Show TO REFINE MORE COPPER Plants of Country Being Enlarged to Handle More a Month The enormous demand for tor copper which ha has advanced te the price of te the metal from 12 cent cents t to cent cents has shown n a lack of refIning renning capacity In Inthis inthis this countr country which has seriously inter interfered interbred bred wih with te the placing of the copper on the market Wih With a view yiew of remedying this situation al all te the large copper re companies are are preparing ma to increase ther their capacity this year ear earThe The Unite United Metals Selling company at Is its Raritan plant is now refining be between b tween 1 12 00 and 1300 pounds ot of copper per month but it Is s Increasing Is its 10 per cent and by S Sept I I 1 to be able able to tret treat 2 pounds per month A good share of the copper opper refining for the United Metals is done in Baltimore at a plant controlled GY by the Keysers of tat that city The United States Smelting Refining Mining company which o owns the De DeLamar DeLamar Lamar plat at at N J wI will In Increase crease te the of it its plant from to OO pounds pe per month t and wi will have this increased capacity by AprI April 1 The American SmeltIng Refining company compan recently increased te the c ca capacity of is Its eastern refining plant from to pounds and plans a stIl still furter further enlargement enlargement The Nichols NIchos Chemical company whIch lS s owned by the American Metal interests now has a monthly refining interest ha l capacity of pounds Wih With the extension of these various tee refining plats plants there wl will be an excess refining company in te the c country which Is ver very much desired by te the copp copper r peo people pIe The copper production of this count country including Mexico and British Columbia at the present time is at the rte rate of about pounds per monh month of which nearly pounds is Lake copper coper which does not require electrolytic refining Wih With the enlargement of the above plant plants the total copper refining ca pacify of te the country wi will be not far I from pounds as the above I four companies alone wi will have a monthly capacity of pounds without any urther enlargement by byte bythe te the company compan AmerIca American p Smelting Refining |