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Show BUTTE & SUPEBIOR 1S RECORD OUTPUT Col. D. C. Jackling and President N. Bruce Mac-Kelvie Mac-Kelvie Inspect Mine. Colonel D. C. Jackling, accompanied by President X. Bruce MacKelvie of the Butie ;t Superior Copper Mining company, com-pany, returned from UuLto yesterday morning, where they had been Einco Sun-clay. Sun-clay. They made an inspection o( the : mine and mill while In that camp und j found every dppartment of the big works ; running smoothly. j Colonel Jaeklios paid that for the I last ten days in January the larKeflt production pro-duction had been made from the mine and the b-'st recoveries made by the mill In the history of operations at the property prop-erty for a corresponding period. With an excellent market for the zinc product, the management was instructed to continue con-tinue operations at top capacity. The repairs re-pairs in the shaft of the mine, havlnfr been completed, both the mine and mill are in shape to irtalte u wonderful showing show-ing for an indefinite period. Metal mnrket conditions are In a much better condition than they were from thirty to sixty days ago, and Colonel Jackling said that the favorable situation, situa-tion, in so far as zinc and copper are concerned, is so much of an improvement over former conditions that thy have felt encouraged to as great degreo as they were justified. Europeai countries are buying a lot of copper. Judging from reports i hat emanate ema-nate from the east. The demand for the metal In this country Is good and. while there has been no time set for bringing Utah Copper and other porphvri'-s up to normal production, the companies are anxious to employ more men when hs-surnnre hs-surnnre Is given that the copper metal market Is broad enough to consume a larger production than is being made for a sufficient length of time to warrant war-rant bringing them up to capacity. Some of the copper producers made a s1!ah:lv inTo;ised production In January. Tliis month helmc short, the pvod'i.-iki is not expected to be iii'-reasrd, but it may compare favorably to tliat of lost month. |