Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-23
CAUSED BY GREAT SHUTDOWN.
Great Northern Railway Will Lay OF
Large Portion of their Freight
Crews.
ALSO BUTTE. ANACONDA & PACIFIC
Idle Miners Fill the Strcets--Their
Creditors Hurrying to Get Garnish.
mcnts Against Them.

Butte, Mont, oct 22.--By the general
shutdown Of the Amalgamated Copper
company properties last night. from 49,
GOO to 1900 men are directly thrown
out Of employment and others will be
Indirectly affected within a week. so
that the grand total VIII reach 10000
men In Montana and Wyoming. The
Great Northern viii lay on large por-
ton Of their freight crews heretofore
hauling ore from Butte TO the b. & NJ.
smelter at Great Falls The Butte. Ana.
conda Il Pacific railway win lay off all
freight crews between Butte and Ana
conda. In addition to these numerous
other enterprises, large and small,
which relied upon the Amangamated as
their chief customer win be Obliged to
curtaIl In Montana alone, approxlma-
tely one million dollars week or s4-
100000 month IS off the pay roll Of the
state.
Butte streets are filed today with
the 1000 miners thrown out last night,
clearinghouse keepers, store Keepers,
etc, whom the miners owe. beslege the
justice courts, seeking garnlshment or
ders The constabes cannot serve the
papers fast enough, the justice clerks
are working overtime filling them out.
President Scalon Of the Anaconda
Copper company, Is expected TO make a
statement to the Associated Press this
afternoon. So far there has been no
The actual number directly thrown
out Of employment In Butte are 65O0.
These include the men In the Boston a.
Montana mines, the Anaconda mines,
the syndicate group. the Butte q Bos-
ton mines, the PARROT group, the Co..
orado mines, the Colorado Shelter the
Nashoe group the Butte and Boston
mines, and the Switching crews ana
other employees Of the Butte. Anaconda
a Pacific railway, who have to do with
shipping ore from the Hill mines to
Anaconda and Great Fails.
At Anaconda the Amalgamted EN-.
ployos at the New Washoe shelters. at
the lime kilns, at the silica quarrlos.
at the brickyard and the foundry are
thrown out.
The closing Of the Boston & Montana
smelter at Great Falls will leave many
hundreds of men there out Of employ
ment. Then. too, there are the em-
ployes of the Blackfoot Milling COM
pany In the woods. and In the saWmill
at Bonner, the same class OF men work
ing for the Anaconda Copper Mining
company's lumber department which
centers in It's big mill at Hamilton.
probably the coal miners az Storrs thu
coal miners az Belt--all these go out
The company operates extensive coal
mines at Diamondville, Wyoming
While these will not be entirely shut
down, because they supply coal to the
trade as we'll as 10 the company the
output will be limited materially
The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific rail-
way win be able to dispense with prac-
tically an its freight crews because
there will be no ore TO transport TO
the Anaconda shelters. ore shipments
from Butte TO Anaconda have aggre-
gated about 5000 tons day.
EFFECT AT GREAT FALLS,
Great Falls. Mont, oct 23.-More
than 1900 men win be affected i'm this
vicinity By the order of the Amalga-
mated Copper company TO shut down
It's plants in Montana and Wyoming.
OF this number 800 are employed IN
the smelters Of the Boston q Montana
company here. a constituent company
zoo at Belt, where the coal mines OF
the Anaconda Copper Mining company
are, between 200 ana 800 railroad men,
including conductors, engineers, train
men, switChmen, etc, who handle the
ore traffic between here aud Butte and
elsewhere; and about 200 others em-
pioyed IN stone quarries, lumber camps
and In miscellaneous capacities, The
people Of Great Falls regard the out
look az extremely gloomy. The Boston
& Montana smelter here Is the largest
industrial plant IN this vicinity and
had a large payroll