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pretty good prospects.And now comes my story. My first year here was spent in Chitta* balbie mine as shift boss, next two years as foreman of Chittabalbie, next two years as foreman af Maibang and then I left for a six m6nths’ trip around the world, landed at home, got married and am back here again. Am living at Tabanie, where the offices for all camps are situated and am superintendent of development work on prospects which arc turning out pretty tine.One prospect Chintni is now supplying 20 stamp mills at Taracol. (Taracol mine .shaft was burned out from Xo. 3 level to surface on March 3rd in which the foreman, a white man, and eight Koreans lost their lives). They were overcome by gas and smoke before they could reach surface by other ways).Candlestick mine is another promising prospect, having an out-crop of over a mile long and rich but. narrow. Will erect ten stamp mill on it this summer and have numerous other prospects that look''well. This company has a great thing, is capitalized at five million, pay 10 per cent, dividends and always have a large reserve fund. • iEach camp has its boarding house and food is served by Chinese cooks and waiters and is very good and plenty, all kind of vegetables being /rown here and good Tieef, but nothing else. Everything else being shipped in.We all have good houses and are furnished with wood and electric lights. My house contains four rooms and a bath and is very convenient and comfortable.The Koreans are a very timid people and very easy to handle but are somewhat indolent, but make very good laborers if watched, better than either the Japanese or Chinamen. The Japanese are worthless on any heavy work. All they want to do is light work and tinker. The United Slates are doing well to exgjude them as they are the worst of the three Mongolian races and arc disliked by all white people that know' them. They seem very polite hut ’tis never meant that way.This is quite a lengthy letter for
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Belgrade Kendall Miner
Belgrade, Montana, US
Fri, May 17, 1907
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