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The milling business requires a great many trades and 

 occupations in its operation, and mines are so situated 

 that all have to be under the control of the manager, 

 and ready for immediate use, and in the nature of the 

 situation this can only be accomplished, in many cases, 

 by having a manager who embodies in himself a general 

 knowledge of all these necessary qualifications. This 

 important fact is often overlooked or set aside in 

 appointing managers, and when difficulties arise the 

 enterprise suffers great loss, or perishes from want of 

 prompt means for overcoming them. A man may be a 

 good practical miner, a good mechanic, metallurgist or 

 mineralogist ; may have graduated with the highest 

 honors from one of our many invaluable mining schools 

 or colleges, or may have had long experience in actual 

 mining operations, and yet be unfit to manage and con- 

 trol an extensive mining enterprise, owing to lack of in- 

 dispensable business qualifications, the ability to con- 

 trol himself, his own feelings and inclinations, to keep 

 always before his mind the sole object of the business as 

 far as he is concerned as manager, and to utilize every- 

 body and everything and direct all to the end in view, 

 A specialist never makes a good manager. A good man- 

 ager requires to pick out specialists to fill positions in 

 the various branches of the business and only requires 

 general but correct ideas and general knowledge of all 

 branches, and of human nature, in order to pick out the 

 most suitable person to fill the special positions fully, so 

 that the manager can always be at liberty to devote his at- 

 tention to every part without being trammelled by the de- 

 tailed duties, which would prevent that freedom of mind 

 and body which "eternal vigilance " — the price of busi- 

 ness success as well as the price of liberty — requires. 



When mining operations are conducted upon sound 

 business principles, they are as safe and free from great 

 risks as most other manufacturing, mercantile or com- 



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