Show shoestring OPERATORS H T haines utah state commissioner of immigration labor and statistics has undertaken a commendable task in the effort fort to end the activities of shoestring mining corporations itis it is all right to run t on a shoestring hank bank account so long as it covers whatever development work is ordered from year to year and many properties of merit are worked in just this way the time and effort of the off officers acers of numerous small properties are given to the affairs of the corporation totally without charge and all concerned go down into their pocketbooks to keep the assessment work going from year to year mining is founded upon this spirit and practically all great districts receive their first development in just this way but the efforts of mr haines are directed toward an entirely different class of men he has received numerous letters recently from miners who have been defrauded toy by mining corporations for which they have done assessment and other work and from which they cannot collect their wages his own words explain the situation and show the need of some form ot legislation to reach the class of sharks to whom he refers so far as I 1 have been able to learn these men have no legal remedy said mr haines most of them have done assessment work on claims the companies have no assets even the holes in the ground the men have worked on belong to the government of course the men have a first lien on any property the companies own but most of them have no assets while these men are out there doing this hard work for which they receive no pay the promoters are living off the fat of the land in our best hotels selling stock in the prospects As officers of the companies they allow themselves salaries and it takes all the money they get f from rom the sale of stock to pay those salaries it seems a hard condition to correct but I 1 am going to look for some solution |