The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-29
CGuR DALENE MINES.
Miners May Make a Proposition to
the Owners for a Con-
ference.
Hope Expressed That the Differ
ences Will Be Compro-
missed Soon.

II tho Wage Question Is Not Settled 0the,
Mines VIII Close Down April l.
g 5- Rich Strikes Reported. -..
WARDNER, Idaho, March 2S.-[Special. -
The proposition of the Mine Owners as
ISOLATION to resume work is met by q re
fusal by the Miners union. The formsI
offer to pay miners $3.50 per day, shoveler'
and car mon in tunnel mines, IS, the lat
ter also to be paid $3.50 in mines worked
by shafts. The position of the union Is
antaRonistic to a reduction Of wages in any
respect, and there ID consequently no en-
couragement that work at any except those
worked by shafts will be started in the
near future. The only ones worked ny
shafts are the Poorman and Tiger al
Burke, all others being worked by tunnels.
It is hoped that The men and mine
nav compromise their differences at an
early day. It is proposed by individual
members of the union that they (the
u%nions) enter into IN agreement with the
Mine Owners association, providing that
they shall work at prices to be agreed upoh'
probably some cut from the old scale lS3.5O
for all underground mem, until such time
"a the market values of lead II silver
shall advance to such figures as may be
agreed upon. Suoh an arrangements would
be a graceful concession on the part or me
union, and would meet the present com
plant made by the mine owners, that the
&c $hoSo yNatalc Hn not war
rant the payment Of the old scale OF wages.
No such arrangement has been agreed
upon, but several or all the unions
hold their weekly meetings on Saturday
evenings, and it is anticipated that such
questions may be discussed. The union
men complain that after the troubles lass
GUNNER, when their differences were ad-
iussed, an Agreements was made with the
mine owners that the scale of wages and
other conditions agreed upon. should be 10
force until further notice; that now the
owners, without consulting the unions,
have violated that agreement in announc-
ing the out of 50 per cent. per day Tor the
uuskilled labor, and that no communion
tions have been made by the owners to the
unions. None have passed between she
unions and owners to the present time.
It il generally believed that nothing Will
ba done ut the Bunker Hill & Sullivan COM
panies' works. They have declined to &C.
oept the tramway, and without that they
cannot move their ore from NINE 10 con
centration. Supplemented to this, their lit
ipation with the Mammoth locatlon may
make them Indifferent about work ct pres
ent, After the close in January last, they
awarded q contract for running a tunnel
from a point several hundred feet IN, on
the Reed tunnel, running west on the foot
wall. to tap the Bunker Hill ground. This
ID nearly finished. The latter ground has
been worked heretofore BY unnels at
various points Of elevation from the cresk
and base Of the mountains.
Ths Last Chance People are also indiffer.
ont about work until the Sweeney TUNE
cuts the ledge. This has been going aheac
AZ fast Is three shifts daily could drive it.
It ia the longest unnei in this country and
is seven feet high by twelve wide inside o.
timbers. lighted by electricity, and thai
power was used at first for drills, but they
have been abandoned until changes can bs
Pc footed promised by the manutacturers
Air drills are now being used. Inc boys
are making fifteen feet per day, and expect
to tap the ledge in about one hundred feet'
John Presley, lately foreman OF the mine,
is running it by contract.
At the Morning mine at Mullan a site has
boon selected for a new commentator Of 4Ol
tons capacity, to be erected soon near the
old one. Engineers are runnlng lines Tor O
railroad from the Concentrator to the rail-
road tracks in the South Fork bottom, a
distance of about three and one-half miles.
The vo k will be commenced and pushed
on the construction of the road, so soon as
the engineers can perfect their ptohle.
The Sierra Nevads company has beer
running while the mines producing ooncen,
u... I.-,. loo- ,J1o Tnotpu II hirE
grade ore, and goes to the smslters in its
virgin state. Their controversy with the
railroad companies being on rates on con-
centrates, it did not effect them; but since
the question of wages has been raised, it is
announced that they will close April first,
and it will be no April fool either.
civilian Yetter, Thomas jenkins and
locations, all adjoining each other. on
upper Pine creek the past winter, and re-
port thirty-hve feet of good concentrating
galena. The boys are enjoying the pleas
ing sensation of good luck IN having found
a mine. The locations are the American,
Blue Stone and Highland. Ihe have run
in eighty-fvs feet on tho foot wall on the
Blue stone location, exposing ths ore re-
ferred to above. They will now start a drift
100 feet III, the mountain side TO develop it
at that paint, As assay of ore selected aa
an average shows lead sixty-slx per cent.
silver twenty-seven ounces and $3.50 per
ton gold. This ledge il a strong ono, pitch
ing toward the south, having oharactsris-
tics similar to the Great Northern ledge
here, and while the distance is too great to
predicate it's connection, it ia not lmproba-
bio that it is a great ledge. Michael
C%heynne, John West and Charles Raspberry
are also developing a location two miles
east o. the ones above. They have recently
exposed two and ons-half feet Of good con.
centrating ore. and will continue work in
definitely.
Olsen d Mortensen are working three
promising locations On Lost Gulch. atribu-
tary of Pine Creek on the west. They dis
covered three feet of good galena ore on
the surface. They sunk thirty feet at dis
eovery, tbs ledge increasing in width.
They also started & tunnel down the hill, to
crosscut She ledge at II depth of $50 feet.
They have already made 200 feet, and e1-
pect to cut the ledge 20 feet ahead.
The Idaho Anthony Mining company
on Pine Greek have put in n hoist and
pump of good capacity and sinking will be
continued 100 fest down.
Manager Y. M. Clement, of tbs B. Fl, & 8,
mine, has resigned and Foreman Jenkins
has accepted a position az superintendent
of a mine in southern Utah.
Another Iron Mountain Dividend.
The Iron Mountain company have de-
Shared a dividend OF three cents per share
or a total dividend of Sl5,O 900, payable
March 3lst. Transfer books will close or