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Show STAY AWAY FROM BUTTE. A Note of Warning- to the Miners and Laboring Men of Utah. Butte is perhaps the best camp in the world for laboring men, says the Mi ner of that town. Wages are high and regularly paid. In the mines, mills and smelters here there are over four thousand men employed and their wages amount to about $400,000 per month. These facts seem to have been circulated throughout the country and the result has been a tremendous influx of laboring men seeking employment in every avenue . of trade. A largo majority of them are miners from the played-out camps of Colorado, Utah and Nevada. Most of them are "broke" and they come here expecting to get work on their arrival, arri-val, only to be disappointed. Every mining min-ing superintendent receives from 20 to 100 applications per day for work which he cannot give. The situation is appalling. Winter is coming on, and it will be cold and long. What these idle men will do to sustain themselves becomes a very important im-portant problem to other people here as well as to them sel ves. It wi 11 do them no good to remain here. Butte cannot give employment to all the men in the Rocky mountains. Montana during the winter months possesses no attractions for idle men and they will only suffer if they remain re-main here in such large numbers. There is nothing ahead of them but continued idleness, unless by scattering to the small mining districts, wood camps and farms, they can secure employment until the prospecting season next year. ' |