Show INCREASE IN MATERIAL AND LABOR por for the use of the committee of western ore producers which has been appointed to visit washington in connection with the movement to be taken by the government to regulate the price of silver or to fix a price at which it shall be sold different mining companies of this section have prepared statements showing the comparative costs of material and labor at the present time as compared to those ruling in 1913 one of these statements from a bingham mining company which is probably a fair sample of the statements issued by other similar organizations shows a percentage of increase inci ease as follows per cent lagging 49 timber 25 steel drill 53 mild 67 spring 58 powder 78 fuse 65 caps labor machine men 38 miners 45 muckers duckers 45 freight and treatment charges per ton 63 haulage unchanged power unchanged office expense unchanged |