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Show Utah Copper Takes Lead In August Output of Metai the year there will be a slight accumulation accum-ulation of the metal. This, of course would be but temporary, because tht moment the government permits an? substantial consumption in non-war lines there will be a demand for the metal running into the hundreds . of millions of pounds. The following pictures August output out-put of the twenty leading produccrt compared with July (in pounds): Anaconda 24,900,000 25,400,000 Utah 13,920,047 16.oai.T66 Inspiration 9,000,000 9.000,000 Chino 6,065,818 6.310,396 Miami 5.374 4 98 4,793.082 Ray . '. ...... ... 6,625,000 7,300,000 Nevada Cone. . . 6,500,000 6,400,000 Phelps Dodge .t 1740UG1 18,733,071 Cal. & Ariz. .... 4,376.000 4,214,000 New Cornelia . , 8,928,000 3.900,000 Ariz. Copper -,'.'. . f 4,300,000 4,000,000 i Old Dominion , . 2,064,500 2,533,000 i East Butte 1.714,858 - 2,076.460 CaL & ecla & Sub v .-., 10.718520 11.118.426 Girauby ...t.... 2,820,207 2,167,077 Greene Cananea. 6,000.000 5.000.00C Cerro de aPsco.., 6,786.000 5.5ft8 0W Kennecoft 5,280,000 5,090.0on Chile .' 8.496,000 7.5.16.000 Braden 6,690.000 7,036.000 Total .. (155,660,809 144,087,278 Big Bingham Property Shows Increase Of Nearly . 4,000,000 Pounds As Compared With The July Production. . Smelter output for twenty representative represen-tative American copper companies in August totaled 153,060,809 pounds,. an Increase of 41,600,000 pounds or 8 per cent, over the previous month, says the (Boston News Bureau. Utah was a conspicuous gainer, its output of 19,920,947 pounds registering an Increase of close to 4,000,000 pounds from the July figure. Chile and Cerro de (Pasco were the gainers among the "foreigners." the former showing an Increase of nearly 1,000,000 pounds In August. A comparison with the mouth of August. 1917, la without value because be-cause of the labor strike that two summers ago swept over the Arizona amp and in lessor degree over the Bi.Ue district. Thus the first ..eight moiiths of 118 are able to show a slight exp.ins,:cn at 1,:57,884.651 pound.;, ngaTnst 1;127,062,4 16 pounds in the corresponding period of 1917, While it is obviously impossible tc get figures of the actual war consumption con-sumption of copper, it is known that construction of absolutely non-essential enterprises Is atari nil everything every-thing is being subordinated to the government needs. While it shows no diminution in its Cmand, the government is not running with bare bins, as it did some months past. It is comfortably supplied. There is no great tonnage of raw copper now moving mov-ing overseas; Indeed, August saw an export of but 42,300,000 pounds, of cooper, the smallest monthly outgo reported since May, 1916. Thus far this year, shipments across the water have averaged 65,800,000 . pounds, in 1917... The fact that the government Is acknowledgedly In easier condition copperwise and that the overseas movement Is declining has given rise to the feeling that before the knd of |