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round, asKing a question here, making a suggestion there; 

 now examining a new rock drill, now watching some experi- 

 ment or other. Having been years underground himself, and 

 through every department of the work above ground, he knew 

 at a glance when things were right. From end to end he had 

 planned the whole establishment, and in more senses than 

 one was its master. His rule was firm but just, and even 

 liberal. It extended not only over the mine but over the 

 adjoining town in which the men lived. Every cottage be- 

 longed to the company; so did the schools, the town hall, and 

 the free library. All were under the manager's rule, tem- 

 pered in some cases with the help of a committee. Above 

 ground and below the whole place was a model of organiza- 

 tion. In the long series of operations one succeeded another 

 with perfect regularity, until the ore was shot into the im- 

 mense ore cars and started off for its shipping place on Lake 

 Superior, where it dropped out of the cars into ore bins, and 

 from the bins was run into lake steamers. 



What this kind of mine manager may do is to be seen not 

 only in the western states but in many other parts of the 

 world. It was conspicuously exemplified on the Rand gold- 

 field at a critical period of its history. At the opening up of 

 the Rand many costly mistakes had been made by the self 

 styled mining engineers, who always turn up in crowds on 

 such occasions and exploit them much to their own advantage 

 and the corresponding loss of their employers. The original 

 movement had in consequence collapsed, and it remained in 

 discredit until Cecil Rhodes had the happy thought of calling 

 in some American experts. It is needless to recall the won- 

 derful transformation they effected. Amateur muddlings 

 were replaced by scientific methods. Cheap inefficient plant 

 was cleared out to make room for machinery that would work. 

 Order and system were brought out of chaos. Profits began to 

 appear where hitherto there had been monthly deficits. The 

 Rand was, in a word, reorganized, or rather it was organized 

 for the first time. 



The present generation of Americans contains a larger 

 number of great organizers than were ever simultaneously at 

 work before. They have distinguished themselves as railroad 



