The interest was at fever heat, and the miners wagered freely on the outcome.
The mine-owners replied by importing strike-breakers, or blacklegs as the miners called them.
Street fights were of frequent occurrence, and on one occasion two miners started firing at each other in close proximity to where I was standing.
There's lots of gold left in the sides of these hills yet, even after the miners have been over the dirt.
Meanwhile, the Government had purchased from the Blackfoot Indians these rough mountains in which many miners professed to believe great mineral wealth was hidden.
A good many men had been killed, miners and trappers and freighters; and a lot of horses had been run off.
The miners looked upon him as a brave, good man, just a little daft.
He was a candidate for supervisor, and the good-natured miners elected him triumphantly.
Malone, Lockley, and Evans, had thus disposed of their discarded apparel, and Drury Bond and one or two other miners had also added to the treasures that caught the eye of the inquisitive Digger.
The miners called him Jack White, not knowing any other name for him.
Marshall made one of his grandest speeches, and at the close the delighted miners bore him in triumph from the rostrum.
Beyond this we came to a spot where a number of miners were at work in various places and positions.
I afterwards found that, although this man and his brother were exceptions, the miners generally had very large families.
Miners descending to work," said my guide, as we listened.
It was very rich in copper ore, and the minersworked at the roof of it so vigorously, that they began to fear it would give way.
All the forenoon the miners employ their time in boring and charging the blast-holes.
When we paused for a minute to rest, it felt as if the silence of the tomb itself had surrounded us--for not the faintest echo reached us from the world above, and the minersat work below us were still far down out of ear-shot.
In ten days the moat was dry, two bridges made, and the miners engaged on the walls.
Withdrawing his cavalry from its perilous position before the town, he managed to obtain fifty miners from the neighbouring collieries.
They are using dynamite in the tunnel, and after the noon blasts one of the minerswent in before the deadly gas had been properly "ventilated" out.
Roughly, yes; they were Jim's kind--miners or prospectors.
Over at the other side of the creek, in amongst the ranges, there is still plenty of fair yielding quartz, which is being got out of mother earth; and the miners consider that they have very fair prospects before them.
The most painful incident of all occurred at Ballarat, where the miners were at work on one of the claims, when a swollen dam burst its banks and suddenly flooded the workings.
I know many men, of good family and education, still working as common miners in this neighbourhood.
The minersare attended by all manner of straggling followers, like the sutlers following a camp.
Some few claims are doing well in new offshoots of the lead, and the miners are vigorously following it up.
Not far off you can see jets of white steam coming up from behind the high white mounds on the new lead, showing that miners are still actually at work in the neighbourhood; nor are they working without hope.
Those who were working on the top of the shaft fled; but down below, ten of the miners were at work at a high level, in drives many feet above the bottom of the claim.
I know one young man, formerly a medical student in England, digging for weekly wages, hired by a company of miners at 2l.
The little miners excavate with their forefeet, which are strongly built and furnished with a fringe of stiff bristles; they work with wonderful rapidity, and the sand thrown out beneath their bodies issues in continuous streams.
A long, deeply laden canoe withminers from the interior provinces passed us here.
In the case of the leaf-miners and leaf-tiers, little difficulty is experienced in rearing the imagoes.
The miners are easily noticed by the discolored spots on the leaves or the wavy, pale, or brown lines marking their burrows.
A moment later the miners began to pile in for school, whooping and yelling, their feet covered with snow.
And that his protest met with instantaneous approval was shown by the way the miners shifted uneasily in their seats and shouted threateningly: "Git!
The minerswith the prisoner in their midst stood stock-still.
Presently the miners began to move away and Trinidad, picking up a chip which he espied under a bench, put it on his shoulder and stood in the centre of the room, thereby indirectly challenging the new pupil to a scrimmage.
Nevertheless, it was surprising what a knack his figure had of appearing before her at various times of the day and night, when she never failed to compare him with the miners in the camp, and, needless to say, unflatteringly to them.
Grouped together on one side of the wall were twelve buck horns, and these served as a sort of rack for the miners to hang their hats and coats during the school session.
When and where was there ever such a fine fellowship--transforming as it unquestionably did an ordinary saloon into a veritable haven of good cheer for miners weary after a long and often discouraging day in the gulches?
And notwithstanding, the miners were coming through the door for him and stood waiting, torches in hand, he contrived to finish: "Antonio awaits for it.
One moment," said the prisoner as the miners started to go out; and, strange to relate, the Sheriff ordered the men to halt.
All that they knew of the place was that the miners of Cloudy Mountain Camp were said to keep a large amount of placer gold there; all that he had done was to acquaint himself with the best means of getting it.
The evenings seemed longer than formerly; the conversation of the miners less interesting.
The miners liked Asa, though he joined little in their merry-making, and got the name of being miserly.
Did the miners like Jim, she asked--what did they say, and what did Sir Charles say?
Ten of us should go with him--ten of the huskiest miners mounted upon the stanchest bronchoes the camp could supply.
When the miners made a slight show of resistance the assailant called to his comrades in the bush to fire upon the first man who showed fight; this threat induced a wise resignation to the inevitable.
