Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-13


general manager of the M. L. &
NJ. Co., came to town last week
and remained until Monday of
this week. While here he issued
an order to restore wages to the
original scale which prevailed be-
fore the financial furry. In jan
uary the M. L. & M. Co. cut the
wages of all employees ten per
cent. but promised them that as
soon as conditions improved the
the company would put them
back again. Conditions have i'm
proved, business is picking up
again and prices of lumber are
going up, and as a result the M. l..
& M. Co., have kept the promise
to its employees and they will go
to work August 1 with wages at
the old scale-Grdndin Herald.
1t is seldom that you hear of a
bunch of yearlings making a trip
to st. Louis and return to the same
neighborhood in less than a month,
but that occurred this spring here
in this county. About the first of
June Henry Swiney bought a a
of cattle on Dickens Valley and
Logan and among them were sew
eral yearlings. He shipped them
to st. Louis and sold them on the
market. Early in July Geo. Boyd
went to the city and bought a
bunch of yearlings, shipped them
to Piedmont and drove them out
to his farm in this county. About
two weeks ago Boyd sold to Perry
Bedwell 48 of them and Mr.. Bed
we'll sent his boys after them. AS
soon as the boys saw the cattle
they recognized several of them as
being the same cattle that their
grandfather Swiney had shipped.
The most remarkable feature
about the matter is that each par
ty that handled the cattle claims
to have made from So to So per
head on them, and they sold the
last time at S12 per head.-Ellington
Press.
Superintendent Cannon of the
Iron Mountain threatens to move
the freight division of the road
from Piedmont to Poplar Bluff I'M
less the citizens of the former place
permit the strike breakers, recent
ly imported to take the place of
strikers, to work in peace. SIT is
but a few miles to Poplar Bluff"
said Mr.. Cannon, "and unless the
men sent to Piedmont are permit
ted to work without being disturb
ed by the citizens, who are in SYM
pathy with the strikers, the freight
division will be removed" Five
of the men sent to Piedmont to
break the strike were arrested one
day last week on charges pre-
ferred by the citizens of the town,
who charged the men with carry
ing concealed weapons. The men
were tried before the mayor
Wednesday and released. Rail-
road officials charge that sympa-
thizers of the striking carmen
threatened to burn the home of a
widow at whose house the men
were boarding. She became
frightened that the threat would
be carried out and the men were
forced to cook their own provis-
ions. Later the railroad company
sent boarding cars to Piedmont for
the accommodation of the men. -
Poplar Bluff Republican.
The Iron Mountain Railroad
Company is having its track re-
surfaced at many points along the
line, and is paying particular at
tention to curves with a view to
making greater speed possible for
the passenger trains. 1t has been
announced that Fast Mail Train
No. Z will soon be put on a much
faster schedule and that the other
passenger trains will also be
speeded up. In order to make
these plans feasible it is proposed
to raise the rail grade at curves,
as a fast running train must have
a properly surfaced track in order
to take sharp curves with safety.
Green Wilson, foreman of the
uorth Piedmont section is in charge
of the extra gang of thirty-fve
men surfacing the track and rails
ing the curves north of Bismarck.
The old elevation of the curves
was one and a quarter inches,
which is supposed to admit OF
trains running at q speed of about
fifty miles an hour. MI. Wilson'S
new instructions provide for an ell
ovation of one and three-quartel
inches, and it is estimated that a
fast train like No. 7 could take q
curve so elevated at a speed o.
seventy to ninety miles an hour
A tie gang is operating ahead o:
Wilson's crew, and there are evil
dences that the road intends tt
put the track in tip top shape
Piedmont Banner.