Annual Report of the Inspector of Mines
Stone, G. W. Excerpt from Annual Report of the Inspector of Mines: Of the State of Kentucky, for the Year 1897There are questions affecting labor and wages, arising from the two methods of mining, that have never been satisfactorily nor finally determined, and, as a result, wherever machines are introduced there is disfavor and difficulty in adjusting wages to suit the new condi tions. Pick mining is paid for by the ton. A day's time is whatever the miner ...