Arizona republican., 1917-09-23


 sumers have been holding off from purchases pending the government
 decision as to price, and their stock
 floors have gone bare. Decrease in
 exports last month tells a like story. 1 When price is fixed by the govern l ment, it is more and more the belief
 that there will be nothing like enough
 metal to fill the demands of the trade.
 The Silver Belt of Humboldt
 One investment Of local capital
 likely to return profits through the
 Silver Belt Consolidated Mines com
 pany of Humbold Arizona, which
 owns property and has record for
 production dating back to the sixties,
 is on a mineral vein system that has , yielded silver and lead, zine. copper
 and gold and the main working shaft i is less than 400 feet from the point where the Arizona National, con- i trolled by Prescott capitalists, has extracted and shipped more than 1 $200, 900 worth of silver-lead ore since i last October.
 ] The Silver Belt Consolidated, which owns about 160 acres and about 6,000 {, feet of the vein system, was taken
 over when bar silver was selling for l less than 70 cents per ounce. con- plete equipment was installed and ex i, ploration was started along the line l of the surface veins, in accordance with the advice of engineers. Yes terday it was stated that shipments ] of silver-lead ore will commence on l October 15, and that stoping opera tions, from the 275-foot level to the surface, will insure gross retursn of 1 not less than s25,000 per month. 1 Among the principal stockholders in l this city are John J. Mahony, Jr., H. i J. Mahony and Colonel J. B. Dudley. 1 Mining at Bisbee
 1 BISBEE, Ariz., Sept. 15.-The mid dle of the month finds the Warren district continuing steady increase in employment and gradually growing
 nearer to normal in the number of men on the pay rolls. Increase is i also being made in efficiency, but not /, in as rapid proportion. These same conditions apply to every other cop
 per mining district in Arizona where | in strike trouble put it's blight this ' year. following frenzied anti-govern-
 ment, pro German appeals.
 The low efficiency is due to the 1 fact that working forces have been reconstructed in large measure with
 green men, most of them from the agricultural districts of the state and 1 from Texas, attracted by high wages. l In consequence the big copper pro ducing properties of the state which have made resumption since strike periods have been largely turned into schools of mines.
 | It is to be said on this score that
 they are probably the best schools
 ever conductE for adults in the coun- ftry The seasoned men in charge Of
 the new material are the best miners in the world They are men. too,
 with whom patriotism stood above all ! else when it came to the test applied i by the radical agitators responsible i for the strikes These instructors, too, are working with the best mechanical and all other mine, mill and smelter /! equipment that science has succeeded i in evolving. The man learning the mining game under these conditions is getting more than any school could 1 give him on the practical side, and instead of paying for instruction he is being paid the highest day wage in the mining industry.
 | Mine arrangements breaking in new
 men express themselves as satisfied with results as they are developing. igu7sdv-v?OoOSj- satfc-i( 6.bt Inf mz They feel that they are building up l the most lnteitiSeNl, lOydl anu colii-
 petept forces of metal operatives ever
 employed in the west The lower ef- ! ficiency during q matter of several months is not disturbing them, for
 they know when these new men do attain efficiency they will establish
 higher records than previously attain
 able and that this and other general
 results will amply repay time put in
 on them. Meanwhile they are secure
 from new strike calls overnight. It would be erroneous to presume
 that many skilled miners are not also canning into the state from other mining regions. Many of these are glad to escape the rigorous winter conditions in the intermountain and lake mining countries. Their number is showing increase as adverse re- ports circulated on the outside by the Arizona disturbers are overcome
 These reports among other thngs al- ! legged that union men could not fine employment in the state. Union mer are finding that there is prompt em- ployment for all except I. W. w. ant radical associates.