The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-04-02

tive home is Salt Lake. Mr.. Spills
bury Is a strawberry blonde. with hair
Of bright red. The natives find his
name hard to pronounce and SO they
call him Eel Gringo Rubio,'' which
means the Red Gringo, The manager
of the mines is w. j. Hamilton, who
made reputation in the far west, and
who is said to receive here a salary
two thirds as large as that of Presi-
dent Wilson. All of these men are
well paid. They are employed on
contracts of two years and 1t costs
$500 or more to pay their travelling
expenses from the United States to
the mines.
Many of these foreign employees
have their wives and families with
them, and SO far l have not met one
man or woman who is not pleas
with his or her lot. The company
does everything it can to make life
agreeable, and the people live almost
as we'll as at home.
Fine Quarters for Employees.
In the first place, both the smelter
ord the mines have hotels built Of
stone, with bathrooms and all modern
conveniences, put up for the employees
who are bachelors. They get board
and room for $25 per month. The
married employees have comfortable
stone cottages, and they can buy their
foreign supplies at the company store
At both La Fundicon and Cerro dc
Pasco there are club houses, with
libraries and reading rooms supplied
with the latest ma gaines and papers
and also bowling alleys, billiard balls
rand rooms for entertainments and
dances. They have tennis courts
where they play matches and baseball
grounds, where the smelter empioyes
sometimes contest with those of the
mines on the diamond In addition tC
this there are pony riding into the
country and excursions to the tropi-
cal valleys. The foreign settlement
has a creditable monthly magazine
the Inca Chronicle, edited by A. r.
Swanson, which has the distinction %
being published nearer heaven thar
any other periodical on earth. 1t has
also a hospital with expert physicians
and trained nurses, and when the mer
are sick they are we'll cared for or are
sent "down the hill" The WORDS
clown the hill" and "up the HILL" NEAR
to and from the sea coast. The dis
lance is about 200 miles by railWa,
and the hill from which they drop o.
ascend is above the top of Pixies peak
Sickness Due to Rare Air.
Most of the Americans and othel
foreigners who live here in the Andes
tell me they are healthy, and that this
is so of the men, women and children
There are, however, some who come
who can not stand the rarity Of thu
air, and many are afflicted with pneu
monia and have to be sent back pos
haste on special trains / know o
employees who have come up three o
Il
sick have at last had to give up Il
despair.
AS to soroche, or the mountain sick
ness, that seems to attack every on
when he first reaches an altitude 0
two miles or more above the sef
Every foreigner / have met has bee
more or less afflicted with it. 1t usu
ally comes the first day after the arr
val. and may last two or three day
! or two weeks. Those who have Wea
! hearts are likely to drop insensibl
! and it sometimes causes death. AS
, rule, most people get over it, al houg
! it will return at any Over-eXertlon {
imprudence, and that after months
freedom and health.