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S BIG GAIN IN Total Prof Profits i Is for List Last Year Are Aie Over One Million The report of the hue lotte Superior dinIng company for the fourth or of 1910 1913 makes possible a survey of If the years year's operations Up until the thelast last ast of October the zinc market had been drifting In the same aimless manner man man- ner It had been pursuing for the tho past two o years With the advent of winter win win- ter cr however ho came camo a stiffening in price rice and the average sales figure of Dutto lutto Superior for the final 1919 quarter was S SJ cents per pound an Increase of 1 cent over the thc preceding three months Net profits In the three months to December 01 31 amounted to equivalent to per share on the I shares outstanding This Thia brought total profits for the year urto ur up to 0 1077 or per share 60 p pr i cent of which were contributed by the hue last three months These earnings are j after taxes and depreciation hut before be- be fore oro a a. reservation for depletion o of ore A very significant and encouraging I feature of the lie last quarterly report I Iwas was the manner in the percentage percent percent- I age of recovery stood up notwithstandIng I lug Ing the company under supreme court mandate was van compelled lo to Increase thue amount of oil It uses la In the Iho flotation j process Average recovery was I Iper per cent of zinc content of the ore a decline dechino of but 2 per cent from the thue preceding preceding pre pre- ceding three months while the average for the year was per por cent an Increase In Increase In- In crease of 3 per cent over 1918 and 3 5 per ier cent over 1917 Grade of ore oro averaged aver aver- aged about 15 per cent zinc In the lie final j three months and for the full year averaged averaged av- av 1 17 per cent about 1 I per cent less than In 1918 The rhe following table sets forth the salient features of the tho past operations 1919 1019 lOiS Tons milled Aver assay zinc percent I 17 Recovery per percent cent Prod Irod zinc 1 1739 Prof pcr share Total costs per ton 1133 Costs last year of per ton were per ton less than In 1918 Of course the tho record prices obtaining for silver nearly all last year were of great aid In keeping keeping- costs down Butte ButteS S Superior ores carry C ounces of sil silver sil- sil ver vel- on Oil tho average and with that metal at an ounce or thereabouts this is no small aid The only legal shadow on Butte Superiors Superior's horizon now Is the pend pending ing accounting and finding of damages dam ages for the Minerals Separation company com COnI- pany With zinc averaging 9 cents per for the tho first forty five days of or 1020 or 1 11 3 cents mer better than tho sales figure of tIme the last quarter ter of 1919 Butte Superiors Superior's profits profit arc running at a good clip It was as understood to have had 5 2 In not quick assets at the close cbs of 1919 and should the zinc market marke hold its present firmness it is not a anil at atall nil all Improbable dividends will be re resumed regardless of tho thue far or near nea settlement of the tho last piece of litigation ion tion now no- being threshed out STRUCK AT RICO Provo Feb 28 In In discussing th tho extent of the recent strike at the TIle Rico Wellington mine at Rico Cob Colo H. 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