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Show CHIEF CO! RAISES EMES' WAGES All Men Working on Property Prop-erty Receive 25 Cents Per Day Increase. Employees of the Chief Consolidated mine nave just been notified of an increase in-crease in wages which was put into effect ef-fect on the first day of tho present, mouth. Twenty-five cents per day has been added to the wages of every man employed by the company not only miuers but top men as well and according accord-ing to Cecil A. Pitch, this scale will prevail as long as !ead is bringing $4.50 or better and silver 56 cents or more. The notice of the increase has been posted at the mine. Nearlv 300 men are now working at tbe Chief. Two carloads of luniher and timber arrived this week for the new buildings build-ings which the Chief will erect iu the eastern end of the Tintic district, neat Homansville, where tho company will start a campaign of development work on ground wnich was recently acquired. ac-quired. A compressor house, board-iug board-iug house and other structures are tc be built. It is understood that the first work is to be taken up on the Homansville ground, which the Chief Consolidated company purchased from local mining men. This ground contains a large vein of manganese and th-re is not a more promising place for work in the entire eastern end of the Tintic district. dis-trict. Alex XI. XIcDonald, a local contractor, contract-or, will erect the buildings. Zinc ore is coming from the 1500 1700 and 1S0O levels of the Lower XI am moth mine and on the 1000 level somf copper-silver ore is being mined. Tinder ground conditions are quite lavorabli and the surplus in the treasury is bcinf increased each month. This company paid $ld, Odd to its shareholders lasi vear and then closed the year with bet ter than $5000 in the treasury, and it ii generally understood that some inon dividend money will be taken dowr within the next few months. Two carloads of ore were sent ou' this month from tbe copper-silver de posit on the 1000 level and another ca: will be loaded for shipment within tht next few davs. Superintendent Fouye: states that during the remainder of flu month the mine will ship three or fou cars of ore. On the 700 level he h driving a drift to cut the ore deposi which has already been followed fron the 1000 to 000 level by means of I raise. The Gold Chain people are stil worhint! through the Lower Xlnmmotl at a depth ot; 15O0 feet, and a few day; ago they shipped a car of nice lead silver ore. |