Show t M MINES i CLOSED w STATE IN GOADS CHAO f Montana Mon na Business in Bad Wa Way Just Now Says Merchant r of Butte MEN LEAVE IN HORDES HORDE I But All Will Be Well Again I Says E A Ae Rogers When S Copper Goes Up 1 t 4 1 Special republican Service N- N Os Oct 17 Elmer l.-Elmer Elmer A A. of ol Butte tf spent IH today toda In jn O Ogden den en route route tS' tS 4 to tu Denver I on business 83 Mr cr slate J that Industrial and anil commercial 1 t I. I affairs are In a n condition In I I v r on lana owing to the down own of oC j the bi l copper corper properties In that Y a 1 t R Tho rho entire state of Montana I Is affected affected af af- S b by the closing down of t. t J he the most important copper mines of oC Butte Business I Is Ig practically at a ai i et I standstill and those engaged d in mer- mer chandl minIng minIng- r and antI In r theE fact in any nn line linn of ot business scarcely r know wh when re th they are Jit nL Th The Tho cOver copper m I Is watched with feverish fe InI litI In- In Int I t resL With copper copper at its normal value In In 1 c. c and European centers conters Butte k fr J lq without doubt the greatest mining f- f camp In the world But nut the tue present nt f. f price of the product docs loes not hot warrant t f 5 the resumption re of or rl and miners f are leaving lea Butte in iii blocks s of hundreds j these last few days s Th The throwing o out t if 4 of or employment of or thousands of miners e r. r naturally makes things perplexing for formen 1 li men in nil all lines linen of oC trade I- I The train service sr between Butte Dutt anti anil f. f Anaconda for instance is almost wipe wip- od 11 i out of existence e The fr freight Ilc on this line I is enormous when the mines are In operation All the ore 1 ir 1 for or the tho great reat Anaconda smelter er Emt emPt employing em em- t Pt thousands of men Is is' hauled 7 over o this road anti l trains usually follow each other In rapid succession s But at il present operations on this line are In Ina a It rightful frightful condition I Merchants in many towns are unable un un- c able lie to order supplies or stocks with i any nn assurance of or deli f ranc Of or ory y cO course with lIh the Ilie advance od In price urice of t V. V copp copper r which l Is II sure SUII to fo com come these condition conditions will nill be hI re reversed anti and all 1111 r Montana on In on wilt vill i I b be 10 on Anit f more moro |