The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-18
LEAD MINERS
Of UTAH MOVE
Compile Data and Select Men
to Make Fight for Reten-
ton of Lead Tariff.

According to the following dispatch the
American Mining congress is at last get
ting busy on the lead tariff question. Sec
| rotary Callbreath has issued a call for a
meeting of lead mine operators in this
! city Monday next. and while the time is
| at variance with date set in the invitation
| of the Utah Mine Operators associa ton,
to kindred organizations in Colorado,
/ wyoming ana Idaho, which was Thursday
next. there is no doubt but that everything
/ possible will be done to make a conference
such as the mining congress has called. a
success, II the mining operators come.
But don't think for a minute that we
| nave been asleep on this question: said
| secretary H s Joseph of the Utah Mine
Operators association. when his attention
was called to the dispatch last evening
Without having received aNsingle re-
Spouse TO our invitation to outside opera
| tors TO meet with US on the 18th, we have
gone aoout our business and have COM
piled an array of authenticated data
based on the statistics of 1906. when con-
ditions were normal, that must conclu-
sively show that we cannot stand for any
reduction in the lead tariff without disas-
| trous results to the lead mining industry
of the west.
Il want to say that we have worked
early and late on this business and no
man in the state has been as persistent
and painstaking in the work as has been
Captain Duncan MacVichie. Through the
captain, who is a personal friend. Con-
gresham John Wingate Weeks of Bos-
ton has agreed to lead the fight of the
Utah producers, and Captain MaeViehie
has been selected by the Utah Mine on
ertors' association to go on and help him
and TO lead the Utah delegation of whom
soever it may consist, when the fight be-
gins in earnest Captain MacVichie leaves
for the east today to get matters under
way and the evidence compiled is going
to be in his keeping.
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possible and. If operators from other
states come here for a conference, wheth-
ct in response TO our invitation or that of
the American Mining congress. we shall
do everything possible to help get re-
suits"
Denver. March 17.-Following the infor-
nation that the new tariff bill provides
for a reduction of the rate on lead con-
tents OF ores from IL TO l cent per pound
comes the announcement Of determination
of western mining men to fight this re
duction. which they declare will have the
effect of closing practically all of the low
grade independent lead-producing mines in
the United States
To this end Secretary J. F. Callbreath of
the American Mining congress today is
sues call for meeting of operators Of
lead producers to be held in Salt IaRe
pected that Idaho. Utah and Colorado
will be largely represented.
Mr.. Cailbreath favoTs d vigorous cam
Daign against this feature OF the new tar
if bill and viii seek to have headquar-
tiers established at Washington and a good
delegation of interested people there to
urge congress to defeat the proposed re-
duction on lead ores. To this end he will
leave Denver the latter part OF this week
for an extended trip through the west
The people of Colorado alone will lose
100000 annually" saws Secretary Call
breath IF the duty Is reduced to cent
a pound Not only that. but thousands of
men will be thrown out of employment
and milling and reduction works to-the
value Of many millions of dollars will
stand idle"
Last night the word was flashed over
the wires from Washington that that part
of the committees report bearing on the
lead tariff. which cut the duty from 1is
to l cent on lead contained in ores had
been changed back to IL cents per pound
after the schedule was printed. a correc-
tion of the report sent out was therefore
ordered by the Associated Press. In other
words. it appears that the ways and
means committee has not changed the ex-
fGrfD- tariff On Cd in %