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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- INTER-MOUNTA- IN MINING REVIEW MINING REVIEW. N struck against a proposed reduction. Many of the men have left camp and the management expects to fill the places of the strikers at the new rate of $2.50 per day. The smelters are now working three the West. shifts of eight hours each and while Published Weekly by C. T. H ARTE, Boon the men earn less per day, the rate per 223 Atlas Block. hour has been advanced, and about one third more men are employed. TEKM8: It appears that where the profits of (Payable in Advance.) One Year $2.00 the mine have rendered it possible to 1.00 Six Months Three Months 50 do so, the mine owners have been willTo England, Mexico and Canada, $3 per year, ing to continue the old rate of wages postage prepaid. for eight hours work, but notwithEntered at the Salt Lake City Postoffice as standing this many men have been second-clas- s matter. thrown out of employment and many San Francisco Office : 64 and 65 Merchants Exchange, where this paper is kept on file. Ad- others have suffered reductions, and vertising contracts can be made with E. C. only a minority will derive benefit from Dake, Agent. the new law. Properties that continue the old rates will probably demand a Salt Lake City, June 4, 1896. higher standard of efficiency, and one result will be a weeding out of the alfalfa miner, as the incompetent Hours. Working Eight and inexperienced men are termed. Devoted to the Minins and Smelting Interests of Inter-Mounta- in . While the new eight-holaw is not effective until tomorrow, its provisions have already been complied with by a majority of the mines and all the smelters. Happily the fears of those who were apprehensive of serious and widespread trouble are not likely to be realized, and while in many instances great hardship has been entailed upon employers and employed, it is believed that the harmonious relations heretofore existing between them will not be strained. This is due, in great measure, to the liberal spirit displayed by the mine owners, many of whom believe that an underground miner should not be asked to work more than eight hours and that a good miner can perform as much labor in that time as In ten hours. Some who are not convinced upon the latter point are willing to to give the men a fair trial. If the miners pursue a conciliatory course and perform their work with honest regard to the interests of their employers there will be no serious trouble. This, except in a few Isolated instances, they seem disposed to do. The situation In the four principal camps may be summed up as follows: At Park City, where the greatest number of men are employed, all of the large properties have adopted the eight hour schedule, with no reduction in wages, and work will proceed without interruption. At Tintic two or three of the big mines will pay ten hours wages for eight hours work, some of the others will find it convenient to close down the mines and devote their attention to machinery repairs for the present, and some have announced an intention to reduce wages in proportion to the reduction of hours. At Bingham one or two of the large mines have been shut down until the constitutionality of the law has been decided and a majority of the others will reduce wages, which may result In strikes. At Mercur some of the mines decided to reduce wages and others are willing to continue the old rate, but some of the men resolved to demand a minimum rate of $2.75 for eight hours, or more than they were previously receiving for ten hours. This may affect one or two of the leading mines. The Horn Silver miners at Frisco have ur The ftidsummer Carnival. An event that just now somewhat overshadows all others in this intermountain region is the approaching Midsummer Carnival, to be held in this city July 2nd, 3rd and 4th. The projectors have mapped out a scheme in which are combined something of the features of a patriotic celebration, an industrial exhibit and an uproarious frolic, and propose to invest the whole with a splendor never before witnessed In these valleys. It will be to Salt Lake what La Fiesta is to Los Angeles, and the Festival of Mountain and Plain Is to Denver, and in point of elaborate magnificence those events will be equaled, if not surpassed. There will be a Queen of the Carnival, Who, with her maids of honor, representing each county in the State, will make her entrance on the 2nd and, amid all the pomp and circumstance of a monarchs court, take possession of the city. Her majesty will then sit in state and rule Zion for the remainder 3 the opportunity to visit Utah, the home of the Saints, a land of gold and silver, where crags and peaks and nestling valleys combine to form a scene of enchantment, around which is gathered the charm of thrilling historic associations. That the people of this and States will attend in neighboring thousands goes without saying. Idaho Mining Exchange has found the publication of its mining journal to be a thankless undertaking. The first number, which was devoted to the Boise gold belt, wras hooted by the press of other sections of the State on account of the inelegance of its The mechanical make-uThe second number, issued last month, covered Elmore and Boise counties, and while its typography was improved, Boise county accuses the exchange of glaring misstatements concerning the mines of that region, and believes they were purposely belittled in the interest of Boises gold belt. With all this trouble upon its hands so close at home, what will happen when the Exchange undertakes to advertise the Coeur dAlenes? p. . The publisher of a Butte paper, when asked why he never permitted any news concerning Utah mines to be published, replied that there is too d d much Butte money going into Mercur now, adding that the Butte merchants objected to any mention of mining operations in Utah. The great mining camp of Butte, the greatest mining camp in America, is surely big enough and prosperous enough to be generous to her neighbors, and her citizens and press should strive to outgrow this petty jealousy of other sections. Cripple Creek mines are now paying dividends at the rate of a little over one million dollars per annum, which fact the Colorado press considers of sufficient importance to merit conspicuous notice. Utah listed mines are dividing profits to the amount of $152,-00- 0 per month, or nearly two millions endof the day, the ceremonies per annum, and the Utah press has litconcert a with grand patriotic ing tle to say about it. It may be added Tabernacle at the given by native sons that the number of Utah dividend payand daughters. A floral festival will ers is certain to be Increased during be the feature of the second day. The the year, and the same may be said of ten thousand school children of the Cripple Creek. and a floral elect will partiQueen city The present season promises to be thq cipate in a floral parade. In the evening a grand ball In honor of the Queen most important in the history of Idaho of the Carnival will be held at the Salt mining. Reports of new discoveries and Lake Theater. On the Fourth the increased production come from the grand parade and other crowding Boise Basin, Boise Gold belt, Florence events of the carnival will occur. Gov- and Yahk districts and other sections, and the citizens of the State are making ernment and State troops, civic societies and citizens will participate in the a more intelligent effort to advertise parade and the floats, in addition to their resources than ever before. Idaho unusual spectacular and grotesque ef- offers a rich field to prospectors, mining fects, will represent the progress of this operators and investors. region in the industries and the arts. Comptroller Blades of the city of DeIn the evening there will be a parade en masque, devoted to fun and frolic, troit, Mich., writes the following to the am and a pyrotechnic display that will New York Financial News: 'T feel staunch Republican, but I bathe the peaks of the Rockies in fire. ain pretty soul that if McKinley, Reed, my On the whole the Midsummer Carnival one of them, is elected will be an event unique in the history Morton, any this year on a gold platform, it will be of the region. the last Republican President this The railroad companies have promwill see. ised lower rates than have ever before generation The Mining Review, although it has been given in Utah and there is reason to expect that a large number of people not yet completed its first volume, has in the far East will take advantage of ample cause for gratification in the inter-mounta- in |