The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-30
THE STRIKE AT HORR
Treasurer Richardson Tells Just What
There Was to II.
HENRY GASSERT'S NEW DEAL
Red Lodge Miners Are Working
Directly Under the Carbon
County Court House 1900
Feet Down-MinIng Notes.

Special Correspondence of the standard.
Livingston. Nov. 2S.-Treasurer l. p.
Richardson and Bookkeeper L. s. Tay-
Tor OF the Montana Coal & Coke COM
pany at Horn came down from that
camp Wednesday and spent Thanks
giving in the city. Anent the recent
strike at Horr Mr.. Richardson said:
THE miners had no grievance to JUS
tify walk-out. being well paid and
able to make at the prevailing wages
of rs cents per ton. all the way from
50 to "a per day.
The strike" said he, was the re-
suit OF continual agitation by some of
the new employees whom the company
gave work al the time of the Cokedale
shutdown. These agitators only sue
ceeded in keeping the men out four
days. when a meeting was held and
the strike was declared off by a vote
OF three to one. There could have
been but one outcome to the strike If
1t had been persisted in, and the men
realized this before they had been out
"a hours. Manager Conrad informed
the strikers at the outset that the
company would not accede to their de-
mands. and II the strike had lasted
three days longer the men couldn't
have returned to work IL they had
wanted to. for the whole works would
have been closed down until spring
The company had decided on taking
this action and but for the timely ter
mination of the strike. Horr would to-
day be a pretty dead camp.
Fortunately, however, for all con-
cerned this was averted by the more
conservative element among the strik-
ers asserting itself and everything is
now running along swimmingly at the
camp. On the first day of the strike.
which was the company's regular
monthly pay day, we paid out nearly
$4,000 In cash to the miners in wages,
but in less than four days afterward
I'll wager there wasn't $500 left of
this sum among the entire force. The
strikers blew their months wages in
as fast as they could and had a high
old time while 1t lasted; the strike de-
veloped into one grand, big drunk
that was simply all there was to II.
The work of constructing the SO adj
ditional coke ovens" continued Mr..
Richardson. SIS going on apace. Half
of the number have already been COM
pleted and il Of them were fired up
a few days ago. OF the other 25 ovens,
IA of them are UP to the base line and
the others are up to the construction
line. If the weather continues good
for 10 days longer the entire work will
be completed by that time. This will
give the company 102 ovens and fur
nish employment for a largely increas-
ed force"
Harry Gassert. the mining magnate
and Montana pioneer, was down from |
Cinnabar the other day en- route to
Butte for the purpose of negotiating |
a s125,0O0 mining deal. the property in |
volved being in the New World mining |
district near Cooke City. Mr.. Gassert |
is rustler from the head of the gulch |
and is confident that the deal now on |
the tapis will be consummated before |
long. The gentleman is well known |
in Butte. where. 10 years ago, he sold |
the Blue Bird mine for 100000. He was
in an unusual pleasant frame of mind |
while in the city the past week, and |
when asked IL he had struck 1t rich, |
replied: We'll. 1 should say so-have
I'm pretty nearly co years
old. but / don't take a back seat for
any of you young fellows; come on,
boys. and let's drink to the kids
111s-pound girl for an
old MANI"
Charles Bowers has purchased a
steam hoist and pump for his coal
mine three miles west of this city, and
expects the machinery to arrive from
Butte in week or so. He proposes to
put a force of men to work sinking the
incline shaft 300 feet. 1t is now down
40 feet in a large body of excellent
coal.
Judge Frank Henry. who returned
the other day from holding a term of
district court at Red Lodge, reports
that coal camp in a prosperous condi-
ton and says that the Rocky Fork
company is producing coal at the rate
Of 1000 tons per day. The mines are
right under the new townsite of Red
Lodge and miners are at work 200
feet directly beneath the Carbon coun-
ty court house. The judge said that
sitting In the court room the blasts
could be distinctly heard and felt.
Miss Mabel Mortimer has completed
her term of school on the upper yell
owstone and returned TO her home in
his city.
George Lind, representing the Helena
Weekly Transcript, was in the city the !
past week on his return from a sue
sessful soliciting trip to he eastern
part OF the state.
w. B. Benham. the Bozeman gun
ninth. has decided to open a branch
store in this city.