Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-12-20 | Page 8 | Rio Plata Company Feels Mexico Trouble

RIO PLATA COMPANY FEELS MEXICO TROUBLE Tho officers of tho Rio Plata Mining company have received information to I ho effect that the Insurrection hi Mexico had interfered with the operation of the mine and with the shipping of its product. pro-duct. The slate of Chihuahua. In the western part of which tho mlno Is sil-urilod. sil-urilod. was for a while the center of disturbances: dis-turbances: and the difficulties of mining were further complicated by Iho fact that one of the subordinate ofllcials of the company quit work to join tho revolutionaries. revo-lutionaries. Though It Is elghly-llvc miles from the terminus of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railway (Iho "Kill well lino"), tho mining company has to depend upon that road trj ship Its sdlvor most of the way. to the market. While the insurrection was In progress there Iho railway wa.s unable to move the freight offered. The scone of war has shifted now. and II Is understood that I'm Ins arc again moving regularly. Tho production of tho Ro Plata in November amounted to .09.372 ouncea of silver, from 12 to 15 per cent less than that, for the previous month.