| Show MINE management on numerous occasions the mining review has given its readers its views on mine management it has been often asserted that it must be a poor mine indeed that will not stand bad management this may be true and yet no valid excuse exists where there any property should be badly managed and it is true that many really valuable properties have been closed down dowl and condemned as worthless and valueless because of incompetency and bad judgment on the part of the superintendent many cases of this character can be cited in this intermountain region and an instance of reckless extravagance and stupendous lg 19 norance on the part of a mine su superintend ten en dent has lately come to our notice ahr one of our arizona exchanges the mina MI I 1 arai wealth of kingman the property in ques qu 8 tion is the elkhart mine near chloride 01 that state the property is owned by a an 11 english syndicate when short of fund funds the superintendent would cable the cor co n pany that some rhyolite was showing in the vein which had an east and west trend with a dip to the south then another as I 1 ses would be levied and this contin aed until the company had haa expended nearly half a million in mine development and equipment then it was that the stockholders began to roar and the present man mall ager was sent out to dismantle the works and to close down the mine curious to know how the half million had been bee 11 e ex X he decided to inspect the mine workings in doing this he took with him h i in a quick witted irishman pat murphy a mill mining man of long experience pat looked for the ore says mineral wealth and so did mr barremore Bar pat finally said it looks good to me and he sunk his pick to the first level in solid galena continuing pat said laving out the dips spurs and angles and that east and west vane that comes in deeper the mine ought to ie be good for at least dividends monthly on arriving at the surface the new manager dismissed the auctioneer for the mine was to have been sold at auction the property was then equipped with machinery and is now a regular producer and on a paying basis thus says mineral wealth a change of management often changes an assessable property into a divi bend payer if the truth were known there is every reason to believe that many valuable properties are cursed by bad management while many companies and investors are ruined from the same cause the resurrection of many abandoned mines in me west and the placing of them in the dividend paying column is proof orthis of this some mine superintendents ten dents would be much better employed in pushing a mine car and in landscape gardening than in the management of a mine and the sooner the companies employing them make this vital discovery the better it would be for all concerned it 11 this question were to be considered and looked into more closely it is safe ta to SELY say that many mine superintendents would be given their time and competent and experienced men installed in their places |
