The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-10-23
AMALGAMhTED OFFICIALS SAY IT
WILL BE AT LEAST TWELVE
THOUSAND MEN.
REALLY MANY MORE ARE
TO BE AFFECTED SOON
Every Section Of This State viii Suffer,
the Rancher Among the Rest, and
as Far as Wyoming the Shut
down Win Be Telling.

How many men will be thrown out OF
employment by the shut down order last
night That is bard question to an
swcr Officials OF the Amalgamated prop
critics are authority for the statement that
at least 10000 men will be affected di-
reety by the order. but there are ,bous.
ands OF others whose numbers at this time
cannot be estimated n
The actual number directly thrown out
Of employment in Butte are. $500. These
include the men in the Boston & Nor
tana mines, the Anaconda mines, the Syn
dicate group. the Butte & Boston mines,
Colorado smelter. the Washoc group and
the switching crews and other employees OF
the b., A. x p. railway, who have TO do
with shipping ore from the hill mines to
Anaconda and Great Falls.
Every Line OF Business.
But outside Of these there must be taken
into consideration men in every line of
business. There is not an industry. not
mercantile establishment not a line OF
business in Butte that is not dependent to
a greater or less extent on the properties
that have been closed down. Business
men must curtajl their pay rolls. all en-
ployers necessarily will have to reduce
their forces
At Anaconda the Amagamated employees
at the new Washoe smel,ers. at the line
kilns, at the silica quarrics. at the brick
yard and at the boundary are thrown out.
The closing of the Boston < Montana
smeter at Great Falls will leave many
hundreds OF men there out Of employment.
Then. too, there are the employees Of the
Blacktoot Milling company in the woods
and in the saw mill at bonper, the same
class OF men working for the Anaconda
Copper Mining company's lumber depart
mcnt, which centers in its big mill at Ham
ilton, probably the coal miners at Storrs,
the coal miners at Belt-.all these go out,
In Wyoming, Too.
The company operates extensive coal
mines at Diamondville. Wyo. While these
will not be entirely shut down, because
they supply coal TO the trade as well as e.
the company, the output will be limited ma
terially.
The Pleasant Valley coke producers at
Pleasant Valley, Utah. the lime and silica
quarries in Jefferson county, the coal mines
at Horr, the lime ouarries at Maiden Rock
on the Oregon Short Line--these and
number of other industries in this and adj
joining states are not owned by the
Amalgamated but they will all probably
have to shut down, as their chief customer
is the Amalgamated.
The number of employees on the Montana
Central railway will be cut down because
the crews which have handled the ore
trains from Butte to Great Falls no longer
are necessary.
Tie Butte. Anaconda & Pacific railway
will be able to dispense with practically all
its freight crews, because there will be no
ore to transport to the Anaconda smelters.
Ore shipments from Butte to Anaconda
have aggregated about 5000 tons day.
Ranchers Affected.
Ranchcrs who have found profitable
market for their hay and other produce in
the lumber camps and other enterprises
conducted by the Amalgamated companies
will be hurt.
In fact the whole industrial body of the
state has been stricken. The news that
the warfare which has been waged against
the Amalgamated companies in this state
has compelled the shut down is the worst
that ever came to the state.