Arizona republican., 1917-07-08
At The Cost of Tax Payers

BISBEF Ariz.. July 7.-Arizona tax
 payers are losing something like S10O,-
 900 the week because of the labor
 troubles in the state at this time. That
 figure is based upon the taxes the cop
 per mines would pay if operating full
 capacity for the privilege of taking ore
 out of the ground. Their tax payments
 are figured upon the tonnage of copper
 they produce and the price they get
 for it.
 Arizonas production the present
 month under normal conditions, would
 have been around 90,000,000 pounds. As matters stand, 46,000,0 pounds have
 been cut off the total by strikers. Can anea's 7,000,000 pounds should be added, making 53,000,000 taken out of produc- tion through the I. w. w. movement in Arizona. The tax loss on the 46,000,00
 pounds which the state will not make
 this month, figuring 2S cents as the
 price the producers would receive,
 which is about what their contracts
 average, will go something over $400,-
 coo the month. The business man, the
 city property owner, the farmer and the
 cattleman the latter two classes in the
 largest measure, will have to dig into
 their pockets to make up the shortage, for the state needs every dollar of nor
 nal time tax production to conduct its business.
 Meantime, business men the state over are being handed a close times envelope that two months ago they did
 not dream to be among the possibilities Those in the mining districts are at the immediate time the heaviest sui ferers, but the tightening up is reach ing out over the state from the mining
 districts rapidly and it will not be long until the outside cities feel it sharply The money of the mining districts keeps the banks of the outside com munities flush. provides loans for farmers and cattlemen and for those improving city property. Thousands l of dollars of it, too are carried to the i outside towns by traders and vacation ists from the mining centers. It has been estimated that but for the pres ] ent trouble. Arizona miners and theil | families and the business and profes-
 sional men and their families, would | have carried ten million dollars to Los 1 Angeles and its beach resorts this sea ! son. They will have to get along witt | probably less than half of that unless ] there is a more speedy wiping out oi l the trouble in the state than there is 1 now the prospect of
 It is estimated that in the largel
 mining cities of the state the decrease 1 in business and the loss of account:
 will run from $150,000 in the first weel at Globe Miami to more than $200,OO' l in Bisbee Pocketbooks have snapped i shut. Trade is at standstill. Nobody l is doing business except the railroads l These are carrying more passenger: 1 from the mining centers than ever be 1 fore in their history, because the min 1 ing camps have had more population 1 They will be lamentably shy on tina 1 item when the strikes close, however
 and therein is a no small threat to thu l future, because it means that there vii | be 2 shortage of labor as well as | shortage of trade. It will not be recov cred from in months, because many O 1 the men now leaving are going to new lines of employment, mainly in thu i ship-yards. in such cases as they ar'
 not findir 7 locations in distant minins camps where trouble has not entered , Meantime boarding houses are c!oslns