The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-08-26
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ssociated Press Dispatch,

tnriStldnla, NUG " dS AUS
The enterprise of American capital
lists from Boston who two years ago
started coal mining in the Arctic i9.-
ands of Spitzbergen has brought
about results important to the des-
TIMES of that littleknown territory.
Hitherto Spitzbergen has held the
legal status of mo Mans Land
While it was supposed to have min
eral resources, no one hal been SUI
iciently bold to venture capital ana
human lives in an attempt to
wrest them from the ice-bouna
cocks. Whaling ships touched al
the island OCCASIONALLY, and 1t has
been the base for Arctic explorers,
but otherwise it had no use TO civi-
lization. Hence it remained geo
graphical maverick, without nation
ality. laws or inhabitants.
No sooner had the operations OF
the American Arctic Company
proven a success for, although an
output Of fifty Thousand tens ye2r
does not seem large to American and
European mining magnates it dis
closes disabilities than promoter
from other countries began to de-
! scend Jpn the islands Claims have
been located already by Russians
Belgians, English and Scandana'
vians. This international occ1pa.
ton, with its chances for disputes
ind the experiences Of the American
company have brought about :
strong need for some sort OF gov
eminent. Norway has made repre-
sensations to the United States an'
the principal European nations il
the matter, and an internati)na
conference will be held at Christians
before the end Of the year, with tn
purpose of giving spitzbergen
definite status Norway has tn
closest relations, geographical am
commercial, with the islands, bu
amy proposal to assert soyereignt.
might meet with objections from he
Scandinavian neighbors and from
Russia. The output OF the Amcri
can mine is shipped to Norway, an,
within the past year the Norwegian
government established a wireless
station on Spitzbergen to bring tn
country into communication through
the Norwegian station at Hammer
| fest.
The experiences of the America
mining managers have been cxcit
ing and dangerous. About two hun
fdred and fifty men, Swedes Nor
wegians, Firms and Russians, ma
= been employed in the mines, r.
darkness and hardships Of the la
Arctic winter brought them to
! state of rebellion Assaults wer
made on the foreman, and DARN
ost of est winter they lived /
daily peril When the company az
pealed to the Norwegian goveramer
Or punishment of miners who al
tackled foreman with picks the
found that Norway had no jurisdi,
ton.
Late in July the troubles at tn
! mine eliminated in ganert
@ Tutiny, The miners seized ii
{ steamer Alma, clustered by III
8 company, which was at Advent ba
and compelled the captain to tai
them to Tromsoe, where they wei
LANDED. Forty Norwegians anon
The number were willing to continl
work, but the others coerced Their
e under threats Of death, to join In II
& strike. Better barracks and high
!, wages We're the demands made |
Is the miners who were paid six Kro
= ers per day, but asked for seye
!, While the wage paid was a high OF
;, for the North, the men represe
that the peculiar hardships of Ii
y N Spit2bergan entitle them to q
81 2eptional pay.