Arizona republican., 1917-07-11

to operate the mines and a clash might occur between the two factions of strikers. This condition developed last week at the mines on Copper Hill which was declared fair" by the Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers union.
 But, when the union attempted to re- turn men to work there, they were stopped by l. W. w. leaders and it was decided to withhold the men from this mines as we'll as the others while the general strike was in progress. The leaders of the International Union have expressed themselves as being confi- dent a settlement could soon be reached in this district if it was not for the Industrial Workers of the World mem bers.
 Running the picket line of strikers at the Old Dominion property, staff correspondent of the Associated Press late today visited the United States army camp and visited the volunteer bumpers who are manning the great pumps 1000 feet underground that are keeping the famous Old Dominion mine from filling with water during the strike and rendering worthless a property valued at $10,000,000
 After sheer drop of 1000 feet in a cage, down the pump shaft, the pump station is reached through a cave-l like tunnel where idle electric mine mules block the way. There, in a great vaulted chamber of solid rock. is a pumping plant as large and complete as that of a great city. The seepage water from the mine is pumped rom the lower levels into the big pump, or catch basin, on the pump level and the INTnf nfxat. ftAy Il. |. ! collected by means of remarkable system of underground drainage. It is then lifted at the rate of 4,000,000 gall Ions day to the surface
 , In this dimly lighted cavern, pump CTS man the battery of steam and cleo tric pumps. A Boston technical school graduate, stripped to the waist like a naval gunner, oiled his pump while Brown, University of California and
 Yale men came out of the darkness in overalls and undershirts, their faces covered with engine grease and grins.
 These men are from the engineering and executive staffs and volunteered
 for emergency duty underground when the strike was called.
 One veteran union bumper, who had
 been underground ten years, peered from pump pit, dripping with perspi- ie,tioil, anu dShcu lIdl le FSSOcldteO Press announce that the regular bumpers were not strikebreakers be- cause they had never been called out
 by their union.
 Another bumper appeared like a goblin from a drain shaft to say he had worked thirty hours underground without food and only the mine water to drink when the strike was first called. He is also d union pump man Lieutenant Jack Lewis, adjutant to | Lieutenant Colonel A. G. White, to- gether with former traffic sergeant from the Fl Paso police force and the pump foreman, acted as guides for the
 subterranean trip.
 The pup tents of the United States 1 troops have been pitched on the hard I glassy slag dump of the Old Domin-
 ion shelter. Electric lights have beer
 installed in each tent and the com
 mandinG officer has his headquarters l ln the master mechanics home. l breastwork of great chunks of slas has been thrown up and Lieutenant i Little]ohns machine guns are set up 1T ] q position to sweep all approaches tt ! the shelter The regimental colors fly from the headquarters flagpole ant 1 guards patrol the approaches from al
 sides. even on the skyline of the bar ren Pinal mountains i At night powerful searchligh ] which was shipped here from the Sar l Francisco exposition sweeps the coun- i try for miles around the Old Dominion l plant from it's pinnacle on top of thu i highest hoist rigging. Every automo 1 bile from Miami or Globe is flooded
 with light on top of the highest hois l rigging. Every automobile from Mi
 ami or Globe is flooded with light nc ! the surrounding hills swept with tht
 white beam to prevent a surprise rusf i on the properties.
 The mills. concentrators and ground. ! are also brilliantly illuminated a night, giving the ground the appear
 ance of great exposition The search light, like the underground pumps, art manned by college men who have beer
 shut off from the outside world since 1 last Monday.
 Intimation that the I. W. w. strike of the metal miners of this and othel i districts might spread to the railroads l the water transportation organizations
 the grain fields and other allied organ.