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Show RELIEF LEGISLATION . FOR UiHG IS URGED ThU Industry U Declared to 1 Have Suffered More Than Any Other WAHHINOTOV. Jen. I. I-egteletlon In behalf be-half of th mining industry -waa urged by Representative Valle of Colorado In a apeech i In lha house. "The mining Industry will ask for relief by tariff legislation, by the i McFadde fM eadss and premium bill. and : br other measures, aa tha Industry haa suffered more from tha war anil war prlcea than any other single buelneaa declared Mr. Valle. He eald tha mining- Industry wn int artohly conducted, at a loss, aa every mine haa en unproduetlva etage at Ma beginning. be-ginning. Mine development mual proceed, he added, on faith and hop of the miner an I (ha charity of hu creditor "May we nt rely In e-me email degree on tha charity of thla great government, which own ao much fo the ftth and hope of tha miner?" Mr. Valle aald. " onlr a etc for a ehnr-ity ehnr-ity which cost a nothing to tha for-mmnt tn behalf of mines which have aa yet procured pro-cured nothing for their posswora." Mr. Valle aald. bovver, that tha Industry n not ."shot to pieces." The priea of gold aa measured by commodities was way down, but be said that all mlnerala now bring (lie miners much less then tha Cost of production. pro-duction. Tha cost of machinery, power, ful and all auppllea used In mining have nt fallen In price. Hmeltlng and transportation transporta-tion charges are very bih. Home railroads and spurs have been discontinued In mining min-ing regions and snlt for Junk. These conditions con-ditions hare compelled many mines to shut .Invn. and when a tniri it prosed. irniMtii that capital Invested therein and Ma future productivity are forever loat, and the. mine property soon losrs Ms value, fills with watr, the U inhere rot and tha mlna caves in. ptme.-Monf. Jan. I FotTowtn tha announcement an-nouncement of the wage reduction. John Ulllte. manager of ml ore for ths Anaconda Copper Mining company, stated that the companies operating tn tha Ilutte district hail been forced to take such a aten be- catjse of copper market conditions. lie said: "Cnder present conditions every pound of copper and sine mined in the Butte dletrlt la produced at a Iom. There haa been no ; market for the metal and with tha enor-moua enor-moua surplus of copper and sine In the country and the low price of the metal an adjustment or the industry to present conditions con-ditions became Imperative. "Wage srsles were Increased substantially during the war In all mining d 1st rites, being predicated upon tho high cost of living. With the living eoats coming down we are advlaed that the wage earners are raron-clled raron-clled to I he pseaent situation, aad so far as we havs learned the miners In other districts hare acceptd the reductions with out protst. All of the Ilutte companies will usa discrimination In the mstter of employment. em-ployment. With many more men than there m, 4., Kb that im rut nlaa Tarlll Itltmnl In favor the man with families, That has al-waye al-waye been our policy." Mr. nillle said It would be Idle to Speculate Spec-ulate upon the Immediate prospects for the copper metal Industry. Much, ha declared, would depeid upon conditions la Kurope. When these cauntrtee are able agala to come Into the metal market a revival of mining could' be expected. At the present tlm continued Mr. .Gillie, the domestic demand, so far aa the Anaconda can see. shows no indications o fany Immediate expansion |