after having finished that season, not having a job that's after i had graduated, i went into the minsdsat grass valley in california. being familiar with the mines from a previous work i had done for the geological survey. i sought a job and i thought my dib ma might be of importance, and i might be on the staff of some mine. but that diploma didn't seem to impress anybody and finally i got to a condition where i took a job yound ground in a mine and i worked five months, i think, or six as a common miner. and it was not a bad experience. i worked five months or six. >> i understand you to say, sir, that you took a job as a common mine centre. >> yeah, sure. >> what kind of a mine was it? >> it was a gold mine. i didn't even have the distinction of being a miner. i started by loading trucks. a miner is a fellow who ran a drill, and i rose to that imminent position some two or three months later. >> how many hours did you work a day there, sir? >> the regulation hours at that time was ten hours a day, six days a week. >> do you remember what you got?

after having finished that season, not having a job that's after i had graduated, i went into the minsdsat grass valley in california. being familiar with the mines from a previous work i had done for the geological survey. i sought a job and i thought my dib ma might be of importance, and i might be on the staff of some mine. but that diploma didn't seem to impress anybody and finally i got to a condition where i took a job yound ground in a mine and i worked five months or six. as a common miner and it was not a bad experience. >> i understand you to say, sir, that you took a job as a common mine centre. >> yeah, sure. >> what kind of a mine was it? >> it was a gold mine. i didn't even have the distinction of being a miner. i started by loading trucks. a miner is a fellow who ran a drill and i rose to that eminent position some two or three months later. >> how many hours did you work a day there, sir? >> the regulation hours at that time was ten hours a day, six days a week. >> do you remember what you got? how much wages you got? >> yeah, $2 a day. i think i got $2.25 after i was pro