Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-12
PRESTO CHANGE !.
The Anaconda Resumes Operations sud-
denly without Explanation.

denly Without Explanation.
Saturday morning the cheerful news wa
spread round town that orders had beel
received from headquarters of the Anacon
da Company to resume operations. Th'
relief among all classes was general. TIL,
crowds on the str. cts wore a different ali
from that of the day before as though q
great load had been lifted from every one's
mind. Superintendent Carroll gave orders
te the miners employed by the company on
its system of mines in Butte to resume
work on the night shift.
The cause Of the sudden change OF front
was as great a surprise as the news OF the
shut down had been. Some people said
they never believed that the stoppage was
permanent, and hat the announcement
had been allowed to go put for the pur-
pose OF bringing the engineers of the Nom
tana Union to terms. They disbelieyed
the assertion that the furnaces at the
smelter had been aliG @ed TO become chilled
and had been confident that when the peo-
pie at headquarters learned it was over the
order to resume would be given.
One gentleman. Who's acquaintance with
~ hpta bhS q Lao
opinion to respect, said the company had
too much capital invested to allow it TO
remain idle ct present. II know" said he,
that the company can get S250,o00 q
month from the French syndicate to re.
main idle, but they can make at least twice
that by continuing work. The town oil
Anaconda is owned by tine company in
which a great deal of money has been ex-
pended, and, besides. it is Marcus Days
pride. ris ambition is 10 have it u town
of 10000 people. 1t has grown
very fast and 8 shut dow OF
the works would mean simply ruin TO it.
Ire scare Of two days has no doubt given
it q SETBACK. but to stop the smeiser for
five months would drive all the inhabitants
away from there and giveit a blow it could
never recover from. The company has
over $50, 009,G 600 invested here and at An
aconda, and as long as copper is at its
present figure the works will never shut
down.
What contract has it with the French
syndicate?'
81 believe the syndicate takes all it pro-
| duces at IL cents, and pays it hall the diff
ference in addition between that and the
market price,"
docs it not nave to furnish a certain
quota?"
~"Suppose it does, the syndicate has to
take all it produces besides at the market
price, or else the market would go down.
There is no telling how long the syndicate
can carry copper ut the present figures,
but us long as it does the Anaconda Com
pany will keep It's mines and smelter run
ming, You may depend IN it,"
Parties who came up from Anaconda
yesterday said that the people there wore
d different aspect from that OF the day be.
fore. Most OF the smokestacks showed
evidences of having fired up again in the
morning and during the day. About noon
it was reported that Marcus Daily had re.
ceiyed another dispatch ordering him to
continue the suspension OF the work at the
upper works until further orders, but to
resume work at the lower works. Ore and
coal began to arrive again at the works,
but there remain a large number OF Cars
there u~nloaded.
Marcus Daily was seen on the streets oil
Anaconda yesterday wearing a troubled
look on his face and was exceedingly ebay
OF information to those VINO aecosted him.
1t is believed by those in position to know
| that he was as much surprised as any at
the order to esum yesterday morning.
| All attempts to get any information from
him we're met by more Or less curt replies
! and it vas evident to the least practiced
reporter that Mr.. DAILY was in what is
m~ysteriously known as d frame OF mind"
Rumors were current at Anaconda that
some OF the men at the smeiter had been
notified to resume work. The yards are
hermeticaily closed against any intrusion
except by those on business for the com.
pany. No outsider can get past the guards
on any consideration. 1t is certain that
work at the smelter las not been resumed
in full, but the cause of this, or whether
work will he resumed over all the. works,
AMI, if 50, when, are the questions puzzling
every one down at Anaconda. just as they
will many in Butte.