The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-08
THE COEUR D'ALENE
Threats to Shut Down the Mines
Next Week.
Is 1T TO DEFY THE RAILROADS?
Or Break Up the Miners Union Both
Claims Made - Other Mining
Matters.

This place has had it's full share of snow
the past two weeks; scarcely day passes
that 1t does not continue to snow and about
two nights in the week it rains, followed
by chinook wlnd-and then more snow.
All varieties of climate except sunshine. 1t
is the finest place in the world to develop
a mild case of ia grippe into thorough
chronic form The town is quiet and the
miners and business men feel gloomy over
the report that has gone out that all the
mines of the Ceur d'Alene country would
smut down January Is. There is some
truth in this report as the mine owners
held meeting recently at Spokane Falls
In order to discuss the best methods
to pursue The trouble, the mine
owners claim, is on account of the
railroad companies threatening to raise the
shipping rate 81 per ton on all grades of
ores. This the mine owners do not propose
to stand and claim
THEY WILL SHUT DOWN
before they will submit. Should they shut
uoWn IL Will have paralyzing effect on the
miners and business men, as they have had
but few pay-days lately. There is a strong
miners union here and some of the mem
Ders seem to think the threatened shut
down Is for the purpose of breaking UP the
organization by driving out its members
and then cut wages down to So per day.
what truth there is in the above 1 am IN
able to say, but in my opinion it don't look
reasonable, as all the mines now being
worked are paying well and have large
Dodles OF ore in sight, and it would not paw
them to
ATTEMPT TO CUT WAGES
If so all good miners would leave. and inst
at present there are too few good miners in
Inc market. One good miner paid good.
lar wages Is OF more value 10 a company
IMAM one half-dozen of the cheap stragglers
VINO go around posing as miners with no
experience whatever, and too often in the
handling of explosives killing themselves
ana all who are unfortunate enough to be
near them. 1t was we'll said by a prom1
nent mining man in Montana that the
reason so many accidents happened under
ground and ID shafts was through the ip
norence OF men who knew nothing about
mining.
THE MINES AND MILLS
mere are running as smoothly as usual, and
When the litigation which has haupered
the progress of this camp so long shall
nave been settled, the camp will have an
output OF ore second to none
Next summer will probably see better
times in the Cnur d. Alene. The sale of
the Morning mine in Mullan will place that
property among the producers of the coun-
try, and it will be bright day for MuIlan
when the Morning looms up Bgain.
by the way Wallace is progressing it is
the central city of the country II is the
jumping of point for the gentleman, tough,
DUDE, sport and prize fighter. The town
mas us sporting club end its fake prize
lights. 1t also has bachelor clue whose
members aim at matrimony, which is to
hnally terminate the existence of the club
In the newspaper field Wallace is ahead
with new publication called the Ceur d.
Alene Barbarian. 1t is a newsy sheet to
be gotten up by barbarian, and will be
racy reading for the average Ceur d.
Alene savage. Xxx
WARDNER, Idaho, Jan. 5.