Show TONOPAH SHUTDOWN Senior Company in the Big Camp Suspends Sus-pends All Operations From Tonopah Nev came a bulletin during the afternoon that upon an order from the president of the Tonopah Mining Mi-ning company operations underground have been suspended and the army of persons for which employment has been provided indefinitely laid off The order or-der that came from Philadelphia where the general offices of the big company are located and to which Superintendent Superintend-ent SI bert was recently summoned by the t Eastern management descended upon the camp with terrific effect and with winter now on fear Is expressed that some distress will follow That the condition will be prolonged is not generally gen-erally believed by Tonopah interests in this city On the contrary it IB not long since that thc Tonopah company entered en-tered Into a contract with the American Amer-ican Smelting and Refining company for the delivery to the latter of a certain tonnage of ore and it Is not likely that its terms are to be disregarded I was urged during the afternoon that the minority shareholders who have been buzzing around the control with considerable activity had precipitated the order when they demanded a statement state-ment on the financial condition of the company and a revision of the salary list which it Is id has been levying on the output for over 00000 a year I this before horizon at which the actual labor begins Is reached No one will entertain for a minute that anything to distress the company has superinduced the order or that it will be of duration longer than Is necessary neces-sary to adjust the differences between the minority and the control Certainly Certain-ly there Is nothing In the contretemps to discredit the physical conditions of To nopah or that can detract In the remotest remot-est from its prestige us a camp o bonanzas bo-nanzas The unpleasant feature of the situation is that the miners are momentarily mo-mentarily out of work and that the salaried sal-aried list is threatened |