RELATIONS OF MINING ENGINEERING 641 



that his men know that he knows. He must study the labor pro- 

 blem so as to deal wisely in the time of need. 



Business : He must understand the principles on which busi- 

 ness is transacted so as to get fair treatment and yet keep his cus- 

 tomers. 



Finance : He must understand the principles of banking, and of 

 establishing and holding credit. 



Mining: He must understand the mining operations, safely to 

 mine, prepare, and ship the ore or coal. 



Metallurgy : He must understand the chief metallurgical opera- 

 tions for the common metals so as to suit the metallurgist with 

 his ores or become a metallurgist if opportunity and inclination 

 lead him that way. 



He will equip himself along as many of these lines as he can, and 

 establish connections for supplying those which he has not acquired. 



We will now look to see what he does in return for favors received. 



If we look about us, scarce an object can be seen to the produc- 

 tion of which the miner and metallurgist have not contributed. 

 Metal objects owe their strength to the iron or the copper alloys 

 of the miner, their purity to the metallurgist, their beauty and 

 decorative effect to gold, silver, brass, bronze, stone, pottery, and 

 wood, all of them got from the mine or fashioned by metal tools 

 from the mine. Our carriages, automobiles, locomotives move us 

 from place to place; our wires carry our telephone and telegraph 

 messages; our sewing-machines make and mend our garments; our 

 saw-mills make the lumber for our houses; our harvests of wheat, 

 corn, and potatoes, our pots and pans, knives, forks and spoons 

 for cooking and serving food, all either themselves come from the 

 hands of the miner or the tools for fashioning or getting them are 

 the result of his labor; our diplomatists after doing their all with 

 wits come as last resort to the battleship, the guns, the riffles, and 

 the lead from mines. And, finally, the medium of all finance with 

 which we run our mines, our factories, and with which we purchase 

 our wares and supply our wants, whether for peace or war, is the 

 gold from the miner's pick and shovel. We may say, then, that 

 the work of the miner reaches the interests of all. 



Coming now to the schools in which he is to prepare himself for 

 his life's work: there appear to be three plans of education which 

 deal with the problem of equipping men along mining engineering 

 and metallurgical lines. 



(1) The school of practice, supplemented by the correspondence 

 school. 



(2) The technological school. 



