| Show PORTLAND SHUT DOWN I Labor Troubles Cause Big1 Colorado Property to Close Colorado Springs Cob May 16Tile Portland mliio rmploylng 700 men was closed down Indefinitely at 3 oclock this I afternoon owing to the trouble between I tile company and six miners unions of the camp over the employment of nonunion non-union mon A conference between representatives of the company and the unions was held In this city today but lolled to reach an agreement The Portland has been open making no discrimination between workmen but f paying the union scale Lately lie com i plaint has been made that union miners I were being displaced by I nonunion men and that wages were being reduced In some departments A few days ago tho I unions demanded that tlu mimic bo unionized m union-ized This was refused ut the meeting hero today It Is not believed that the troublo will spread toother mines In lime Cripple Creek districtS district-S Strike at Clark Mines Los Angeles Cnl May 16ror1 was received ut the ofllcc of 1 Ross Clark today that the minors employed In thi Clark coal mines near Gallup N M have gone on a strike About 100 men are Involved In-volved Most of the coal produced In these mines Is consumed by time Verde Copper Mining companys plant at Je rome Ariz This property also belongs to Senator Clark S Mining Notes Five cars of ore wore marketed by tho Humbug of Tin tic yesterday Horace Eldredge of the Grand Central left for camp again last night Three cars of ore from the Carlsa of Tlntlc wero marketed yesterday A car of matte from the Dixie smelter arrived from St George yesterday Manager Loose of the Grand Central was up from that Tlntlc bonanza yesterday yester-day The Yankee Consolidated of Tlntlc delivered de-livered another lot of ore at the Ger monla smelter yesterday The new air compressor and hoisting plant for the Snowllako of Tlntlc Is now on lie ground and will be In operation In early June Director Bayly of the Blnphnm Copper S and Gold Mining company has returned from camp very much plcascd with the conditions underground S L G Phelps Stokes of the Nevada Mining Mi-ning company has returned to town after af-ter vlsltlpg1 the properties nt Austin and Berlin In Lander county S Manager Duncan McVIchlo of the Blnglmm Copper and Gold Mining com panys property has been compelled to seek his bed with fever Charlie Lammersdorf Is up from Gold mountain and reports preparations to resume re-sume work at the Levier iow In progr ssS although the snow Is yet very heavy Superintendent Andrew Mnyberry of tho United Stales companys Ilnjhnm bonanza bo-nanza was In town yesterday and repcne seventy men employed In the blocking out of ore Yesterdays receipts at the Taylor it Brunton sampler consisted of nlno card of ore from Tlntlc two from Blngham two from Nevada and a car of matte from St George Superintendent Robert Brown of the Centennial Eureka was among the visitors visit-ors from Tlutic yesterday In time Totro he Is now running on mineral for the S main ore body rile Joe Bowers directors met yesterday yester-day afternoon and engaged the service of Congressman Sutherland to adjust certain cer-tain matters affecting lltlo to the com panys ground How serious the Haws In It was not divulged Secretary Snyder of the Swansea reports 5 re-ports about forty carloads of ore now at that Silver City property awaiting shipment ship-ment to the smelter It Is understood that a new contract with the smelter is to be mado next month The Inability of counsel to complete the complaint In the JCGOCCO action by the BullionBeck against the Eureka Hill and Gemini of Tlntlc prevented the forwarding for-warding of It to Nephl last night Counsel Coun-sel say It will bo filed today President Joseph A Coram of the Blngham Gold Mining company will leave Boston for Salt Lake on Monday next the big DalLon Lark deal to bo closed up on his arrival and the distribution among the shareholders to follow Henry M Crowther of the Tlewaukeo mine at Blnglam reports sl < ty men employed em-ployed at present with shipments of crude ore to begin todnv Tho big pav meat on the deal by which the property goes to Michigan Investors will maliuo on June 1st Lee Pansohoff and Frank Shlrer arc reported to have made a big strike In a property owned by them at Blngham It Is a copper and gold proposition and Is i said to assay high the vela being three foot wide J he owners propose to organize or-ganize company under the name of the llks Gold and Silver Mining company com-pany A certificate of Incorporation of the BcstonYerraco Copper Mining company was Illcd1 with the Secretary of Slate yesterday Tile capitalization Is 500000 In shares of the par value of JL 1 each Charles T Blrchard Is president of the company Sylvester B Illnkloy Jr vIce prcsldont Arthur II l I Folger rfccrclary who with George T Spear and Churictt 1C Pike form lie directorate The object of the company Is to acquire and develop de-velop mining properties |
