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. Mining and Scientific Press . ey lead by- -tions that have a tendency toward the developmentof civic pride. The old-time mining camp, like T • • twed. The result was fearful and wonderful to beholdtowns, three, five, and sometimes ten miles loibuilt along either side of a dirty and literally stinkinglittle creek. There was absolutely no thought of sanita-tion. Each individual had to care for his own Wisupply, and a systematic garhage-disp • was unheard of. unless one could call the universal praof dumping the garbage in the aforementioned creek matic. Houiinto each other in Mich a manm p Ipo
. Mining and Scientific Press . ey lead by- -tions that have a tendency toward the developmentof civic pride. The old-time mining camp, like T • • twed. The result was fearful and wonderful to beholdtowns, three, five, and sometimes ten miles loibuilt along either side of a dirty and literally stinkinglittle creek. There was absolutely no thought of sanita-tion. Each individual had to care for his own Wisupply, and a systematic garhage-disp • was unheard of. unless one could call the universal praof dumping the garbage in the aforementioned creek matic. Houiinto each other in Mich a manm p Ipossible; modern ?? dwellii n ith two- and llnvn , Bhacks, built from the lea tie- mine timber dumps; no trees or grass ploU onal around tie- companys office isupply was in many instances Dearly impossible I more than one company •• iting in the town, on. had to trade at the store operated by th m; which he was working, or uc t Ins time Such *>• re theconditions to In- endured by the married miner; for the. AN OLD-TIME minim; CAMP!?? man. there was tie- choice of living with on. families, or in tl ompanys boarding-hi Many of tl hildren, owing to their environment. \ unclean and The public schools, when they lad institutions, were held in buildings that no lotwould serve for any other purp The disorderlh ... Hected in the mill • tly and intrical machinery were housed in ramshackle building an or attention _ given to op-keep until they wore out through misuse, when they were replact rtly pr lun th- mining company dry-house or chain-consisted, in many individual ? two or three nailsdriven up behind the boiler in the vain hope thai 01?Hid dry over-night The tools, such as drill nia,.. i ami drill st. found in tl. piles than at the wor] nd everywhi rand a tired, : of men. Theywould come to work tired in the morning; would put in their time grumbling at the lack of tools, lack of ventilation, or general . working aloi gy
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