enough h -wamn auv miueiu the known world. heii men are paid ail the way from one liioii-and to eight thou-aiid dol-lers dol-lers per ninntii, to "-it ar-nmd and never mind," it will lake richer mines J.ian have ever yet been di-cvered to pay sharch, v, lets dividends. lhe.-e nt:,'iui-u are acquis in. ins to any -oeieiy. a they are reallyvery elegant ' in maimer and appearance; hut if we owned shares in a. miuimr company, we should be better pl- as.xl to have more practical knowledge and less elegance of style. Old Miser, |