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Show REDUCE THE FORCE. Salt Lake Tiibune. Last night's arrivals from camp le-port le-port a steady i eduction of the forces employed on the properties of the Con. Mercur Mining company, and tiat the new year has begun with the payioll reduced to about 300 names-, the output of the territory, which has added nearly near-ly JIO.000,000 to the nntlon's supply of gold, to about f00 tons of ore pel day. Until such time as a solution has been found for certain dilemmas, snld a miner who came In from camp to seek employment elsewhere, the management manage-ment has decided that retrenchment Is the better policy, and It Is this, It Is said, that has Inspired the i eduction of the foices underground. The trouble has not originated, It is claimed, with the quantity of oie now blocked out, but with its composition, the sulphides or niftnlcnl ores having materially In-cunsed In-cunsed during the past year. However, How-ever, assurances of relief aie coming from a new chunnel which Superintendent Superintend-ent Hrown has been opening up, nnd with this conditions should Improve. At the mill. It Is said, hut four of the battel y of nine toasters are now being operated, and that this will continue until the volume of oxidized oie Is Increased. In-creased. Theie wh n story on the curbstone during the afternoon that the earnings or sixty days have been less than the cost of operation, but this Is dh( ('edited ('edit-ed by the more prominent among local Intti ests, who Insist Hint tho report oilginntes with those who have shoittd the company's shales. The latest llg-ureH llg-ureH to which the public has had access were those which showed that In JU03 the gioss earnings, amounted to $1,019,-.100. $1,019,-.100. Iteports f i out the animal meeting recently held In New Jersey will be forwarded' for-warded' to the shareholders in pnmphlet form nt n later day. |