Show MUlES A ARE LIFTED fROM ANACONDA MINES MIMES Mont April Apri 16 With 16 the exception of several hundred men employed employed em em- on pumps operations in the mines of or the Anaconda Copper Alin Mm- Mm Un- Un ing company in the Butte Hutte Jute district are areat areat areat at a complete standstill Even liven the mules have been lifted from the depths and placed In the tho Anaconda pasture near Georgetown west of Anaconda There I ii is considerable ore ore in the thc bins at the Washoe smelter of ot Anaconda and until this is cleared the plant wilt will willbo wil be bo kept operating Within a week weel ItIs it itis itis is expected this tonnage tonnage wilt will wil be he disposed disposed dis dis- posed of and the smelter then will vill wi be bc bein bein in readiness to be shut down The wire plant at Great 1 Falls a 1 s Mont of Anaconda Is said to he working on ona a wire order for the Western Vestern Union Telegraph company amounting In to total total to- to tal tat to pounds lOUnds this wire to tobe tobe tobe be used in the rewiring t the e tel telegraph graph coast s Iron lines on the Pacific Hundreds of or minors miners are leaving Butte nute for the farming arming districts or or oro goIng goIng go- go o- o Ing Into camp alon along the numerous fishing ft streams reams of the state or else embarking upon prospecting trips Speculation is rife in hi local producing circles as a as to the length of the shutdown shutdown shutdown shut shut- down of the mines with the opinions ranging rang from three months at the thelast least to more I Even Kven ven If It Anaconda wore were dis disposed disposed dis posed to resume at the end nd of three months before it i could hope to at attain attain at- at tam tain anywhere near nor normal production l probably another two tir or three months would ela elapse e. e |