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Show COEUR D'ALENE MINES NEAR NORMAL OUTPUT Production of the Ooe-ur d'Alene mines is rapid!'.- Hearing normal, according to information received from the district. Mining! men familiar with conditions In that region say that by the first of December De-cember production will bo at Its former ' rthjthtly more than a month has rlnpsed since the strike of tne international union of MineMlil and Smelter Workers was called off on Octo!er S and all of the mines affected have resumed operations at both, mine and mills. The fear of a shortage of workers with which to operate the mines and mills of the district has been dissipated by the application of several hundred miners for ' employment during the last month, and practically all the mines urc approaching ' normal. Tho last of the mines to re-, re-, sume operations was the Hercules, which He ' indlcapped by gas In the mine owing ow-ing to a fire In nni- of the old slopes luring the strike and which delayed result re-sult ptlon pecdlrfB Its venlllntlqn.. These difficulties have now been overcome ntid operations are resuming a normal point nt that property. Following the resumption of the mines, several ore trains on both the O -W. R. A N. and Northern Pacific, which were discontinued during tho strike, linve been reinstated and the district Is fast put-tlng put-tlng on its old-time air of Industry. The re-establlshment of the central mines employment em-ployment office Is facilitating the placing plac-ing of miners and mill men at the various va-rious mine", according to reports. Faoh day the employment office Is crowded with men seeking employment In the tntr.es ttfid nn fnst ::) tllCV Can 1C fX- nmlned ns to their Qualifications they arc sent on to otic or the other mines of the district, thus avoiding dwlay and. cx-penso cx-penso to the miner In traveling from one mine to the other In seeking employment. |