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Show I The Market and the Mines I I It may be the atmosphere, or it may be tho temperature! Whatever it Is it makes men feel more like going Ashing than pounding a drill. Now, it is a fact known to all psychologists that when a person feels like fishing and is obliged to work, his temper improves inversely as the square of tlie work and directly as tho prospect of a bite. This natural law has been operating freely at widely separated points during the past two weeks' and has given rise to clashes between men and their employers, over apparently trivial matters. Fortunately a few cans of bait and a few casts of the line have in most cases paved the way to a reconciliation. e & 0 The first manifestation occurred over in Nevada Ne-vada when tho messenger force in the "Western Union Telegraph office went on strike for higher wages. The Industrial Workers of the World, with whom the messengers are affiliated, threatened threat-ened to close the office. For a time it looked as though the miners, who are also affiliated with the Industrial Workers, would be drawn into a conflict. Governor Sparks visited the camp, conferred with both parties and mediated so effectively that the miners decided to stand aloof from the quarrel. quar-rel. Thereupon the original trouble was promptly settled. Then came the walkout at the Daly-West at Park City because of the request made by the management that the men should try lamps Instead In-stead of candles under ground. After a few days' rest the strikers got in good humor again and went back to the mine prepared to use any old kind of light and the management, not to be outdone out-done in reasonableness, gave out candles as of yore. About the same time the spirit of the season sea-son manifested itself at Tintic. Thirty-two men employed at the Scranton mine quit because they did not like the Chinese cook, and the Eureka Miners' union made a friendly request for a uniform uni-form scale of wages on a $3 instead of a $2.50 basis. Indications are that the request will "be generally complied with. & & An outbreak of the "want-to-go-fishing" feeling at Bingham at one time portended unfortunate consequences. For several years past it has been the custom of the union miners to hold an annual outing. These outings have been arranged without with-out consulting the mine managers and amounted to the closing of tho properties without notice. Believing that they had some rights In the premises prem-ises the large operators have set their faces against the purely ex parte arrangement by the miners and this year a warning was given that men who failed to appear for work on Wednesday would be discharged. As a consequence the men I to whom the warning was given resigned their jobs and were paid off Tuesday night. Fully 1,000 miners attended the demonstration at the Salt Palace and Bingham was temporarily abandoned'. When they returned to the mines Thursday there was a readjustment of jobs in many cases, but all the miners found work and all trouble has been averted for the present at least. Tho undeniable fact that the demand for good miners is greater than the supply partly accounts for the extreme independence shown by the craft in all parts of the field. & & In addition to this difficulty transportation and power troubles have been upon the nenves of tho Bingham mine operators. The four locomotives of the Copper Belt have been laid up for repairs and the electrical energy of the Telluride Power company com-pany has been interrupted by an accident to the transmission lines. The Utah Copper and tho Ohio Copper companies have been the chief sufferers. suf-ferers. The Silver Shield has installed a new six-drill six-drill compressor and is negotiating for tho purchase pur-chase of the Boston Con. testing mill. Boston, by the way, is more than holding its own in the stock market and Its return to $30 a share has led to a belief that dickering is again under way for its consolidation with the Utah Copper company under un-der the management of the Guggenheims. Others attribute the advance in prices to purchases by the English stockholders. $ & & The announcement that General Manager D. C. Jackling has awarded the contract for the electrical elec-trical equipment of the Utah Copper company mill at Garfield calls attention to the remarkable progress that has been made in the construction of the new industrial town south of the lake! The ultra copper plant of the American Smelting & Refining company is quite a respectable town in itself and is so far along that to outward appearances, appear-ances, it is already complete. The furnace building build-ing is all done but its flues. The sulphide mill is finished although the McDougall roasters have not yet been installed. The machine and blacksmith shops have been running for some time. The present pres-ent showing on the site of the Utah Copper plant is less imposing because the larger structures have not been raised, but the practical completion .of the two-story hotel, office, machine shop and warehouse give tho place an urban air that surprises sur-prises everyone who sees it for tho first time. Work is proceeding steadily at the plant of the Boston Con. on the foundations. Only temporary buildings have been erected. The permanent structures will go up rapidly, however, when the finishing touches have been put upon the arduous 1 preliminary work. In the town proper, which is to be connected with the various plants by trolley, jJ foundations have been 1 id lor 2 Oor 30 brick or concrete residences and the No. 1 boarding house, built of white pressed brick and containing 30 Hj rooms, is done. The townsite has been complete- ly surveyed and work is in progress on sidewalks and sewers. & & & H Movements of the local mining exchange during lfl tho past week have been decidedly erratic, but the iH general result has been reassuring to the timorous .H ones who have been looking forward to a mid-summer mid-summer trance as a part of the order of nature. iH An advance on the part of Daly-Judge and a slight decline by Little Bell have brought these two Park City stocks nearly abreast and they are now lined 'H up for a new race. The Odin in Theno's canyon, '-H from which very favorable reports have been re-ceived, re-ceived, made its debut on 'change this week at 30 cents, and Thompson, an undeveloped Parle City jH proposition, surprised tho talent by its remark- -H able exhibition of strength. Another striking fea-ture fea-ture of tho week was tho advance of Columbus Con. from $8 to $8.50. The most confirmed pessi-mist pessi-mist on tho board, nothing personal intended, now admits that the Columbus is the real thing and the bear campaign against it is virtually over. Wed-nesday's Wed-nesday's call added materially to tho wealth of tho owners of Daly-Judge. This stock, which began the week at $11.50, grew in favor from the start, but it was the last day that sent the share to $13 j and rang up the big gains for the faithful. As the gentleman in Battle Creek would say, "There 'M is a reason," but the public has not been permit-ted permit-ted to share in the secret. & tN & Little Bell, the principal rival of Daly-Judge, was not in the game this week. In one or two small sales it established itself at $12.12, but it 9 had no speaking part in the drama. New York Bonanza, which was said last week to bo trom- jH bling on the verge of another assessment, discred- jH ited the judgment of the prophets by moving from 'H 22y2 to 25. Tho timely secession of tho water jH that has been interfering with work on tho lower ;1H levels will reduce tho cost of development and ;n expedite the operations. Thompson was marked .'S up from 35 to 48 during tho week. S v & & fH Tho weok'a sales averaged bettor than a dollar )9 a share. Tho shares sold numbered 270,083 and the amount paid for them was $288,315.02. ' A :'JM healthy basis for this activity was shown in the :fl total of the ore and bullion settlements which S amounted (o $510,900. fl |