Show washington the valley company whose property is located at valley is planning to install a plant for the manufacture of its product eastern people who have been purchasing the raw material are now buying the manufactured product necessitating a change za in the policy of the company the quila gold mining company owning a gold silver property in the republic dis brict has resumed operations after being idle for several years the first car of ore taken from the upper workings has been shipped and work will be resumed in the lower levels of the mine as soon as they can be freed of water wate r ore bearing gold silver and copper in commercial quantities has been discor discovered ered near nespelem Nes pelem by A A kimball a timber cruiser mr kimball discovered some slide rock of a pear green reen color that attracted his attention an assay of the rock showed good values he traced the ledge for 1200 feet and it is feet wide in some places the surrounding ground is rough and broken and nothing on the surface shows any deposit of minerals the ore was exposed by a slide the deposit is about nine miles north of nespelem Nes pelem the united copper mining compana Com pang operating a property near chewelah Chew elah is the first of the big mining companies so far reported that has cut wages since the signing of the armistice the reduction is a substantial one as follows miners skip tenders tim bermen and hoist men from 5 a day to muckers duckers and motormen from to blacksmiths from to blacksmiths helpers from to fillmen and carpenters from to 4 we worked in 1918 for the men and the government but this year we will operate for the benefit of the stockholders explained president conrad we made about last year but had a hard struggle to do it the best part of it is that after explaining the situation to the men they saw the justice of our position and of seventy five men employed only five left |