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Show MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN It INTER-MOUNTA- IN is contended that the enforcement of ties the law would actually require them to work four shifts, and that the increased expense would force them to is likely that a Devoted to the Mining and Smelting Interests of suspend operations. It test of the law in the courts will be West. the brought about by the action of the Published Weekly by C. T. HARTE, Doom smelterg. 223 Atlas Block. Whatever the degree of folly exhibTEHMS: ited by legislators who undertake to (Payable in Advance.) regulate wages and hours of employOne Year $2.00 1.00 ment, and to ameliorate the condition Six Months 50 of Three Months workingmen by depriving them of 33 To England, Mexico and Canada, per year, their constitutional right to work as postage prepaid. long and as hard and to save as much Entered at the Salt Lake City Postoffice' as money as their inclinations direct, the second-clas- s matter. measure is now a law and must be San Francisco Office : 64 and 65 Merchants obeyed by all good citizens until reExchange, where this paper is kept on file- Adbe E. can made C. contracts with vertising pealed or held invalid by the courts. Dake, Agent. The mines .that are closed down and miners who lose employment or Salt Lake City, May 28, 1896. the suffer reduced wages may lay their misfortunes at the door of Utahs first The Eight-- H our Law. State Legislature. There is much speculation and no An example of the facility little anxiety concerning the probable with interesting which electricity lends itself to effect of the eight-holaw, which be- the transmission of power will shortly comes effective on Friday of next week. be seen on the premises of Smiths The present situation indicates that Dock South Shilds, says Lonthe measure will be productive of fully don company, There is at present as much distress and embarrassment thereEngineering. a floating dock, upon which are to employers and employees as was erected engines and pumps for the purpredicted by this journal when it op- pose of pumping out the water when posed its passage. Even those short- it is desired to float a vessel. The boilsighted legislators who most ardently ers which supply the steam are, howurged the passage of the bill now ex- ever, on the shore, the connection bepress doubts as to the wisdom of such ing made by flexible steam pipes In a legislation and are much less certain somewhat cumbrous and unsatisfacthat their foolish work will improve manner. A new dock of the same the condition of those intended to be tory will be installed, but in benefited. Some of the large mines, type case shortly is to be transmitted the power this such as the Ontario, Daly, Bullion-Bec- k from the shore by electric conductors. and Centennial-Eurek- a, have signified On the dock there will be erected eight an intention to pay the same scale of eighteen-inc- h centrifugal pumps, each wages heretofore prevailing for ten driven by an independent motor of hours work. These companies can sixty-brak- e horse-powe- r. The fan of conafford to do it, at least until the the pump and the armature of the is and of the law settled, stitutionality electric motor will be on so far so good. The men in their em- corresponding the same vertical shaft, extending from one no a benefit will receive that ploy the deck to the bottom of the floating will begrudge them. A majority of the structure, the weight being carried on miners engaged in development work ball bearings. The speed of rotation in all the districts will not be affected, will be 3S5 revolutions per minute, and as nearly all of this work is performed it is expected the plant will raise 16,000 shifts. But there are a tons of water per hour against a mean with eight-holarge number of mines, now paying head of eighteen feet. If this be real$2.50 to $3 per day for ten hours work, ized, it will be possible to raise the or feel to not do afford cannot that dock with a ship of the largest tondisposed to pay the same wages for nage in about half an hour. The geneight hours, and the men in their em- erating plant wdll be fixed on shore at ploy are inclined to resist any reduc- a distance of about 200 yards from the tion. Some of these properties have dock, and will comprise two sets of already been closed down, in order to direct-couple- d engines and dynamos avoid a possible strike, and this course capable of supplying 850 amperes at 500 will be pursued by others. Their em- volts. This current will be transmitted armored caployees, therefore, instead of securing through Fowler-Warin- g shorter hours, have no hours at all. bles to a cabin on the deck, from Several companies have adopted a rate whence a single attendant will be able, per hour, based upon present wages; by means of switches and regulating and the law that reduces their hours resistances, to control all the motors. will reduce their days wages. The total number of men thus adversely The wild-cmining stock boom is on affected far exceeds the number who its last legs, and one by one the mushwill derive benefit, leaving out of con- room exchanges are blinking out. Those sideration the losses to be suffered by at Pueblo and Victor, Colo., opened the owners of properties closed down. with brass band ceremonies last winter, The law, therefore, so far as it affects have suspended operations, and that the mines, will accomplish more harm at New York City, Inaugurated with than good. champagne and prayer, Is in the hands But against the smelters the law will of a receiver. Puny organizations at operate more severely than against the Chicago and other Eastern cities are mines, owing to the division of shifts struggling along with no business, and necessary in operating the furnaces. the supply of mining investment facili MINING REVIEW Inter-Mounta- in - ur ur at so 3 wdll be reduced to propositions not greatly in excess of the demand. These exchanges were organized for the purpose of taking advantage of 'the Cripple Creek excitement, and not to promote investments in substantial and legitimate mining enterprises. Where flcKinley Stands. The Mining Review recently made the statement that the financial views of Maj. McKinley were so obscured by uncertainty that his friends were enabled to present him as a gold standard candidate, a free coinage candidate, or an international straddler, as the sentiments of the various sections seemed to demand. The clouds of doubt have now rolled away, and there is no longer any possible question as to McKinleys position. The Mining Review has no politics, and It is not its purpose to criticise candidates or parties from a partisan standpoint, but the deep interest felt by Its readers in the silver question, and the position occupied by McKinley as the most conspicuous candidate for the Presidency now before the public afford ample justification for the presentation of his views. Mr. W. E. Curtis, the correspondent of the Chicawrell-kno- wn go Record, Interviewed the Ohio Napoleon a few days ago with more success than has attended the efforts of other representatives of the press. Mr. Curtis says: When you ask Maj. McKinley for his views on certain questions now, he refers you to his speeches, and in reply to my inquiry as to his attitude toward free coinage he handed me a verbatim report of a speech he made at Ada, O., W'hen he was running for Governor, and marked this passage: The Republican party, it says, "stands opposed to free and unlimited coinage of silver under existing conditions, and insists that that cannot be done safely until the great commercial nations of the world shall have, by concurrent action, fixed the ratio between gold and silver. The Republican party, therefore, stands for a dollar worth 100 cents, whether it shall be gold or silver or paper money. Free and unlimited coinage of silver would give the profits to the silver producers of the world, instead of to the Government of the United States. Free and unlimited coinage of silver invites the silver producers of the world to bring their 76 cents worth of silver to the mints of the United States, the Government agreeing to coin that silver into a silver dollar, and, by its fiat, compel people to take it for 100 cents; and the difference between 76 cents, which is the price of silver today, and 100 cents, which is the face value of the silver dollar, goes into the pockets of the silver kings of this country and of the silver kings of the world, and if we had had free and unlimited coinage in the last twelve years the $67,000,000 which was the seigniorage or gain to the Government, would have been divided among the silver producers of this country and the silver producers of the world. The Republican position Is if there is to be any prothat fit in this matter of money-ma- k to the ing, that profit should go Government of the United States, and not to any class of our citizens or any of our silver producers or silver producers anywhere in the world. When we sell our labor or our crops we want to get for it a money that is as good as the thing we give for that money, and we want the thing that we get to be unvary- - |