Show we note that one C J crawford president of a mining company has been sentenced to pay a fine ot of or serve six months in jail by a court in los angeles for failure to pay men hired by the corporation po ration it is a worthy bit of work that done by the judge and should have a salutary effect upon other shoestring operators the fact that the unpaid claims totaled about shows that it was an aggravated case tho the fact that a mining company in oklahoma la lahoma lionia got ore with a core drill at a depth of feet only to find that the hole was not on its own ground is referred to by the press as bad luck it cannot be placed under that heading at all but bad management would fit the case exactly we wonder if a rough survey of that claim before tile the liole hole was started would have been prohibitive in cost with the reported passing of the prospector his best friend the burro is reaching out for new worlds to conquer though lie he does not know it the hides of wild burros are now being shipped from arizona to the east ostensibly for tile the manufacture of leather they ought to make good tough footwear judging f from roin the punishment which the little animals can assimilate without losing their complacent air of indifference |