The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-14
No Question But the Cnur d'Alene
Mine Owners viii Cease Ship
ping Friday.
The Railroads Think It Ia q Game
Of Bluff and Are Stand
ing Pat
An %Inrlnation That this Agreement With
Employees may Cut some Figure
News OF the Mines.

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This entire South Fork country IL dspend-
ont on one sole interest-minlng. When
that interest is dormant no other occnpa-
ticn is ready to give empioymont 70 our
people or traffic to the railroads; hence II
the mines shall all DO closed, our popula-
tion can not subsist here, and y large pro-
portion will be compelled to seek other
fields. The shipments of ore and conocn-
trates from the various camps will aRgre-
gate 800 tons daily. When all the producers
are shipping the rail rats to Omaha 70 $40
per ton, amounting to $500 daily. or Slo2.-
900 for thirty days. With this item droppsa
by reason of sus. ension OF work. the ton
mage of rail shipments INTO the country
will he reduced, not in the same proportion,
Int LARGELY. and the loss to the two railroad
commands in this item will no doubt reach
s1m.O0O montnly, a total loss to two com
panies for this littlo tract OF country OF
$a62, 900 every thirty DAYS.
1t may bs said that in closing the mines
Tie owners will suffer in loss 81 interest On
Investments and tho injury will revert on
the country. The producers number SIX
teen, five ut Wardner, six IN Canyon creek
two in Nine Mile and three at Mullan.
This loss will be scattered among 40 many
companies, and again among Individual
owners in the various companies, IL Wlll
not be felt so forcibly as with the railroads.
There can be little doubt that the shut
down will come, The ROADS Will doubtless
Wait to see If it is d bluff on the part OF the
Mine Owners association. 1t also an open,
secret that the mine owners have become
lust a little tired of the miners union.
,rhey have been worried a great deal the
past season by demands Of yailous natuies
by these unions and naturally prefer to
handle their ropertles on thelr own. plans.
One prominent mining man remarked q lew
DAYS since. that they made no objection
to paving S 5 80 per day to miners Of exper-
ience.' 1t any programme hrs eeen out
lined and agreed upon BY the Mine Owners
nssociutjon 1t has not been given to the
public. The manager of one of the large
CANYON creek properties stated to IHE
IMPROVEMENT correspondent last week that
no communications had passed between
the association and the central union. Inc
shut down at the Pootmnn was caused at
the time by ice in their hume.
At the You Like, on Chloride hill, neal
Mullan. a lower tunnel is being run, to
cross-cut, the lodge. at $50 feat below theil
old works. They expect to tap 1T at any
time, when they will raise to the upper
level. They will then have sufficient ore
on"nAntrotar Ono nf the most valuabl,
toa ,I af this sntira rarion. ~ the fact
astahi;sbod NV aavalonment in ALT h prom
;nant ,rnar.sra ~ tha oeuntry. that Or
bodies are stronger, ore OF better quallty
md, III most instances. increased in guam
titles, as depth is reached.
Eanip rrnr,n ia rnnnino a combination TIM
n 49, ~ s ~ i,na hstween the War Eagle AND
na,aa+ lao.t;nns Nh a larra and Intended
~ a ,,n,Iing tnnnel- n is in now isl
soat 80 vii cnt tba iadga at 3aO to 4DI
feet frnm tha starting noint. and Will b,
ahant s,os taa+ nalov fhsir ali W. la.
GIaranoa rnnn;nohnn hna shiun.d a car
$500 80 taLer frou sbaft md drifts. ia
80 = ~ aavalonnan "A tha Crow
D. tErrals Dsv.Ionmants nre imnrov
;nn.so noIna of the nror ertv
M + Sinclair and 1. i. Horn are run.
- cnn ~ 80 Onh;r hin on tho Dada,