Mining Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-02
issued: 1899-05-27
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note: 0' v^\ YV ,p.. ������������������^L fl i Afl VOL 2. NO. 51. SANDON, B. C, SATURDAY, WAY 27, 1899. FIVE CENTS. S EIGHT-HOUR [I. The Wonderful and Miller Creek Companies Express Themselves Through Manager Davis. Manager Davis, of the Wonderful and Miller Creek mines, interviewed in Spokane the other day said : '"The mines will probably be shut down for a time. I expect to sut down the Miller Creek- and Wonderful with others until some agreement is reached so we may know what to depend upon. This eight-hour law was not asked for by the miners nor the mine owners. It was passed at the request oi some Occur d'Aleno agitators, who are up in that country. Any reasonable miner would prefer to work ten hours per clay and get $3.50, to working eight and receiving S3. I would rather pay thc 10-hour scale than the lower one. Of ail the men m my employ, I do not think there is one who ia in favor of the new eight-hour regulation.' "Concerning the Wonderful and.Miller Creek, Mr. Davis reports development proceeding steadily. -"The crosscut tunnel on the Miller'Creek is in about 270 feet and making good headway toward the vein. The upper tunnel on the vein has passed through ore continuously for 146 feet to where a break was encountered, and, alter some development there, the ore body was again Iound and is being followed. On the Wonderful work has stopped at the point where the cached ore was recently found, it being so near tne surface that water comes in too lreely to permit of more.work there until thc spring thaw is-over. The cross-cut tunnel on the Wonderful is in 575 feet, and a raise is being made on a stringer of galena in order to determine tho stn<e oi the vein fronf which stringer is supposed to lead.'" the Attempted Suicide. "The celebrated Oriental, in the bourse of an interview, said he had oeen delighted with what ho had seen cf Canada. The country and ils climate had been a revelation to tho members of his party.- Its vast area and illimitable resources had impres…
note: Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sandon (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0183461
language: English
lat: 49.975556
long: -117.227222
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sandon B.C. : Cliffe and Son
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