Show troops are to be scattered through out goldfield district to guard the mining es biti batum of M ne owners association t goldfield nevada the goldfield mine owners association has issued its ultimatum to the miners in gold field in the shape of a set of resola alons adopted at a meeting which was held last monday these resolutions embody the new scale of wages to be in vogue from this time on showing a lowering of the scale of about 20 per cent the reduction in wages is cally 1 per day for all classes of workmen the association further declares that members of the assoria alon will not in the future employ in or around his mine or around his mill any mamber of goldfield local union no of the western federation of miners or of any union connected with or affiliated with the aid western federation of miners and that all men hereafter employed by any mem her of this association in or around his mine or mill be required as a condition of his employment to sign a written contract which contains an agreement that the miner is not now and will not be during the time he is a member of the goldfield miners union no of the western federation of miners or of a union in goldfield or elsewhere that Is direct ly or indirectly affiliated with or has any connection of any kind nature or description biti said western fed of miners the resolutions further declare that it there Is not a sufficient number of men willing to go to work upon the terms of the resolutions before de cember 12 it will employ men from such sources as it may be able to se cure them another portion of the resolution is that it Is the sense of this assoria tion that the cost of living in the gold field mining district be reduced at least 20 per cent from what it now Is and unless this be done within a rea time this association will construct and operate a general mer chandise chand lse store or stores and board ing houses that will guarantee to the employed in and around the mines and mills a reduction to this or greater amount |