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Show "Carried Out" Loads, According to Order Not so many years ago a mining en- I irineer was sent to the Interior of t Mexico to speed up wnrk on a slher I mine. I lie found primitive means of mov- , lug ore and sent In a hurry call for several hundred wheelbarrows. They arrived and were eyed with a Utile j distrust by Ihe miners until Ihe senoi , took one by the handles followed by ' the mine foreman with another and : wheeled It Into the mine. Whereupon the others followed. Once Inside, they were shown how J to fill Ihe barrows. Several carried out j these Instructions to the loiter, until they had learned the art Rullloiontl.v i to be left to their own devices. I Then, with insl rucl ions lo carry the ore to the walling cars, the superln ; tendon! and foreman left. j Some time later the engineer and the foreman returned, expecting to see great progress. Instead, they found Ihe men oheorllly wheeling their harrows har-rows Into the mine and lilling them 1 with ore. Then It required three or four men to carry the load out ; two j shouldering a handle each nud Hi. I other bearing Ihe rest of Ihe weight. J They had not been taught lo wheel out Ihe loaded harrow.; merely to wheel Ihein In nod had be mi told lo J carry Ihe ore oul ! Nallon Mir-inos |