They, no doubt, brought with them their slaves, including miners and seamen, drawn from various countries where they had been purchased or abducted.
The reference to "slaves" is of special interest because the lot of the working miners was in ancient days an extremely arduous one.
Reference has been made to the traces left by ancient miners in Egypt where no gold is now found.
The truth is that the strategic position of the miners in regard to wages questions is by no means strong.
We may thus express the above conclusions by saying that the demand for sewing-cotton is highly inelastic, and that the demand for coal miners is more elastic than that for steel smelters.
There was a sound of running feet and the next moment a gang of miners rushed at the two men and tied their hands.
At Langley's command, the miners dragged the two rascals to a stone shed.
A party of miners had crossed the Chilkoot trail and were on a "prospecting tour" down the river and lakes.
It appears, however, that miners and Indians, unless traveling in numbers, or especially well armed, give them as wide a berth as they conveniently can.
Such was the beginning of the great Klondike gold craze, which has seized thousands of miners and speculators, a great proportion of whom will be drawn into that region in the course of the year.
Therefore the miners must remain working but part time as now, or fewerminers must work more days, or market must be found for more coal and thus all the miners given a longer year.
There are too many mines to keep all the miners employed all of the time or to give them a reasonable year's work.
It did not take many hours after it was realized that the coal miners were in earnest for the American imagination to conceive what might be the state of the country in perhaps another 30 days.
We therefore must have a longer miners' year and fewer miners or a longer miners' year and additional markets.
We have none too many mines or too many miners to supply our need if the mines are operated as at present.
If we worked all of our miners in all of our mines a reasonable year, we would have a great overproduction.
With the full demand met by men working two-thirds or less of the time in the year there can not be a longer year given to all the miners without more demand for coal.
The majority of the miners on the Comstock in the first days of its activity lived in tents and dug-outs called "holes in the wall.
The women were young, and after they had an opportunity to wash their faces, looked more attractive: particularly to the miners who had been deprived of female society for several months and had accumulated some money and good will.
He kem hyar all shot up, with the miners an' mounting boys hot foot arter him--an' we done what we could fur him.
Montana has no market except among the mining population, and the miners are scattered over a vast region.
The minersare a hardy set of men, rough, uncouth, but enterprising.
We find that the miners at work on the western slope have cut a canal through the pass, and have turned the waters of the Missouri into the Columbia.
Cornish gold diggers of Bendigo and Ballarat rivalled the cordial welcome of the Welsh coal-miners of Westport and Greymouth.
Every heap of slack and every railway truck, as the Prince's train went by, had upon it a contingent of miners who cheered in a way to warm the coldest heart.
The honest miners found that their sheriff was the leader of the outlaws!
All the towns to the westward were now abandoned, and the miners left Florence as madly as they had rushed to it from Oro Fino and Elk City.
The miners had already tired of the semi-military phase of their government, and had met and adopted a state constitution.
In ten days the gulch was staked out for twelve miles, and the cabins of the miners were occupied for all of that distance, and scattered over a long, low flat, whose vegetation was quickly swept away.
They had come out for an increase in wages, and whilst it was recognized that they had been beaten and forced to go back to work suffering wholesale reductions, yet a newer perspective was beginning to appear to the miners of Scotland.
We have worked for it, and the miners now are looking for something tangible.
The Prime Minister's speech was a masterly plea for compromise; but through it all, it seemed as if he was laying the blame upon the miners for the critical stage which had been reached.
The Miners' Union had been linked up into national organizations; and a consolidating influence was at work molding the workers generally, and the miners particularly, imbuing them with a newer hope, a greater enthusiasm and a wider vision.
The previous year had seen the English miners beaten after a protracted struggle.
Hints had been appearing from time to time in the newspapers that matters were not altogether as the miners thought they were.
You and others of us have been teaching the miners to work towards the day when a standard of ease and comfort will be assured to all.
Arrived at the pit-head, they found a number of miners there squatting on their "hunkers," waiting the time for descending the shaft.
I hear that he's gotten as muckle as tippence on the ton to some o' the miners who ha'e joined.
The miners were united as they had never been before and the whole of the British miners were determined to use their organization to enforce their demands.
He has done great wark doon in the west country, an' he is weel fitted and able to be the spokesman for the miners o' Scotlan'.
My people have been miners for generations, and I myself became a miner at the age of twelve.
Men toiled night and day, working as only miners fighting for life can work, risking life among the continually falling débris to recover all that remained of their comrades.
The award of the latter body, which fixed the wages of miners at 9s.
A shaft had been sunk to a depth of two hundred feet, at which level water had been struck, and the miners were busily at work.
One of the taverns is named "The North American" with a proprietor of our own nationality but its business is mostly bar trade, catering to the incoming and outgoing trade of the miners at El Teniente Mine.
During the eighteenth century it was the center of the placer district and the headquarters of the miners who equipped themselves here for their trips to the remote parts of Brazil and what is now Bolivia.
He had installed an ore crusher on his place which he rented to miners on the percentage system.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
