Show MAGA PRODUCERS ARE WAITING FOR TARIFF spokane wash jan 15 between and men have been laid off in the three big companies at valley stevens county fifty miles north of spokane the northwest company the american mineral production company and the american Refract ories company unfortunately this constitutes a real shutdown and nd not merely a curtailment as with the exception of the american mineral production company no production whatever is going on the few men still left being employed simply in making repairs the exception noted is the one feature of the situation the running of a small pioneer kiln in which is producing 11 1 1 some to tons a month of for the eastern flooring and stucco trade A large kiln is practically completed with a capacity of 1000 tons a I 1 month As washington has never before been used for this purpose the company is entering upon this branch of the business cautiously by operating only the small replica of its large kiln until such time as its brand of calcines has been tested through trial carload shipments by large eastern consumers austria is now so nearly supplying the entire demand from that quarter that the remaining orders accruing to the large plants are negligible and the shutdown shut down will undoubtedly last till a protective tariff is secured secured |