Show ADVANCE FIGURES ON COPPER PRO IN 1916 according to the advance statement or on the alie production of copper for the year 1916 issued by the united states geological sur vey it is estimated that the smelter production of primary copper in the united states was pounds compared with pounds in 1915 an increase of 39 per cent the total value of the output in 1916 at an average price of cents a pound is compared with for 1915 the production of new refined copper was pounds an in increase C reas P of pounds over 1915 in addition to the secondary material treated by the regular refining companies says the statement plants that treated secondary material exclusively produced a total of about pounds of copper as copper in brass and other alloys of copper making a total production of pounds from secondary sources of this total at least pounds was produced by re melting clean scrap produced in the manufacture of copper and brass articles if the output of plants treating purely secondary material is added to the production of the regular refining companies the contribution from plants in the united states to the worlds supply of copper for 1916 is found to be pounds in addition to the output of metallic copper the regular refining companies produced bluestone with a copper content of pounds the statement concludes returns from all producing companies show that their stocks of electrolytic lake casting and pig copper on hand at the beginning and end of the year were as follows pounds january 1 1917 january 1 1916 increase during 1916 in addition to the stocks of refined copper there were reported as at the smelters shelters sm elters in transit to the refiners finers re and at the refineries blister copper and material in process of refining to the amount of pounds on jan 1 1917 compared with pounds on jan 1 1916 the apparent consumption of refi refined refilled lied new copper in the united states in 1916 was pounds in 1915 it was 1043 pounds |