The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-22
Macbeth Lease at Mackay, Ida.
Posts Notice of Increase
to Employees.
ALL SKILLED WORKERS
RAISED 25 TO so CENTS
Smelter Again Running Smooth
ly and Fire Damages Be-
ing Overcome.
Special 10 The Tribune.

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MACKAY, Ida. Nov. 21.-Notices
have been posted throughout the plant
of the Macbeth Lease, announcing the
fact that the management had made
an increase In wages of all the skilled
labor employed, amounting TO from %
| cents TO 30 cents to each man per day.
One reason ascribed for the increase
In the scale of wages at this copper
smelling plant is the fact that the re-
cent advance in copper has added an
increase in the net earnings of the
plant.
Furnace No. 2, which was fred up
after the fire. is running very smoothly
and the improvements added to it are
proving most advantageous. Hung in
the center of the furnace. on level
with the feed floor. is a row of iron
bars, which act as regulator in the
distribution OF all orc that is dumped
in, the charges falling against it scat
ter to every corner of the furnace very
evenly, In the end of the furnace. Just
below the feed floor, an opening with
an iron door permits perfect view of
the molten mass within and affords an
opportunity for breaking the forming
crusts and keeping the blow holes down,
making the action of the heat on the
ores more even.
A new corrugated iron roof and sid
ing is being placed on the furnace room
and as soon as the lumber can be OBJ
manent buildings which are to take
the place of those which burned.
There is now employed in the mine
over one hundred and fifty men and
about one hundred at the smelter plant,
making over two hundred and fifty
men on the payroll,
Gilbert & Carr are stocking up their
mining camp at the Lucky Gulch group
for the winter. Many prospects in this
developed and the mining outlook for
Mackay is better now than it ever
was.
The Fuel Problem.
Again the citizens of Maclsay are
facing coal famine. The coal dealer
Of this city is unable to get any coal TO
amount TO anything. The Macbeth
Lease has let contract for two hun
dred cords of wood. which indicates
that even the large industries of the
West are in the same position as the
average citizen IN regard TO fuel, We
are fortunate in having an abundance
of wood near at hand.
Three thousand rainbow trout min
nows were planted in Lost river last
week They were sent by the govern
meDt fish commissioner.
The store of the Lost River CONNER.
cial company is now lighted by cleo
tricity generated by their own plant.
1t is the first business house in our
town to be lighted in tfis manner,
The creamery at Darlington has
closed down for lack of cream, g
Making New Mine.
The Champion Mining company.
whose property is located in ''Chimney
Gulch, " some FIVE miles from this city.
have been doing a great deal of devel
opment work, on their property during
the past summer and have planned for
a great deal more. Among other things
they nre to extend their main tunnel
500 feet and enlarge the present devel~
opmept work on this tunnel. 1t is also
the intention of the company TO put up
adequate camp holdings for accommo,
dation Of fully dozen men.
W. K. Huntington has finished the
contract of transporting the Stag pile
of the old Cliff smelter TO the Macbeth
Lease smelter.
Mrs. E. P. Wilson has leased the
New Ckallis house at Chalhs, Mrs,
Dodge having been compelled to give it
up on account of her health.