Show METAL i PRICES HIT HITNEr NEW NEr MEXICO MINES IINES The output of or the mines of or Now Kew Mexico Mex rec- ico ice for eleven cleven months month of or 1919 and time the estimated output for Cor December as re reported reported ro- ro ported b by Charles W Y Henderson of time the United States geological survey department department depart depart- ment of oC the thc interior amounted to in gold goM ounces of or silver er pounds of ot lead Jend pounds of oC copper and pounds of oC zinc as compared with 68 In Ingold Ingold Ingold gold iS 4 1 ounces In silver HI pounds of oC lead 63 pounds of or copper copper copler cop cop- per ler and amid I pounds of or zinc In 1918 1915 These preliminary figures show decreases of or in gold ounces In silver pounds of lead pounds of ot copper and pounds of or zinc Inc All the thc mines except silver er mines suffered from low prices of or metal and increased prices of oC labor and material The Tho decrease in the time output of all metals except gold Sold and amid silver Is start start- Hm ling hag Mills of or tho the Mogollon district Socorro county count produced 1 Ingold in ingold ingold gold and ounces of ot silver as ns compared with in gold and ounces of or silver in 1918 HilS Copper has long been an Important metal product of or Now Mexico and I since operations were begun by the time Chino Copper company compan at Santa Rita Hita at t tho time beginning of or 1910 tIme the states state's output of or this metal has been large The Time largo large decrease In tho tim output of copper In 1919 In Is therefore particularly particularly particularly impressive for time the total output t is ison on only I a little hittie more than halt half that In 1918 InS In 1919 tho Chino Copper company's com corn pany's output was pounds as 8 compared with pounds in 1918 Beginning In January 1919 with an nn output less titan than tho the average month monthly rr ly output in 1918 this company curtailed curtailed curtailed cur cur- tailed operations to about CO GO per pcr cent centor of or its capacity during the tho rc rest t of or the time year year yean Tho Time Burro Burlo Mountain branch of or orthe I the Phol s Do Dodge O company which In 1918 1913 produced l tons tops of or concentrate concentrate concen concen- averaging H. H 1 per cent copper was even moro more seriously affected b by bythe bytho tho the drop In price of at copper and suspended suspended sus gus milling operations early In the tho year car and did not resume |