Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-09 | Page 5 | Wanted Merry Men in Camp

wanted merry men in camp dr william henry drummond the ot the french canadians has iven up his medical practice and gone into copper mining the dom anlon part of els duty recently was to engage a number of workmen in doing so he astonished everybody by a radical departure from old time methods after asking some more or less perfunctory questions regarding a candidate s ability as a miner he inquired can you play the fiddle or concertina 9 do you singa it was noticed that unless the man could give affirmative reply to at least two of these questions he stood small chance of getting work the wisdom of dr drummond a course became apparent when it developed that near ly all the men he engaged were good humored fellows whose happy spirits the mining camp in peace