Show ANACONDA COPPER MAGNATE VIEWS FUTURE WITH OPTIMISM john D ryan chairman of anaconda copper mining company when in butte about the middle of the month stated butte and the entire state should have a very prosperous period ahead I 1 am very happy to find that the feeling and it is gratifying to learn in in butte is one of prosperity that the crop conditions throughout montana are good I 1 am very glad to be able to say thai the prospects for the future in the metal market are such that good times may be expected in the mining industry mr ryan further stated that so far in 1926 market for copper and brass has enjoyed greater volume than at any time in the history of the industry the output of manufactured products in the first six months of 1926 was 20 per cent greater than any previous like period and anaconda is manufacturing 25 per cent of the worlds output although now european consumption is 25 per cent below normal american users have taken up tip the slack and consumption per capita last year was exactly double that of the rate prior to ten years ago in regard to the S south american properties mr ryan h in the volume of growth growt stated 1 I look for a continued business sufficient to easily take the production of the andes company and the additional production from mining copper which will be coming coining in next t the lie chile copper company 7 arih rr ih year at fair prices |