, 1888-05-22
THE MINE MEN.
The Mathieson Agent and Smelter
Superintendent Here.
Sunrise Mine Looks Well and the
SmeIter in Fine Trim.
The First Shipment of Bullion
Loaded at Wend0Ver.

Geo. Thomson, agent for the Mathie
sons, the great English capitalists who
recently invested in Laramie county cop
per mines and John Whyte, superintend
emit of the ~syndicate's smelter at Fair
bank, arrived from the mines last evening
and are quartered at the Inter Ocean.
The gentlemen accorded a LEADER rep.
resentative who called upon them a pleas
n reception and conversed quite candid
ly of the work under way and operations
contemplated at the mines.
The mine looks well and its appearance
becomes more encouraging as a greater
depth is attained. Although an old mine
the Sunrise is little more than a prospect
even now. The output IS large and will
be greatly increased at once. The absence
of competent miners has been a hayrass
ing annoyance. Superintendent Whyte
has just engaged twenty miners by wire
and the new men will reach Hartville in a
few days. The company has exhibited
its liberality and shows Its broad guage
policy by voluntarily increasing the wages
of the mine operatives. The unskilled
laborers employed about the camp were
engaged in this section and have given
entire satisfaction.
we are obtaining much better results
from the smelter han had been antici-
pated," said Mr.. Thomson. That no
mishaps have occurred since the firing of
the furnace may be noted as rather fortu-
nate. 1t is doubtless due in a great meas
ure to careful management.
In reply to a question, Mr.. Thomson
stated that as yet the only mine in which
the company had become interested was
the Sunrise. Negotiatiations are now
pending which may result in the purchase
or leasing of other claims, and it is not
improbable that the Mathieson smelter
will treat other ores than their own. The
syndicate, through its agents, has received
offers for several claims, Ibut the prices
demanded were altogether too extrava-
giant. Mining men rarely purchase any
thing out of sight.
1t will please all to learn that the first
shipment of bullion has been placed on
the cars at Wendover. Forty tons of
almost pure copper were loaded there
yesterday and will reach this city to-mor-
row. Two cars contain the first consign-
ment.
Tha ont1nn1y fNr fha n. .frratfan nj a
spur from the terminus of the Cheyenne
& Northern to the mines is better than
ever. The copper company still offers
every inducement within its power to fur
Their the enterprise and heartily hopes that
the railway officials will see the advisable
ity of providing them with proper facili-
ties and allowing the placing of the smelter
at Cheyenne.
Chief Engineer Bogue and @. X. Ban
mister left for the north yesterday morn
ing. The former will view the proposed
routes from Wendover to the mines. The
advent of Mr.. Bogue upon the scene is
conclusive evidence that the Union Pacific
people are becoming deeply interested in
the matter.
Messrs. Thomson and Whyte occupied
berths in a sleeper attached to the Santa
Fe train which was in the explosion at
Fountain, Col last Monday. They had
a very narrow escape; saving themselves
by flight. The gentlemen give very
graphic accounts of the frIghtful catastro-
phe.