Show THE ASPEN MINES The Superintendents Say They Will Not be Closed Down CONSIDER TION FOR THE MINERS Their Discharge Would Entail JIucli Suffering If Mlver Continues Low Working Forces May boEcduced ASPEN Colo April Considerable anxiety bas been caused to miners business busi-ness men and in fact all classes of people i In Aspen who are dependent solely on tho j production of our mines on account of j tho price of silver Rumors wero rife regarding I re-garding the closing down of several properties prop-erties whereby hundreds of men would be thrown out of employment In MOW 01 I theso facts an Associated Press representative I represent-ative called upon various mine managers and elicited from them expressions upon the vital subject Mr Fred Bulkley manager man-ager of the Aspen Mining and Smelting company was first seen and said No wo will not close down for the present at any rate A few men iv era laid off but nt many Our chief production at the present is a high grade lead ore carrying ten to twenty ounces of I silver Of course so long as lead keeps up we can ship this ore because it carries but littlo silver being a desirable smelting ore The treatment charge is light and there fore manes it profitable to ship You can state positively that there is no intention at present of closing down Dr Henry Paul manager of tho Aspen mine says The owners or rather those I representing the owners of the Aspen I mfno held a meeting in the city very recently I I re-cently and after carefully looking over the i situation and taking into consideration the fact that to close down mount idle men and the causing of want in a great many fam I lies decided to operate the mine and meet a loss rather than lay ot several hundred men a majority 01 whom are supporting I families I would say however that incase in-case silver continues at the present price any great length of time we would be compelled to cease operations Manager C E Palmer of the Mollio the Molo Gibson said Yes work will go ahead on the Nellie as usual Wo realize fully the great loss which will be incurred by continuing our production but we prefer shipping ore and keeping men in employ ment to closing down Still we are sure in i case silver does not advance in tho near future to reduce the working force This 1 do not think and certainly trust will not De necessary us I am confident silver will soon bo considerably higher Frank Bulkley general manager of the Bushwhacker and Park Regent said The Regent working forco has been slightly decreased on account of bad roads and the low price of silver Wo will of course continue a steoEy production but only a sufficient amount of ore will be shipped to carry the necessary expenses Vhen silver advances to a reasonable price our production will be from thirty to thirtyfive tons per day The Bushwhacker you know of course is only showing small lots of ore which is principally averaging 39 per cent Manager ewberry of the Aspen Con Apen tact Mr Kay of thoArgentum and Durant Dur-ant Compromise and several other managers mana-gers were seen who mado practically the same statement regarding their future ac tion as those already given He said it was to tho everlasting credit of mine own caB that when an emergency did arise I whereby to discontinue operations would be a money making scheme they possessed I sufficient manhood to rise above these mercenary temptations and decided to go ahead and if possible avert a calamity which would have affected all classes of business aside from the immediate effect miners the closing down would have had upon efect I I |