Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-27
AMALGAMATEB'S
 SITUATION IS
 MUCH BATTERED
Asserted That This Will be
 The Banner Year

Managing Director John D. Ryan of the Amalgamated. is enjoying a brief visit with friends and relatives in this county, says the Houghton Gazette. Pressed for an interview, Mir. Ryan stated that the Amalgamated produc- ton for the current year would be the largest of any since it's inception. Last fan the Colorado 1smelter at Butte was closed down. while during April of this year operations were suspended at the Butte & Boston plant, with the result that but two smelters-the Washoe & Anaconda and the Boston & Montana at Great Falls are treating the company's en- tire output.
 Under the new arrangement more effective saving of the metal values is secured, while liberal reductions have been noted in the cost of treating the ores. The ore tonnage treated at these plants, by the way, is in ex- cess of that supplied when shipments were also forwarded to the Colorado and Butte & Boston smelters.
 Asked as to conditions physically. Mir Ryan stated that the mines of the Amalgamated were looking as well as ever, also that they were now supplying as large a volume of high grade ore as at any time in their ca reer. The company, however, thanks to decreased costs and more effective methods of treatment, is mining a grade of ore that under former con- ditions was looked upon as not pos sessing a commercial value.
 The scale of development work has been broadened materially during the past year, as a result of which ad diJional depth has been secured and he extent of available reserves con siderably enlarged. The showing al the lower leve.s. he says, is such as .O insure the fullest degree of con- fidence. but the reserves thus estab- lished will not te drawn upon for sev- eral years.
 Several important changes are Lc ing made at the Washoe pant with 9 view to facilitating the treatment of | the increased ore tonnage, while oth CT Improvements are contemplated, their purpose being to increase fuTth | sr the snelUng capacity.
 Alr. Ryan's reply to a query as tC | the present political situation in Mon | tana its effect upon Amalgamated, al- 90 the existing re.at.ons between the | latter and Heinze, was direct to the point Political conditions,' he says
 are entirely satisfactory. The Anal gamated and those at the helm of it's ! affairs have no interest in the poll | tics of Montana. In order to guard 1 the company's interests, however, wa
 were drawn temporarily into affairs
 of this nature. owing to the actions | of certain judges of Silver Bow coun | ty, who seem to have found it t1 their advantage to harass and annoy
 the states leading corporation in the
 conduct of it's affairs.
 These judges and their sympathiz CTS were administered a stinging re | buke last fall, when the fair name oi l the commonwealth was asserted for itself, while in their successors, both in the district court in the county and the court of last resort, are to be found gentlemen of spotless reputa | tions whose single purpose is but to serve the end of justice.
  The recent reversal of the decision of Judge Clancy in the Ripper case by the supreme court was of the high. est importance to the Anaconda, Par rott and Washoe companies, setting aside as it did, the decision by which the property acquired extra lateral rights. while releasing from contro- versy valuable claims owned by the mines mentioned"
 The story of a truce between Anal gamated and NIT. Heinze being broach- ed to Mir. Ryan, he replied most em- phat!cally that there had been none whatever. This story, he says, prob ably originated from the fact that the underground fighting has been entire ly discontinued for the excellent req son that any effort on Heinze's part 10 extract ores owned by the Anal gamated mines has been rendered both dangerous and unprofits ble in consequence of the position taken in the premises by the United States court.
 Concluding, MT. Ryan stated that the labor situation in Montana leaves nothing to be desired, that it's miners. everything considered, are the best paid in this country. and that a more skilled army of workmen is nowhere to be found.