Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-04-10
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Idaho Fight New Lead Tariff.

fhuSlaSm BOISE cHdpIer, luduO mliiiiiS
association, last night was given birth
in the Commercial club assembly room.
Denunciations of the proposed tariff on
lead, the appointment of committee
Of five to represent Boise at the Salt
Lake meeting called for the purpose OF
protesting against threatened reduc-
lions, explanations of the tremendous
value of the mining industry to Idaho
and the enormous possibilities OF its
future development; and the indorse-
ment by the mining men of the home
industry movement were all impairment
parts of the ell-attended meeting.
The Idaho Mining association, with
which Boise chapter and other chap
tiers ali over the state are to affiliate,
was represented by Senator Ravenel
Macbeth, it's secretary. The local
chapter Endorsed the action taken by
the state association in signing call
for meeting to be held at Salt Lake.
The action was taken in response to
the following telegram from George
w. Ritter, secretary of the former in
termountain conference of ore pro-
ducers;
General conference zinc ore ard
lead ore producers of Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and
New Mexico will be held at Salt Lake,
Thursday, April 3, to consider meas
ures for preventing reduction of tariff
on zinc and lead. Friends at Washing
ton urge Importance of getting together
and adopting memorial or brief show
ing up each industry in entirety, rather
than by states. This call issued on in
itiative of state and district mining as
sociations of majority of foregoing
states"
A resolution introduced by Senator
Macbeth was unanimously adopted. 1t
requests the members of the Idaho
Mining association to purchase, when
ever possible, the products of Idaho
manufactures and to buy supplies from
Idaho dealers. H. ]. McGirr, vice
presendent of the Idaho Home Industry
organization, formed here few days
ago. explained to the mining men the
Importance of the resolution and thank
ed Senator Macbeth for its introduction
and the members of Boise chapter fo
its adoption.
State Mine Inspector Bell addresset
the meeting, denouncing the threatened
tariff reduction and telling what j
would mean to the state as whole
In part he said:
Il was among those who went t.
Washington a year ago to protes
against the reduction of the tariff an,
/ am familiar with its Importance.
was shown there that the Idaho pr,
ducers of zinc and lead pay an averag
wage of $3.50 for an eight-hour day
while incontrovertible figures fror
mines of Mexico and Spain show laho
there costs 60 cents day.
Idaho produces over 30 per cent O
all the lead produced in the Unite
States. The Bunker Hill and Sulliva
mine is the premier of its kind in tn
world. The ore is not high grade an
pays only about $1-62 per ton profit
which is an exceedingly low margin
I his proposed reduction would entirel
remove the profit. The demand for re
duction comes from men who manufa,
ture the products of lead. We al
willing to meet them half wa and
have the tariff reduced to a reasone b
extent.
In the last three years the state
Idaho has produced lead and silver
the value of $45, 900, 900. Of tn
$23, 000,0 was lead alone and eve,
pound of this ore was produced at
loss of .48 of a cent. Ii the ore CO.
tanned lead alone it could not not hay
been mined, but fortunately it all CO.
tains fair quantity of silver, and
Idaho the profit always has been take
from the silver content of the ore.
Consequently the removal of tt
tariff on lead will destroy this industr
1t will throw out of employment 50
men in Idaho who are actually al
directly employed and who support
c immunity of IL, 600. With transport
ton and all the other indirect emplo