The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-09
ARE READY FOR
A FINISH FIGHT
GolDFIElD MINERS AND OPER-
AToRs PREPARE FOR A SIEGE.
MINES WILL BE REOPENED
Some Time This Week-Federal
Troops are in Camp-kIl Mines
are Picketed by Members
of the Union.

Goldfeld, New. Dec. Capt Will
lam Cox, the representative of Gov.
Sparks i'm Goldfeld stated Sunday
that he had information from the
Niue Owners association that an at
tempt will be made during the week
to reopen the mines here with non
union men. This information has
been communicated to the governor
and Is in the hands of Col. Alfred
Reynolds, commanding the federal
troops encamped in this city. Officials
of the Mine Owners association re-
fuse to say positively that such Is the
case. but every indication points to
the fact that Wednesday has been de-
cided on as the date when the at
tempt will be made to put men in the
mines to pump out the water that is
filling the lower levels.
There are nine companies of troops
here, the detachment from Monterey
having gone into camp on Combina-
tion hill, within 800 yards of the mill
of the Goldfield Consolidated Co. The
detachment which came from San
Francisco remains in the camp estab-
lished in the northwestern part Of
town, mile and a half from the near
est mine. Col. Reynolds, command
ing all the troops here, is quartered
in tent in the first camp and will re-
main there. He refuses to say
whether he will detail soldiers to
pa-"ol the mines when the attempt is
n. .e to reopen, but merely states
that the troops are here to preserve
order.
Sheriff ingalls,, of Esmeralda coun-
ty, In which Goldheld is located, has
gone to some distant mines and the
sheriff's Office Is in the hands of I'M
der Sheriff Bert Knight, who asserts
that he Is able to handle any crisis
that may arise from the attempt to
reopen the mines
He has sworn In dozen deputies.
He characteriZes the statements OF
the mine owners that the union men
are arming themselves and preparing
to make trouble as false, and says
that in his belief there will be no ef-
fort made to prevent the mine owners
from working the mines with what
ever men they may employ.
A telegram which the sheriff sent
to Gov Sparks protesting against the
presence of the troops In Goldfied
remains unanswered.
From what can be gathered it
seems probable that the Mine own
ers' association was primarily respon-
sible for the presence OF the federal
troops here, but that II was not in
I tended In the first place that troops
should be sent at this time. IL was
intended to have them i'm readiness
to respond to an urgent call, but when
the fact became public that the send
ing of troops was contemplated the
governor was told that IL would be
best to have the troops on the
ground, as the miners were inconsed
over the fact OF the troops being held
in readiness to come and might COM
NIT violence at any minute. The mine
owners then saw the chance to take
advantage of the presence OF the
troops here to begin preparations to
reopen
All the mines are picketed by union
men and according To the statement
Of the owners 1t Is impossible for the
! owner and manager of property to
visit his property to know what con-
dition 1t is In. much less to put men
In the mine to work the pumps.
Both sides state that the fight Is on
and that this Is to be fight to a fin
, ish and that they are prepared for II.
Neither side pretends that the ques-
tion of accepting the scrip issued by
the John s. Cook Co. bank was ever
anything more than an excuse to
bring the whole long list of griev-
ances ON either side to an issue.