Voices from the Field

ASSAYS

            Some of the independent 
miners claim

the mill cheats them, but I 
always figured this was their business 

and we knew about it 
anyway, even gave reasons 
for the cheating. 
                                     Over at Temple 

Mountain we knew the ore 
would run say
sixty-hundredths, but we got 
thirty-hundredths 
out of it. But we were making 

a good profit so we went along
in its entirety. 

                        When we were making
$10,000 a month, rather than say, "Well,
because you are cheating us 

we're going to quit," 
we stayed.  I'd rather get half 

of what a good seam is worth 
than mine other places and get 200%
 
of what the empty’s worth.
100% of nothing 

is nothing. 
You got to make a living.
 

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