Show the prospector anahis and his burro V V C I 1 the fine weather we have been having of late said the prospector to ills his burro has had a stimulating effect upon the mining industry of the west and especially so in localities difficult ot of access and where the snow has been deep 01 course in all al winter camps regular work has been the order of the day as a general thing but even in these now that the robins have come to nest again more steam is bein being put on oil and more ginger and vim is noticeable ti on every hand I 1 see that you stall a little at the word steam and want to know what I 1 mean by this expresion that is easy to explain steam according to the latest rendition is water gone crazy with the heat iri in other words by steam I 1 mean more activity and I 1 am putting on more steam wren when I 1 pound you on the back with a two by four in order to accelerate your speed and you are putting on I 1 steam when you get a waterbury curve with your movements atter after I 1 have given you a good mauling as aforesaid 1 I see now that you get the idea ot of steam all right and the tact fact is creditable to your intelligence which is more than I 1 can say of certain pick and shovel miners men who want a day tor for surface work but do better and more efficient work at the bar than they do in doing tunnel w work ork or running trenches this class has but little more of an idea of what steam means than you did when I 1 first put the proposition up to you but they savy all right and labor under the impression that all that is required ot them to earn the same is to stand around and look pleasant the question of mine development being of secondary importance if it ever occurs to them 1 I want to tell you old long ears the matter of steam and then more steam should enter into every mining operation with a hissing sound that would even disturb your stolid equilibrium and the more of it the better every minute during the shift the manager should have his hand on the throttle and turn on all the power that the works will stand ala a man in the face of the drift should keep up steam even it the foreman or shift boss is not standing t over him if he fails to do this he is no not t earning his pay in other words he is robbing his employer and it is a wonderful thin thing to note that some men who would woula cut their hands ands h off before they would steal a dollar from a friend or neighbor will rob their employers of time that is paid tor for time is money and think nothing of it in mining operations the equivalent tor money paid is labor and it if this labor is not put in honestly and faithfully the employee robs his employer just the same as if he put his hand in ills his pocket and filched filch ed his purse this may seem strange to you but it is a fact just the same and I 1 want to tell you that a miner needs to put on a consider abble volume of steam these days to honestly earn four and a half bucks a day to make a success in life a man must put on steam and the greater the pressure the greater the success A man cannot steam up one day and then let his fire go out the next and make a success in life none whatever there is a difference in men just the same as there is a difference between a t ii bred and a burro the thorsti thoroughbred librea man is at high pressure all the time and the governors of his mechanism stand out horizontally most of the time with men of the burro type however a lit tle tie exertion soon tires them and if thegean they can 1 get I a day for using a pound of steam when they th ey should have on a pressure of GO 60 they are perfectly satisfied to move along in life like a crippled turtle no matter whether they earn the money or not and there you are what we want is more steam and we want it all the time we want more water that has gone c razy crazy with the heat |