BEAUTIES OF MINING AS CONDUCTED ON THIS BASIS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1223, 22 January 1883, Page 2

BEAUTIES OF MINING AS CONDUCTED ON THIS BASIS.

' How in' thunder do you run your mine !' 'On the assessment plan, sir. The latest and most improved method. We have a big map of the mine hung up in the company's office, made by one of the most competent artiststs on the Coast- How when we have.a good map of the loAver workings we don't need any works to speak of. We photograph the swage hoisting works from tho Norcross testlework — an entirely new view and call it by our name, the Bullion Brick. I keep a man in Virginia at one hundred dollars a month to superintend the location and write weekly letters, and I stay in San Francisco at my office in Pine-street, and levy assessments every sixty days ; that's as often as the law allows. I'm the President, Board of Trustees, Secretary, Treasurer and everything — more especially the Treasurer. Of course, I draw salary for all the officers, and when I get through drawing salaries I turn the rest over to the Agent in Virgina to pay off the hands. By not employing any hands he saves enough to pay himself. My regular income from that mine is two hundred thousand dollars a year and never a pick stuck in the ground. That is what I call scientific mining, ' sir.' : You get the silver out of the pockets of the stockholders and leave the vast argentiferous and aurif jrous deposits in your claim for your children, who can go right ahead and develop the mine just as soon as the public quit putting up, which isn't at all likely to happen. As soon as a man drops on the game he dies, and the newcomers all have to lean for themselves. As long as people are born in Nevada and California, my mine will run on like a chronomer clock.' 'But.' said the Utah man, ( my style of mining keeps a lot of men at work.' 'So does mine,' quoth the Golden Gate chap. 'Thousands of men are working night and day to pay the assessment. It keeps the country as steady as a beehive.' And the speaker sauntered into the telegraph office to order assessment No. 36.— Salt Lake Tribune.