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Show LAKE SECTION il OVER IF 1HL August Output Nine Million Pounds, and Some Mines Are Still Idle. The production of "Lake copper during August Is given at approximately 9,000.-000 9,000.-000 pounds, as compurcd with a normal August Is given at approximately 9,000.-potindfi. 9,000.-potindfi. This decroaso was naturally expected ex-pected as tho result of the strike, which has been In force since July 2.1. In a dispatch to a Boston paper the following conditions at tho mines were disclosed during the second week of the current month: There Is practically no copper on hand at any of the docks here. The clcan-up since tho strike has been gradual but none the less complete. Several of the mines had enough to make deliveries on contracts which had to bo fulfilled, but in the majority major-ity of easos the holding of cbpper was for an unexpected advance in the price, which appeared shortly after the commencement of the strike. The Cnlumet fc TTecla smelter is the only plant that did not find It necessary to close. They had a lot of unrefined unre-fined mineral on hand when the strike started and rjulte an amount that might have been shipped to Buffalo. This was all handled here at the plant at Hubbell. and the resumption of operations at the Calumet & Hecla mine, resumption which started Inside In-side of two weeks following the announcement an-nouncement of the strike, has furnished fur-nished tho smelter with a limited output of mineral regularly. This amount has been added to regularly each day as more men go to work, and larger shipments of copper rock go to the stamp mills. While the strike gradually Is peter- 1 ing out. the difficulties nt the Mohawk, Mo-hawk, Ahmeek, North Kearsarge and Wolverine mines are not going to end for some time. Judging from the Indications Indi-cations at tho present time. Tho strikers at these mines arc very strong Socialists and their leaders aro very influential in that movemont. The majority of them are Finns and Croa-tlans. Croa-tlans. They have had this Socialistic doctrine drummed Into their ears for months and months, and It has made such an Impression that they refuse to believe anybody or anything. Tho strike leaders tell these men that none of the mines are working, that tho Calumet & Hecla is not producing any copper at all, thut no men are at work at any of the other properties, and Insist that they must not believe a word of the data that Is published in the English newspapers. The strike leaders dominate the Finnish newspapers news-papers protty effectually. These men arc going to be the hardest to get back to their work. At Hancock, where the Qulncy mine Is located, there is a very strong party of the same kind where the Finn Socialists own a daily newspaper and have a largo public hall. In the past few days a large number num-ber of the strikers have departed for other mining districts. Thev arc beginning be-ginning to realize the difficulties they are going to be up against whether the strike wins or loses. Many of the English miners who went to the iron district when the strike first started are returning and resuming their places. This is particularly true at th Champion and Trimountaln mines. At Calumet a good sized delegation of Cornish miners came from the old country yesterday, and they reported that a good many more would follow soon. It will be the first of tho new year before tho local mines can hope to get back to normal output, although al-though it is more than likely that the Calumet &. Hecla will be operating full force within sixty dayB if tho Increaso in the working force continues con-tinues as notably large bb it has lately. |