Show A FAIR EXCHANGE IS NO ROBBERY once upon a time and not many years I 1 ago the mining engineer or operator M carded a lesson learned by painful experience as something to be hugged to his bosoni bosom and cherished and not for a great deall deal would lie he impart to others what he ha ha learned this seems to be a charac characteristic c of the human race however along any lilli lias of business and it is still found to a certain extent in the mining game especially among the smaller men pope yeatman consulting engineer for of ol 01 the guggenheim companies in speaking I 1 this trait recently said the old idea that mining engineers of one big company must keep their knowledge secret is a thing of tm the past Ii directors rectors of these companies have learned that it is well for their engineers to exchange ideas with those of other big COB chini banies much is learned in this manner and add much is saved for all of the companies in the way of experiments and waste these few words of one of the ablest e engineers in the business contain the eSs essence ClIce of a possible long dissertation upon the suo SO eject but an extended lecture is not feces ne ary to the thinking man and it does no 9 booi gooi to the other kind however if this plan lab is isco ilo had been pursued in the past as there city V t it will be followed in tile the future nu mine alzin jirous arous great failures would have been ar liner eded aided in tile the mining business and numer gitil Os successes would have developed into eho pater successes in fact many famous I 1 ir would never have been failures at t 1 but would have terminated with the suc an consummation of the hopes that go was wag ato to any human endeavor all that hat is need is a danger flag at the commencement of to atch ilch trail which has been tried and found jg blead now nowhere liere and such flags can be jt aed an by a few words of warning from the who knows j an dot ivell ivel sit it can scarcely y be amiss to suggest to the r we ore obscure engineer operator or miner A raa at wt lie he cannot do better than follow the afrim ad now being delineated by the better utown wn members of the profession along this aw ne at least and by the exchange of ideas ad experience lie he may avoid many pitfalls ick fad J v help himself to become in time one of ralda e leaders instead of remaining a trailer e ai r |