The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-13
BUTTE MINES WILL SOON
HAVE MAXIMUM FORCE
coEUR D'ALENES SOON BE ON 4
NORMAL PRODUCTION
BASIS.

Within a few weeks there will be
employed in the mines Of Butte 10000
men, the maximum capacity force for
the mines of that city. This means
that 5000 men will have been added TO
the payrolls since June l. when 49,
600 were employed.
At maximum employment capacity
1892, 900 per week. On June 1 the
payroll amounted to S275,OOO per week
or the sum of $1,1OO,OOO a month or
100000 per year for a town to
which the federal census bureau cred
it's less than $4,000 inhabitants. With
the approach to the maximum capac-
ity payroll, which will be reached
within the next two weeks if the men
are available, the annual payroll of
the mines of the city will total SIS -
100000.
The largest employer of labor is the
Anaconda Copper Mining company,
with an output of 300 100000 pounds
of copper annually. In years past the
marketing of this huge amount of the
red metal was no small task. Today
the Anaconda company has one Gus
toner which requires this entire out
put-and so per cent mOre-to supply
its annual needs.
The Anaconda company produces
300 900 pounds of zinc (electrolytic)
annually The American Brass COM
pany will use the entire zinc output in
less than one week
Capacity employment in the mines
and a permanent market for the out
put of the Butte hill means not only
steady work for the 10000 miners,
but likewise steady employment for
$500 smeltermen at Anaconda and
Great Falls, 1900 more railroad men
on the B., A. & p. and the transcon-
lines; 400 more Montana coal
workers, repairmen. supply men,
weighers, timekeepers and
accountants, making a grand total of
about $4,000 workers who find en-
ployment as a result of the operations
of one single mining company, among
the group of companies in the Butte
district
With the resumption of activities in
the mines and smelters of the Butte
district the entire state and for that
matter the entire northwest feels a
direct benefit. The products of the
farm and garden and fruit ranch must
feed this army of workers while the
supply houses in all parts of the coun
try are called upon to keep the wheels
in motion through installation of new
and repair of old.
What has occurred in Butte is grad
ually coming about in the Occur
d'Alenes, although on not so extensive
a scale. Under normal conditions the
Occur dAlenes should furnish en-
ployment for about 5000 men. With
miners now being employed for the
and Tamarack, which will
furnish employment for from 500 to
500 men, there remains but one of the
large producers idle. With a steady
in the zinc market there
is a probability that the Callahan will
soon join the other mines in their ac-
tivities and furnish employment to its
normal force of approximately 500
miners The Bunker Hill mine and
smelter at Kellogg has never ceased
It's activity, maintaining the normal
output without interruption and is the
largest single employer Of labor in
the district. Enlargement of opera
lions at the smelter will naturally fol-
ow with the increased tonnage avail
lble from the mines of the district
whose ores are sent to that point
From every present indication there
will be no let up Of operations in any
If the mines of the district in the
lear future but the feeling exists that /
he outlook for business in every line
S better and that the demand and
Use for all kinds of metals will stead
iy increase.