The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-23
HAMMOND. CLEMENT. BROWN
Three oeur d'AIeners who Are Now Goa
spicuo us In the Transvsai.


Spokane Spol1esman-Review: Spo-
kane friends of John Hays Hammond
and Victor NJ. Clement are greatly
alarmed for their safety. Mr. Clement
was formerly manager of the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan mine ait Wardner. He
went to South Africa shortly after Mr.
Hammond and assumed charge of the
Primrose mine.
Barbarian Brown is also at johann
nesburg, and some of his friends here
fear that he, too. has gotten into trou-
Bile. Others say, though, that "Barbar-
IAN is quite smooth enough to keep
out of difficulty and look out for No. l
seven days in the week. This belief is
borne out by a speech Brownie" made
to a masS-meeting of miners some time
ago. The last number of the Mining
and Engineering Journal refers to this
speech, and says that Brown Is CON
suhtfng engineer to one of the most i'm
portant syndicates in South Africa"
In thus addressing a meeting of 1900
miners, Brown said:
Il do not love this countrys govern
ment-not at ALL Within three days of
my arrival here l was arrested and
fined 81 shillings for laughing at a po-
hceman This government has not
strictly followed the true lines of repub-
ncanfsm. 1t has. constituted itself what
l shall term a select monarchy, and in
ana reorganization; but there Is one
thing to consider: 1t is a new country
and a new government. 1t never had
my sympathy, but your instincts OF
common fairness will direct you TO al
low 1t rs new country. and the WAYS
OF new countries are not infallable"
Mr.. Brown then pointed out to the
men that by joining such a movement
they laid themselves open to being
made tools of monopolists and reducing
the Rand district to the condition of
Kimberley, where individual enterprise
was crushed out and wages regulated
by the one-man power of the De Beers
syndicate.
Brown acquired the name of Bar
barian," from a weekly paper of that
title which he published for some time
at Wardner. The Barbarian attacked
the miners union at time when thar
organization was all-powerful In the
Occur d'Alenes and Brownie" took the
advice of his friends, and came away
from there. He never returned. Here
in Spokane he played a brilliant en-
gagement as one of the founders of the
Outburst, a weekly paper which, at
one time, attained considerable promi-
hence.
Spokane Spokesman-Revie There
were 10 cars of concentrates shipped
last week from the Morning mine.
a splendid strike was made last week
N me Margaret lode, on East Eagle
creek, five miles from Murray, says the
Sun. The ledge is two feet wide and
one foot of this is half sulphurets. like
the Daddy quartz. and the best shipped
by the Golden Chest. 1t is the most
valuabAe strike ever made on East
E9gle.
The Miner reports that at Burke the
Consolidated Tiger and Poorman is
working about 125 men and running the
Tiger mill on two shifts. The shaft is
now below the 1,100-fOot level TIE
Standard tunnel is now in $40 feet The
alterations of the Standard mill are
now in progress. 1t Is thought that
the Standard will resume work about
March l. The Gem shaft is now down
$40 feet. The work OF cutting out a
station and drifting viii consume sever
al weeks yet. when men Will oe put on
and the Gem Will begin producing
again. Work AT the Morning Is pro-
crossing satisfactorily. The Hunter will
probably star, up soon after Feb. J. Al
Wardner the Bunker Hill and Last
Chance are pursuing the even tenor Of
their way. sending out daily large
quantities of crude ore and concen-
rr-aseS