The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-03
ALoNa STRIFE ENDED.
Hooking Valley Miners Heturning to wor
In Small Groups,


In Small Groups.
NRLsoSEILLE, o., Jan. 2.-The past twen-
ty-iour hours have not been productive Of
important mining news. The gains that
will be made in the working forces of
home miners will be accomplished by
email daily additions. 1t is possible that
the miners as a body may never take ac-
ton with view to begin work. Arumor
has been started among the miners that
arrangements would be made to furnish
all with employment at good wages in an
other locality, where new mines are said
to be opening, in case the strike was COM
pletely lost and employment here became
impossible. The name Of the new coal
field is not given, but the miners arc made
to believe that the whole arrangement is a
secret scheme gotten up for theft special
benefit. They are further told that money
will be furnished them to move their
goods and families, and that not a single
one ought to be anxious about hisfuture.
Late last evening arumor was circulated
that the miners employed by W.P Rend
would mine coal for 80 cents per ton il the
miners in this locality attempted to work
at so cents. No attention was paid to this,
talk, as it is a well known fact that coal
miners are not anxious to work for amuse.
ment or for the pleasure OF someone else.
The Nelsonyille lNetrs to-day prints the
following on the present situation: "Last
Monday witnessed the first break in the
strike OF any consequence. The men have
been dropping IL slowly for month past.
but no considerable number went in until
Monday. @. L. PoSton 4 Co. opened their
mine on that date and invited the old
miners to go in or stay out ever after,
when sixteen OF them took their picks and
shoyels and returned to work. Others
went to work in Brooks and johnson
Bros. and Patterson's mines. tits difficult
To learn the exact number, but there were
forty or fifty men altogether. With this
number OF experienced miners at work,
the output OF coal will be almost equal
to the demaud, and this virtually
ends the strike, though there are
many who have not given up tho fight
yet, and perhaps never will. There Is
quite diversity Of opinion in regard to
the effect OF the reduction upon trade.
Some claim that business will never be as
good again in the Valley as in the past,
while others claim that the resumption of
work will create boom, as all the mines,
in the Valley will be enabled to start up,
together with one or two OF the furnaces,
now that the price Of mining has been re-
dueed to q legitimate competitive basis.
Time alone will prove the correctness Of
one or the other OF these theories. II
steady work is given the miners, and the
furnaces start up, together with the Stand
ard Coal and Iron Company, We cannot
see any reason to doubt that there will be
as much money in circulation as before
the strike. II is true the miners will not
make as much per day as before, but there
will be more men employed, and conse-
uuently more men to spend money. We
are passing through season of idleness
and depression all over the country, and
the result OF the strike was inevitable.
After the lapse OF the first four months OF
the strike the fight was hopeless, but SO
ers were 10th to give up, and rather than
submit eked out q kind Of miserable exis-
tence, subjecting themselves and families
10 great privations in order to subsist
upon the meager supplies dealt out to
them by the Relief Committee. Both the
miners and operators have sustained in
calculable losses, extending far into the
rSillions, TO say nothing OF the losses OF
private individuals in the way Of the fall
ing off in trade and general depression in
business that has hovered in and about the
Valley for the past half year. There Is
hardly family here that has not been
made TO feel the effects OF the dull
season. The churches have been unable
10 keep UP the salaries Of their ministers,
the storekeepers 10 employ their usual
dnota OF clerks, and man and maid servant
have been dispensed with in more than
one household. The effects Of the strike
will remain with us long after the contest
Is over. It will take at least year for
property to attain its former price and
business TO regain its usual activity. Thus
ends one Of the longest strikes ever wit
messed in this country.
The Syndicate Is making preparations
TO begin operations at the Troy mines, in
New ST aitsyille. Additional guards were
taken TO that place yesterday and the new
miners will arrive there soon. Joseph
Hardy, miner, whose agcis 10S years
and who mined coal until stopped by his
son and grandson some three years ago,
was removed to the County lntirmary.
BE Is native Of England.
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