The diamond drill., 1921-03-05
BIG BENGAL MINE CLOSES AND
F0GARTY ON HALF TIME
WARNER TO SINK SHAFT ONLY
Announcement of a Cut in Stee
Prices About May 1st Was Made
BY Corporation Interest


county. The Bengal mine OF the Pic
kands- -Mather Co. has gone down en-
tirely and the Fogarty has been plac-
ed upon half time. News OF this
change came to Crystal Falls Tues
day when men who had been laid of
at the two properties came here seek
ing work.
The Bengal is next to the Caspian
I'm size. The Caspian. also the prop
erty of the Pickands-M -Mather company,
has been closed since last fall when
II shut down 20 allow or the shaft be-
ing repaired and new head frame
erected. Since that time the lull in
not resumed production although
shaft sinking and other development
work is being prosecuted in a small
way.
The Bengsll employs about 800 men,
most OF whom will be entirely out OF
work as there Is no place for them
at the other mines.
The Fogarty was started up after
the Caspian shut down for the pur-
pose OF keeping at work number OF
men from the Caspian. There were
about $50 men at work and we under
stand that the force will be reduced
to about rs.
Warner Lets Out 100.
The Warner mine has stopped all
production and will confine the work
at that property TO the sinking OF the
new shaft. This work Is being push
ed and will take care OF quite a crew
but the best that the local manage
ment can figure out DIS that at least
100 men will be made idle by the
change.
The new shaft is being sunk and
raised. From surface gang is
pushing down to meet another gang
raising up from the first level and on
every level below gangs OF miners
are raising up to the level above SO
that II is expected that a record will
be made DIN the placing OF this new
shaft in commission.
So far, no orders have been re-
ceived for curtailment at the Amasa-
Porter mine which is being worked
with two crews at capacity
The general steel markets are very
unsettled. Late last week the comp.
troller of the currency uncorked de-
nunciation Of the management OF the
U. s. Steel Corporation. charging that
body with contributing to the unsettl-
ed condition OF the nation by persist
ing in holding up the prices OF steel
while all other products are sagging.
The result of this was an unauthor-
lied statement, claiming TO be made
by authority, advising that a reduc-
ton OF steel prices will be made a
bout May 1. This is Understood 10 |
mean that Il will be made In the near
future as independent manufacturers |
have cut deeply in the present sched-
ulc and the steel business Ia getting |
more and more unsettled every day. |
Most forecssters believe that de- |
cided reduction In steel prices by the !
corporation-on to within ten per |
cent or pre-war prices-wiIl go
very long way towards clearing up |
the situation and getting business out
VI tue Jumps.
No Changes Here
In the mean time no changes are
reported for Crystal Falls. The In
dications at the Mckinney. Steel |
companys mines are that things are !
on the upgrade. Considerable work
about the engine house and the ma
chinery at the Odgers that was poet
with. The Bristol change has beer
and work at the Holhster
Mining company's properties Is look
Ing little better, II anything, than II
was two weeks ago.
Read the Ads -
Jalmar Johnson was chosen super
visor OF Bates township at the prIm-
A.lI In n. IL