Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-12
Grant County Most Prosperous in the State
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Silver City, n. NJ, May II.
Grant county has gone over
the top. Her Victory Lean
allotment has been far over
subscribed. The last Liberty
Loan was oyefsubscribed
about four hundred per cent,
leading all the counties Of
the Eleventh Federal Re-
serve district.
This showing was made
possible by the big mining
interests in Grant county as
we'll as by the energetic en-
deaFors of one Of the lives
citi2enries that can be
found in all the southwest,
or anywhere else, for that
matter.
Grant county is not only
alive, it is moving, and in
the right direction, all the
time.
But the greatest asset the
county has are two great
mining interests, together
with a number Of smaller but
paying properties. The big
companies are the Chino ana
the Phelps-Dodge. Second
in importance is the Han
! over Bessemer Iron and Cop
per company.
But there is another in
terest that is of vast import
ance to Grant county, to the
whole of New Mexico, IN
fact: that is Fort Bayard
government hospital. which
now has a large number of
inmates from the army and
navy and has millions of dol
lars in improvements Rut
/ Fort Bayard will be treated
in another article.
Labor Wen Paid.
The Chino company en-
ploys about 2,2O0 men. all Of
them well paid. Just now
the plant is running at only
about sixty per cent of its
capacity. owing to the fact
that no market exists for itS
copper. Practically the en-
tire production is being
stored, and it is being Oper-
ated solely because the COM
pany does not want 10 shu.
down during the dun period.
Superintendent John NJ. Sui
ly stated to The writer that
the plant would not close ami
that there would be no fun
Their reduction in the work
ing force, at least not dur
ing the present year.
It IS difficult to imagine
better working conditions
than in the Chino and Tyrone
properties, the Tyrone EN-
ploying about one thousand
men, is a Phelphs-Dodgo
property
These two companies spent
more than $4,000 a day for
| labor last year. or about So
100000 in wages during the
year!
Ono of the really strange
sights, to any person who has
had his idea of labor largely
from agitators and from see
ing the labor conditions about
the southern cotton and iron
factories, is the hundreds of
labOrers going to and from
their work in automobiles.
AT Tyrone, where the houses
are farther from the mines
and the mills, those workers
not have automobiles are cal
and from their work in big
cars, built like the cars for sil
! in the big cities. These cars 9
| vided by the company, opera
maintained at its own expense
/ convenience of labor.
The houses for labor at Sar
and Hurley. operated by the
are we'll built frame houses, at
~ heated, and equipped with q
ern conveniences. The rental
t is less than two per cent of
and water and light are free.
The Hospitals.
The Chino hospital at Santa
one Of the best equipped in tn
/ try. and DIR. Carrier, in charg
all of the care of every case II
tn be expected of the old fam
stefan. But DR.. Carrier does
fine himself to the old family
clans methods. He has a wei
pei laboratory and the yer,
thing in the way of X-ray m
He has three assistants, and
thing that modern science can
the hospital work is carried c
every case that comes into th'
tai
The same careful attention
to the health of the families
employees.
Except that it is not so la
Tyrone hospital is Just aS wei
ped as that at Santa Rita.
workers and their families h
best care that skill than civ
Tyrone Is Unique.
The whole scheme of the b.