Show experimentation why is it that so many mine directors interfere with their managers why do they make it their business to tell a good man how to run the property when he knows more about its needs and vagaries than they could ever learn when they get a willing and proven worker why do they not leave him alone why experiment at all let him develop the group if he is of the right stuff and knows his business lie he will make a mine of your hole in the ground provided that the ore is there to be found there is an entire sermon in the statement not lot many of a mine manager who months ago was forced by continued nagging and interference to give up his bis position at a certain idaho mine the company rocks low is said to be practically on the but whether I 1 that hat be so or not there is material for faction re in what he says 1 I 1 operated that mine for four years when it 1 lie he states 1 if I took the property 1 6 owed considerable and I 1 netted wanted the profits pro left because the flie company the in and did not want to put any back tunnel tun deep wanted to continue the mine I 1 0 f out ou to a point under the old workings several hundred hun which in the early eighties and taken thousand dollars worth of ore was body 7 ore bo where I 1 could pick up the old think I 1 would have made a mine shutting by 1 I made the property pay I 1 was down the mill and working close went shift abi morning usually out before the to eighteen e on and was at work fifteen cent of hours a day I 1 had to avoid every each ea expense by keeping wet unnecessary as it w at the work he could do best but I 1 kept the drifts drift s so the men did not p always lave have to wear rubber coats though ff t they ley we were e there for them I 1 picked up the j candle candie rods ads fuse and caps fed the men g well th ugh agh there was no waste in the g boarding house I 1 did not build the fine F boarding house and office which are there now as I 1 wanted to get a mine first la 11 aft r shutting utting sli down the mill where all the zin was run into the creek I 1 sorted k the ore and made a modified kind of huddle buddle saving practically all tile the values though the mill hao hai ha i not saved over fifty per cent that sta statement temen t is made by the kind of man who works for the interest of his company at all times there are many such contrary to general belief and anyone who supposes that there is not plenty of real work connected with tile the active management of a mine has another guess coming we can imagine their feelings when they get f orders from an easy chair board of directors to work only during the day in order to save candles and similar directions showing an equally deep insight into actual mining conditions this tendency to interfere reminds us of a bit of history related by a contemporary regarding mr riley as follows remember when they were building the southern pacific that there was a perpetual fight with the fierce waters of the sierras well riley had been on the job for years and always made good but some body got an idea that riley scientific t enough so they imported some college chap 7 1 wrapped up in diplomas and riley retired to raise hogs and chickens mr college built a costly scientific bridge down came the river and with a roar of laughter took that bridge with it the big boss raved and finally sent for riley whom the mes found among his pets tell the mon he knows where I 1 live the astonished toni shed messenger returned and told more raving but the big boss went to riley if you tell that college chump to git to liell hell where he belongs ill go worse yet but the college went and riley put in a bridge there yet there are many rileys wileys why experiment when you have found one |