Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-12-11
A JOYFUL DAY
Fer Butte and Anaconda Was
Heralded ON Saturday-Re-
sumption Of the Works.
Performance OF the Last Rites
Oyer the Remains Of Walter
Salter, An imposing Funeral.
HAGGIN's LAST ORDER.

Operations 10 be Resumed by the A naconda
Company.
A Butte correspondent Of the Inde-
pendent under date Of Dec. s says: The
situat on at Anaconda il brighter than
for some days. Your correspondent
met en- route this morning Foreman
Carroll, Of the Anaconda company.
He stated that work would begin at
once, supplies of coal aud ore being
rushed raE Eidiy to the smelter. OF the
employees less than fifty had taken
their time. Even these had not left
aud il they had their places could be
easily filed. The order closing the
works was cauesd by the strike of the
engineer on the Montana Union.
There was no ore at the smelter and
no coal aud the works could not run
without material and fuel.
Mr.. DAILY was non-committsl, but
left your correspondent to believe the
correctness of the statements Of Mr..
Carol. As a matter of fact the fires
were never drawn from the furnaces.
DAILY was in constant communication
with Haggin, who il IN New York.
Pending u settlement OF the railroad
strike the works had TO close down.
When matters were adjusted and the
company assured that no further in.
reference would result, the situation
was wired to Haggin and the orders to
resume came from him. The loss to
the company will be very serious. 1t
was intended to have the December
output the largest Of the year, but the
closing down seriously affected this.
The business men Of Anaconda feel
very jubilant over the orders to resun
and the feeling in Butte Is ssqually JOY
full. Business in Anaconda was seri
ously affected by the news that th,
works would be closed until May next
The merchants conversed with Say
trade has fallen OF greatly. 1t vii
take weeks and perhaps months to re
store the former feeling of confidenc,
and put business on the same standinl
as before the order to close came from
the east. There 10 no truth to the ru
NOR that Butte could give employment
to the men made idle were the Ana
conds smelter and mines to close. Th,
mines consist of the Anaconda and st
Lawrence, called the Anaconda mine
and the Chambers syndicate, composed
of several other properties. The ore al
the smelter was taken about half from
the Anaconda and Chambers syndi-
cate. The Anaconda has 1910 men
on the pay roll and, with their fami.
lies, this makes 8 200 directly depend
ent on the company. Add to this the
miners who take out the 400 tons OF
ore daily required, the men IN thelum
ber and wood camps, and the railroad
men who are needed to transport sup
plies, and it will be seen 5000 or ZOO
persons depend on the operations o
the Anaconda works and mines for ,
subsistence. The pay roll of the Cham
bers syndicate mine last month wa
Sl33, 900, at the Anaconda mine an,
works, 500, 900, other disbursement
bringing the amount expended
monthly up TO s25O,OO0. The with
drawsl Of this would most seriousl,
affect both Butte aud Anaconda. TIL
latter place is entirely dependent ol
the works and has no other means G
existence. The closing of the work
until May would kill the town, an
Butte would feel the shutdown Sc
verely. A general feeling Of ease pei
vades the communities where tw
days ago there was the most agonizinI
suspense.