All the western states and territories . he most dif-ficult of all chemical processes, requiring practice with a peculiar aptnessfor metallurgy, so diversified and intricate are the combinations of this metalwith other minerals. No college professor, however fine a metallurgist hemight be, could successfully manage the reduction works of a silver mine;Americans, until they learn the art, and improve upon it, as is their na-tional bent, will be compelled to procure their talent of this kind from thosebred from youth to this branch, in Mexico and Germany. Aside from thisdifficulty, enormous outl
All the western states and territories . he most dif-ficult of all chemical processes, requiring practice with a peculiar aptnessfor metallurgy, so diversified and intricate are the combinations of this metalwith other minerals. No college professor, however fine a metallurgist hemight be, could successfully manage the reduction works of a silver mine;Americans, until they learn the art, and improve upon it, as is their na-tional bent, will be compelled to procure their talent of this kind from thosebred from youth to this branch, in Mexico and Germany. Aside from thisdifficulty, enormous outlays are required to start and work a silver mine:this can generally only be obtained by associated capital. With this comes 566 ARIZONA TERRITORY. the cumbrous, awkward revolving machinery of corporations, and its attend-ant evils of mismanagement, in which the interests of the small, confidingstockholder are too apt to be the last thing attended to by directors andagents. Could the amount of money lost in our Union, within the last ten. Reduction Worlcs of the Heintsclman Silver Mine. The engraving is from a drawing by H. C. Grosvenor. This establishment is on the famous Reduction Works are in front, where the ore is reduced to silver by the German (Freybiirg) amalgam •ation barrel process. On the extreme right of the inclosiire is the corral for the mules. In the rear isseen the officersquarters and store houses; on the left and also in the rear of the store-houses are thehuts of the Mexican laborers or peons, of whom here and in the mine several hundred are employed. Thebuildings are all adobes. years alone, by the selfishness and mismanagement of men in charge of cor-porations be ascertained, it would probably sum up many fold the value ofall the property more courageously stolen by the united labor of all the bur-glars who have been thrust into the cells of our penitentiaries, from thefoundation of the government to the present day. Thus multitudes, orp
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