Hoover Administration - Career
Career
Upon graduation from college in 1885, Hoover worked in a gold mine near Nevada City, California, pushing an ore cart below the ground on the night shift. The future president labored 10 hours a stretch, seven days a week, for the princely wage of two dollars a day. In 1896 he began work as an office boy for the prominent San Francisco mining firm of Louis Janin, but within a year he became the assistant manager of Janin's Steeple Rock Development Company, another mining company, in New Mexico. He was soon surveying mines and examining territories in Arizona, Nevada, and Wyoming.
In 1897, at age 23, Hoover was hired by the prominent British mining firm of Bewick, Moreing, to work at Coolgardie, a mining camp in the outback of Western Australia. There he lived a strenuous life, experiencing heat, dust storms, flies—even blood poisoning. He traveled close to five thousand miles, mostly by camel and horse. "Every man here...
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