Show Men Hen of Experience and aDd Integrity in Charge Charp Stimulate Investment and Scientific Press Pre i lilt iu of the most moot mo t unfortunate things ua that tha tan d 1 overtake on A mining enterprise Is in the by to the owners ot ut an aD Inex iBeX I d or ur dishonest manager The Tb Thep position p of mine manager is 18 a very wry re to one and requires not only in y but experience in mining an and metallurgical metal I operations o and good soun sound busin h ss 5 capacity and aDd experience as well wel welThe The manager m er should Mould have a knowledge of th tb details of the business buS leu under hi his direction though it is III not essential that tha he be should take a hand at mucking ucking or rs irs or even een running a ma machine machine machine chine drill but he should know some come something something thing of all ull these thelle things and to have had experience in thoe toilsome tasks tacks ta ka I not to his hili disadvantage An engineer who a few years y ars ago so was xin unknown known to same lame lam accepted a position as 81 manage r of ot a large mine In South Africa TIlE Th salary S tl attached attach was large that is largo larg for him more than hid had oer et d lefor for his cerv l kEI ies f in III accepting this position vu he dis d 1 3 lh a arr engineer n who had bid the PI e at a salary alary far below that t paid the American engineer r The new manager made changes in and bout the mine ai aloI i works and for r n time the company t nought hught they had Im hn an lit III an Amer Anmer Ian fran fan but the end nd of the year ear ho il that the iw manager had ha not only ui hed all his bis predecessor bad had been doing but i eded him and pro lured from ore orp if the same me grade crade and tonnage as that former worked a profit of tit over orr in of that made by the r This was wu during the first car ar the following year he in tn increased creased a d tI this materially and the stock rs realized th had a valuable man manin manIn manIn in t tr manager The 1 he secret of the whole Js s if it it is t a i secret f cret wah wab that the Ain ican engine r not only bad had technical his pre 1 also had that but hr hI h had learned learnd much In the t h school chool of ef bard e in the r mining amp of or the w United State Stales HP HI i iwas was to encountering and find K W ways avs of meeting and andu mu u is fully ov i oming them He seemed qua il I to almost n emergency hi in a general WaY o ty It may be bc said that o of u h men as l iri an th the mine managers of the iho west went D DI up tip Some hae have had mot I hj in 11 others t some have hae haea havea hit v va a gr faculty I T sr r IOB thai tha others othen but oi OD o ic f w wit hoi thi th y re ren ren rea n a c clI CIS i s of ot mn equal to almost any oc or ocas oras as n fl and who If It given the opportunity wilt ll II distinguish themselves for there is 19 in opportunity 1 l U is AM most ml t unfortunate that mining pr sometimes falls CaUlS into the hands J of f mine fakirs fakir who ho either are wholly Ig lg 1 orant of mining AS 8 a business or are un unprincipled unprincipled principled and seeking only to further r selfish ends enda Mining companies should place lace the management of the mines in inthe inthe Inthe the hand hi of men of experience ee and hi it and aDd this at practice e 0 more common coinon mining Investments caP can cannot not fall to become me even een more popular than ban they are today zany MaDY mining lal 0 etl of ot the latter class referred to are placed in the hands ban of the promoter or r principal al stockholder as a reward ward for tor forthe forthe the large rare personal influence they wield fri Id but It itis Ta I often at a sacrifice uce to the re remainder To of the stockholders |