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Show END CP LABOR TROUBLE KTTONOPAH GRATIFYING Announcement which came yesterday i from Tonopah that there would not be any strike of miners, and that the troubles trou-bles which threatened to precipitate a conflict between employees and employers were settled, caused exceedingly great relief to Salt Lake operators. It had been feared by them for a week ; that there might ensue serious clashing 'of miners and operators throughout southern Nevada If the Tonopah confer- ences should fail to bring the elements together on mutual basis. A uniform scale of 4 for eight hours, including all classes of labor around the mines was - agreed to, holding for three years. , With labor troubles taken off the future fu-ture outlook, and contracts made with -the union lasting for three years, the - Sagebrush State should enter upon a season sea-son of unparalleled prosperity that may . never be equaled. Its duration, in fact. Is not considered likely to end for a generation, gen-eration, because the older camps are Just passing Into the lower ore bodies, the gophering era Is past In many cases and Is being followed by comprehensive development, de-velopment, and there are hundreds of new prospects Joining the productive lists . every week. These conditions, taken in conjunction with new districts wherein the mines promise richer bonanzas than did those discovered at any time within the last two years, forecast a gold yield in a few mors years which will bring. Nevada up to a point In excess of the record of yellow metal production that has been held for halt a decade by Colorado. The Centennial State's gold yield has been averaging about (27,000,000 annually, principally coming from the Cripple Creek district, which Is fifteen years old. . The Nevada gold-bearing camps, with not to exceed three years of age, are at this time turning Into the smelters at the rate of $8,000,000 to 17,000.000 per year. These figures Include none of the output of the stamp and cyanide mills, however, ' which does not pass through the smelters and will only be known when the annual mint reports are Issued. How great or how small it is cannot be learned exactly then, because thousands of dollars' worth of gold bars' are deposited at the banks by the mills and go unrecorded for many months. - But it is assuredly proven that the rate of production of the State already is fully one-quarter that of Colorado, about one-halt one-halt that of California, and equal to thj record of production which Alaska made during 1905, and which has just been an-nounced an-nounced officially. ' |