Show the prospector anahis and his burro 7 I 1 f 1 I 1 6 there is all the difference in the world in the makeup make up of mine managers and mine superintendents said the prospector to his burro a difference which ultimately leads to success or to dismal failure some men who have charge of the development of mining properties are thoroughly satisfied when the ghost walks and whan wh an they receive the usual allowance for a week of incompetent and unfruitful service and the approach of pay day is of mol moie e moment to them than is the result of mine development or the future outlook for the property whose operation is under their charge they do not take life at all serious they remember the old adage that care killed a cat and do not intend that their labor shall be so severe the drain upon their feeble brains so heavy that the strain upon their physical vigor or upon their mentality will be at all noticeable to the most casual observer in fact they cheerfully leave all of the worry and anxiety to be borne by their employer but smilingly go on in their course of mismanagement and mine wrecking until lack of success calls for a change of managers and superintendents or until the mine owner or the company is compelled to suspend operation through lack of funds there are other men however who are keenly alive to the seriousness and responsibilities of their position who give deep thought to every detail of mine operation who make a study of formations and mine conditions and who look to it that every man in his employ is the th e man for his place and that he is giving honest and efficient service for every day that he is employed such men jo do not count so much upon what they are getting as they do upon results obtained and if there is a mine in the th e property being developed under their direction and management they will make it and this recalls my mind to the fact that the mining press is having much to say these days about deep thinking fast sinking and the idea is a good one and tenable 1 I see by the workings of your head adornments that you are of the th e opinion that you would make a good mine manager that can boast of being as you ini imagine agine 0 you a deep thinker but one can cannot not judge by appearances to look at you one would be led to believe that your reasoning power was great and that if you did not let up you might have an attack of brainstorm but none whatever as you belle belie your looks for you are only stupid and there is where the trouble comes in in the selection of a mine superintendent or manager for many mine owners mistake stupidity as the outward mas mask k of the deep thinker the usual appearance of the man who is able to work with his brains as well as with his hands and this accounts for the fact that so many men are put in charge of mining propositions who would not even make good muck ers 1 I want to tell you old long ears continued the prospector the deep thinker is generally the fast sinker he provides every facility for successful operation and then he sees to it that the men in his employ do a days work for a days pay the result being that the mine is developed in a thorough systematic and successful manner the man who is not a deep thinker is often a deep drinker and his presence in and around a mine is detrimental to the morale of his men and a menace to th the e best interests of his company moreover he is not a fast sinker excepting that he sinks his employers deeper in the hole and lie he even the good influence on a camp that a burro would have when I 1 put a man in charge of mine development I 1 want him to have my best interests at heart and not entertain the idea that he is attending as ai fourth of july celebration or that life is one long glad song none whatever |