Show PAYING FOR THE JOB the mining review not long ago commented upon a case in a neighboring state in which a mine foreman had been convicted on the charge of demanding money from men who were working under him in return for the right to earn their living at that particular property and now comes a ramification of the question in the form of an advertisement verti headed mine manager wanted which is running in a contemporary publication A cursory perusal reminds one of the lines and the big bugs have bigger bugs to jump on them and bite them and the bigger bugs have bigger bugs and so ad infinitum the advertisement first tells of a vast acreage of patented ground upon which a fair sized fortune has been expended in development and upon which several strong veins are represented to have been opened carrying values ranging from milling ore up to well above to the ton and then comes the naive offer to capable mine manager of experience we can make an attractive proposition providing he can rase raise development fund of or can you beat it there here is a corporation which steps forward bravely and says we have a property of which we have made a failure though we have spent a great deail deal of money upon it we cannot make it pay but if you are a capable mine manager of experience and can turn our failure into k a paying proposition we are willing to promise you a reasonable salary provided that you will raise the money to pay for future work including your own salary and that of other of officials of the company it is about as reasonable as to say to a man here you throw up your job and finance yourself on a prospecting expedition if you find a real mine we are willing to allow you a quarter interest speaking about paying for the privilege ro 1 f working i it would be hard to surpass s this offer this is a strange world and it would seem that there are ara others besides athe the heathen chinee who are peculiar and we are led to wonder how many capable mine managers of experience answered that advertisement |