The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-05-17
WESTERN UNION RECORD
BY MANAGER
MANY DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME
AND MINE PAYING FOR
DEVELOPMENT.

The annual meeting of stockholders
of the Western Union Mining company
will be held at the Office of the com
pany in the Insurance building on
Monday, June 4. In anticipation of
the meeting and in order to advise
stockholders in advance of the affairs
of the company, Ben l.. Collins, secre-
tary and manager of the company,
has issued a letter under date of May
which contains much interesting in
formation regarding this very inter
esting property. Upon taking over
direct management of the Western
/ Union, Mr. Collins was confronted
with the necessity of doing much dead
work as a result of the bad condition
in which the mine was left by the
leasers, which involved much time
and heavy expense. However he has
overcome these difficulties, placed the
mine in safe condition, added new
equipment, accomplished much devel-
opment work and at the same time
kept ore shipments moving to an ex-
tent that covered all expenses and
maintained a substantial balance in
the treasury. But in spite of this rec
ord of success, Mr.. Collins finds that
efforts are being made to discredit his
work and introduce an element of
discord in the approaching meeting of
the stockholders To this he makes
the following reference in his letter:
From the propaganda being circu-
lated among the stockholders by what
appear to be paid propagandists. /
feel sure we will have a contest in
this meeting. They are working I'M
der the guise of miners or interested
stockholders and their purpose seems
to be to get the stockholders divided
and to fighting among themselves. ]
have in mind one person who has been
working steadily spreading propagan-
da among the stockholders for more
than two months and ii is hard to
believe that an ordinary miner would
do this unless he is paid by somebody
back of the screen You can easily
get all the facts about the mine and
it's management and ! am depending
on your good judgment that you viii
not fall for any of this cheap Kaiser
PHI" propaganda. The probable mo-
tive is to get your stock as cheaply
as possible and finally control the
mine. A scheme like this can not win
if you hold your stock and we all
stick together"
Record Speaks for Itself.
Continuing, Mr. Collins in his letter
to the stockholders gives a summary
of what has been accomplished. He
says in part:
"Since November 1920 and without
assessing the stock nor calling for any
outside money. your board of direct
ors and manager have succeeded in
doing. or causing to be done, more
than $500 feet of development work,
consisting of drifting. prosecuting,
raising and sinking. Ten additional
claims have been patented. A new
compressor plant with $500 feet of 3
and 4-inch air line has been installed
Two carloads of shaft timbers and
tagging, to be used in sinking 200 feet
are on the ground and paid for. The
buildings have all been re-roofed. A
great deal of retimbering has been
done on the main tunnel to make il
safe for mining. All of the old cars
we're overhauled at the foundry and
four new cars purchased. Several
thousand feet of rails, air pipe and