The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28
THE SILVER TRUST.
It's Million Dollar Fund for Use on
Electlon Day
IN THREE DOUBTFUL STATES.
Mine Employees Assessed and
Forced to Contribute.
CASES or COERCION,
ofNilner. IN the En,rloy ofsllvrr Kings.
Wages Withheld and pnid Into the
Bryan Fnnd-Fnnd TO no sprn, In lit
diana, liiino!. and allchigan-JI,usr,
Forced TO Subscribe FOR tho Iilmeta list,
Organ OF the silver I.ragur.

h"'ceu 10 suDscribc Tor tho Iimetn list,
Organ OF the silver League.
a special dispatch from Salt Lake
City. Utah, to the New York World,
Dem.), gives the following particulars
OF the methods OF the silver trust In the
campaign, in addition to those already
published:
r. c. Chambers, manager OF the IA
nous Ontario silver mine, mas followed
the example of Mnfrat, Grant and n.y.
man, the sllver kings OF Colorado, and
Marcus DAILY, manager OF the great An
aconda mines OF Montana. He has rs.
scsScd all the miners In his employ for
the silver campaign fund. The ASSESS.
mcnt will swell the fund which the sll.
yer mine owners are 10 concentrate on
the states az Indiana. Illinois. and MIch.
gan election day. Nearly all the mine
owners think Bryan's election sure
MIR. Chambers Is vlcc president OF the
Bi.metallic League, chairman OF the sill
yer trust finance committee for Utah.
and owner OF the leading free silver or
Gan OF Salt Lake and manager of Shc
Ontario and Daily silver mines, OF Park
City.
Through the mine bosses Mr.. Cham.
bcrs notified every llborcr in the two
companies employ that thcy were RE
Qutstea'' 10 contribute Mt least one days
pay TO help elect free silver President.
Their wages range from s. 70 to 81 L
day. averaging 81.
They Must Also Buy. the Blmetriiia.
Until this assessment, the Utah silver
miners have never been forecd TO con-
tribute. The silver Kings have them
selves paid the expenses OF the prupa-
Idnda for n President. The only thing
hitherto required OF the day laborers IL
the mines has bcen to buy the Bimetall
lst, Il weekly organ OF the silver trust,
printed In Chicago. The superintendent
called thls subscription voluntary" on
tho part OF his employees. but =. recent
visit 10 the Ontario boarding house ie
ve3led the presence OF stacks OF un-
opened Bimetall!sts. each addressed to
an employc and never read This price
OF the Blmetallist Is 81 a year. There
are less than 5000 men employed at pres
ent In all the Utah mines. SO that the
contributions 10 the campalgu fund.- x
every man paid 81 this week and the
same next. would be $4,000. Some OF the
smaller silver mines, however, have as
sessed their men two days ply in 4
lump.
Many kicks were made and some Ia
bprerS did not even know that tlIey were
contributing until pAy day. They ac-
copied the Inevitable rather than lose
their places The Anchor mine assess-
ed al Its men last month. Then the
mine, shut down. and nearly all the men
who paid the assessment 20 hold their
work were laid of. The Silver King
farce OF seventy men. the DAILY West
eighty. and ithe Woodsides. thirty. all
contributed two days work, and three
out OF every five subscribed for the b.
metalllst. To say nothing OF the many
smaller mines In Park City, the miners
IN all OF which have been levied on, the
coal miners, whose business is cGntr0ll-
ed by the silver kings, have paid quite
5000 to the SilverLTrust doodle fund"
PROFITS OF Utah i'iuiocrn,s.
y table giving the dividends paid by
the principal silver mines OF Utah show
total of S5,,e6S,O0O.,
The enormous total does not by any
means represent a.ll the profits, 10. many
OF the companies are close corporations.
and their profits are not published. No
mention Is made Of the sid Jordan and
G1lena Mining Company. OK Bingham.
Utah. the greatest SIlvtr-lead producer
In Utah. a. F. Holden, manager Of the
mine, and son OF the owner, signed the
Merrill silver fat-frying" Circular. Prof.
Holden, 4 former college professor, and
now one Of the mlllloaairSs OF Clevc-
land. made his millions out OF the old
Jordan and Glieua. He Is one Of the
members OF the executive committee ct
the Democratic national committee,
managing the Bryan campaign.
The OnLarin Company and Its principal
st1ckholderS could alone afford 10 pay
million or Two to got, free coinage for
their product The mine had produced
3l,902.f4; ounces Of silver down To- jan
uary !. las.. according to the official re-
port OF the superintendent. But Super
iEtenient Chambers also stated IN his
last annual report concerning develop
ment progressing In n portion OF the on
tario property. that "this section OF
ground ought 10 add at lCa9: ten years
more to the He Of The mine, and indca-
tIons are that Il will produce we'll" (Rc-
port OF the Ontario Silver-N!nirg Com
pany from January /, 1885, to January !.
1896. page l0.)
This statement NJ Superintendent
Chambers Is highly Important. What
does Il mean 10 add al least ten years
more to the life OF the mine" In round
figures, not less than sj,000,t0O In profits,
and more likely $lo,000,00o.
Millions for tho silver Trust.
It has been estimated that free coin
age would have increased the profits OF
the Ontario Company by ut least slO,-
OOO 900 or 81 100000 In The past. What
they would amount TO in the future can
only b" guessed they are So enormous
The silver trust hns already forced two
silver purchase acts through Congress,
by which the government has lost $780,
O00.1G0 In sixteen years.
The Ontario mine cost originally only
a few thousand dollars, but improve
ments costing over sl,600,o0O have been
paid for out OF profits. or late the mine
has been holding back" It's silver for
higher prices.
This Is the mine OF which ". r.
Hearst Is vice president, No other mine
in the United States. except. perhaps,
the Anaconda copper mine (so-callcd),
will profit so enormously II the govern
ment Is ever forced to buy at 81 % an
ounce all the silver that can be mined.
Vice President Hearst Is. the owner OF
the New York Journal, the only paper
OF prominence in the east, supporting
Bryan and free silver.
WHERE THE SILVER MONEY" GOES,
large Expenditures In Indiana and III