Arizona republican., 1908-04-15

| given in the press dispatches thu
 strike at the great mining camp, whicf attracted much Snterest from all part. of the country.s While here yesterday he met an old college friend in tho ] person of Sheriff Hayden. whom ht 1 knew at Stanford. Mir Erb was the
 quarterback on the football team while
 Mir. Hayden played center. After
 wards MT. Erb graduated in the law course at the Columbia university. and immediately afterwards joined the newspaper fraternity, first doipg re- portorial work on the New York/Sun
 later on the san Francisco Chronicle
 He is now engaged in mine promotion at Goldfield besides taking whatever
 law practice comes his way. For a young man his experience has been varied and he is most entertaining gentleman to engage in conversation.
 Speaking yesterday. concerning the conditions at Goldfield. Mir Erb said that practically all the lawless ele- ment had been run out of the country and the labor situation was now easy of solution. The strike was declared off some time ago. which Was a practical acknowledgement of defeat by the union. The mine operators had not recognized the union, but every thing was moving along peaceably. There are now about 1900 to 2000 men employed in the camp and the force is being constantly increased. so that within the next two months over 5000 will be at work. All appear to be well satisfied. MT. Erb lays the origin of the trouble to the agitators who misrepresented things to the miners. When the issuance. of scrip was made necessary by the financial stringency. though the operators guaranteed it. and offered a number of substantial banks as reference where the scrip would be cashed, these facts were not given to the members of the union by the leaders. who told the men that the paper was no good. Mir Erb says that the law abiding and intelligent element among the miners was never in favor of the strike and he scores the leaders in no unmistakeable terms. All these disreputable characters have been dis credited. and the country freed of their baneful influence. There is a movement 10 make all the camps in the state open. Wonder. Manhattan. Fairview and Tonopah are all now em- ploying both union and non-union la bor. the proportion of each being about equally divided.
 Regarding the order prevailing. MT. Erb said that there was very little trouble. The camp is still policed by 30 men of the state organization. but they have little n do as the radicals and hot-heads have been removed. Before the coming of the troops, he felt that person and life were in dan ger. His mail had been swollen each day with threatening letters from an- onymous sources to which he paid lit- tie heed. except to go armed and be on his guard As secretary of the association he was a more or less marked man everywhere he went. Af- ter the arrival of the troops the threatening letters ceased to come. The association was the best organiz- ed body in the history of mining af- fairs, and it would continue in the field, growing in strength. as the oper- ators recognized it's necessity. Even the better element of the union rec ognized it's necessity as a power for the good of both operator and laborer.
 Goldfield now has about 15.000 pop ulation. Mining operations are pick ing up, the Daisy, the Great Bend, and the St. Ives have been added to the shipping list. The deepest working in the camp is 600 feet. The shafts which have been sunk down lately have opened up new strikes. New -t,as1- hawk and the Little Florence. On the latter property a fat streak has been encountered which runs S76,0OO This of course. was only a pocket. but it~was fully 90 feet in extent. An other pocket feet square turned out S23.000. Rawhide is a coming camp. but MT. Erb thought it had been greatly exaggerated by reports.