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Show MONTANA MINE CLOSES, Whisky Gulch Property Pails to Meet PvCgular Paydays. Special to The Tribune. LEWISTOWN. Mont,, .March 4. Whisky Gulch mines and mill, In Gilt Sdpo district, dis-trict, havo shut down, the company having hav-ing failed to meet tw6 regular jjaydays. Tho miners, numbering about flfty-slx, havo como to Lewlstown, and this morii-Ing morii-Ing a number of them Instituted suit In tho District court to recover $2CC7, while others aro getting out labor Hons, Thu total wages duo Is about 515,000. and whllo the aggregate of other debts Is not known, it must bo quite largo. Tho property prop-erty is owned by the Chicago-Montana Gold Mining company, organised under tho laws of Montana, and the stockholders stockhold-ers aro chlelly Chicago, St. Paul and Cincinnati Cin-cinnati men. Tho company met. with fair success for two or three years, but of late, it Is claimed, has not been making expenses. Tho headquarters of the company com-pany Is at St. Paul, whero G. M. Nelson, Nel-son, the president, resides. |