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Show ssssssssjf r r n H WAOKS MUST FOLLOW MBTAL8 H With copper selling below fifteen cents, lead at B J dose to six and a half cents and xlno at a Httlri un- H dor seven cents, it must bo apparent overt to tho mln- H i r, that production costs muBt come down or employ- H ment largely ccaso. It Is a matter of Inexorable cc- H J onomtcs, dictated by the very human fact that pro- I J..,. aaaH ducors will not function at a IosbT. After a' worlds wide orgyffof high "wages, hlgh'costa, high rallroa'd rates, lglrmonoy 'and high extravagance, the rapidly deflating Balloon Is descending to earth. Alt things considered metals are (tolling nt figures proportionately,. proportion-ately,. below those prevailing ln'pro-war days and readjustment of a drastic naturo is unavoidable. Necessarily, wages will bo tho last Item of costs to como down, but come down they must, and thcro seems every reason to bcllcvo that the process will bo In full swing during the coming winter. It Is to bo hoped thnt when tho tlmo comes, labor in tho mining min-ing districts' of tho northwest will do Its own thlnk-Ing thlnk-Ing and rofuso to be led away Into economic unsound ncss by loud mouthod agitators. Tho undivided efforts ef-forts of all classes'' of, bo piety will be needed to keep nh 6 bont on an even keel and labor's part will In a groat measure bo tho determining factor. Like youth economic) must bo served, and tho day of scrplco a at hand. Noithwcst Mining Truth." R It M' |
