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Show i THE PRECIOUS METAL MIXER. ! The Difference Between Him and j the Laborer or Farmer. i The precious metal miner is not an ignorant ig-norant laborer. If he begins ignorant he cannot remain so. Constant change and different features are continually thrust upon his notice, thus forcing him to be observant and in fact a student of the formation for-mation of the particular spot of earth in which he daily toils. The farmer has a routine, treadmill life in comparison, and it follows that few farm hands are really good farmers. Most miners are good miners because brain as well as muscle is daily called into exercise. A good farmer in one county is a good farmer m another county for the reason that the conditions and requirements to produce a crop are identical. In mining, however, there is infinite variety. An expert ore-sorter in Nye county mines might find it difficult to distinguish between pay mineral and barren rock in Eureka county. Wheat and oats can be judged as to market value by appearance and weight, but this test will not answer upon ores, no matter how familiar with them one may become. In appearance and weight two pieces of rock may be exactly alike, and yet one is valuable and the other worthless. One streak of ore in the mine may be very rich and another close to it of low grade, so that the former will be saved and the latter dumped as of no practical value, but in course of time it frequently happens hap-pens that the richness departs from the one and is found in the other. Occurrences Occur-rences of this kind, as well as many other changes, compel the miner to be wide awake and obsevant, and his mind is kept as active as his hands. His toil is of an excitintr plmrapf.pr. anti li Rulrlnm Ko. comes sluggish in intellect, as is so often the case in other forms of manual .labor. The miner is hopeful and ambituous, because be-cause his labor is not stultifying to either body or mind, and this peculiarity will ever preserve his calling honorable and desirable. |