Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-09-28
u. S. Runs Mine
In North Dakota
Lie is Given to Opponents Of Plan fer
Governments Operation.
MINERS ARE WELL PAID
AND SAFE At WORK.

Coal 10 Produced at Price Much
Below That Of Private
,s Mines.
I Williston. N. D. Sept. 2s.-ot
course.its absurd to talk About having
the Government run the Alaska coal
mines. says q correspondent of the
Cincinnati Post.
Uncle sam would be q fiat failure
a. . miner sure as shOOtins.
You've been hearing lot Of this
Kind of talk-from two kinds Of PEG
pie, q
First The colonies Of industry
who get rich by exploiting the peo.
pies property.
Second-The really honest talks
who doubt the wisdom OF putting the
Government into the coal business.
The first class are strictly prohibit
ed from reading this story. It's ex
4lasively for the second. All ye Of
hat group give ear.
geJCLE SAM rs ALREADY IN
fHE COAL BUSINESS.
And that isn't all
UNCLE SAM IS A SUCCESS As
A MINER.
know this because was sent M
here by the editor Of The Post 10 Ind
out I'm writing cold coal facts. that
saw With my own eyes. heard with
~ o. discovered with my
'aT- Ne Has The Proof.
I'm ready to hand the proofs and
any further information to anybody
that wants them.
Here at Winston. N. D.. the Cor
eminent of the United States, which
would make a flat failure OF coal
mining owns and operates coal
mine, and
PRODUCES COAL AT $1.6O PER
TON IN A MODEL MIME.
Furthermore 8S
THE GOVERNMENT. WORKS ITS
MEN SIX DAYS A WEEK, EIGHT
HOUKS A DAY, AND THEY AVER
AGE A PROFIT OF 800 A. MONTH
ABOVE LIVING EXPENSES.
The retail price of coal ct WillistOn,
maintained by private operators, Is
$3.50 a ton.
Government coal could be laid down
beside it at SLIGO, but the Govern
ment burns the coal itself. to run its
big Willtston and Buford-T Trenton
irrigation power project
Some Profit In Coal.
Note: $3.50 less $1.:6O equals 90
cents, clean profit. That's what the
industry collects at Williston. Sc
Read these facts that ! discovered
about the Government mine:
It costs more to operate the mine be-
cause Of the character Of the soil and
coal which makes extra timbering
necessary.
No boys are employed.
Every needed safety device Il used
No one has ever been killed or SER
iously hurt. .
Air in tunnels 1000 feet under
ground is sweet and fresh.
Exits are arranged SO that entomb-
ing Is impossible.
The work day Is eight hours.
Nobody works but six days week.
Miners get SO cents ton for
room work." 40 cents in 1O-foot en-
tries, 80 cents in 7-fOot entries and<
make an average Of IS day.
The Government provides .mess"
where miners get good meals at %
cents each.
The Government provides barracks
rent free, the miners providing their
bedding only.
The Government provides good cot
|tages for married men ct $40 month.
In spite Of this system. government
mined coal costs the Government but
$1.6O. The mine runs only four
months Of the year during the crop
growing season.
The young engineers Of the reclama
ton service Of the Interior Depart
ment who are running the mine. tel
me they could clip another quarter on
the cost per ton II they operated ell
the year around.
Once more: axplOiters Of the peo.
pie are warned not to pay any atten,
ton to this story.