Show I Rally of Lead Producers The return of the Utah delegation I from the lead conference In New York in to bo made the occasion for n rally of Utah lead producers and to that end active arrangements wlh begin the present week While the local lead producer has been Informed and knows 1 now that the new year will open on n 1 350 market for his product he expresses ex-presses a desire to know how it was arranged ar-ranged and whether or not it will be Incumbent upon him to curtail his output out-put A report was quite actively exploited ex-ploited yesterday that In effecting the I agreement there was an understanding that the heavier producers would be required to contribute to a fund by which a certain class which Is to remain re-main out of the market entirely until the surplus Is removed and consumption consump-tion Is restored shall receive a nominal nomi-nal sum each month If there is such n provision in the agreement certainly I nothing to verify it has been received I at this end of the line However a wellknown mining man who has long I been prominently Identified with one of the more prominent mining companies I says he has It from the lipa of no less I I a source than n Coeur cVAlone producer I that for months the American Smelting and Refining company has been allowing I allow-ing him bread money with the understanding under-standing that the remittance is to continue I con-tinue as long as his ores were withheld I from the market That the ameltlng company will continue to do this now I that a market for 1902 has been provided pro-vided for Is not very likely so that after all the story concerning n fund I with which to sustain the Idle is not altogether l I al-together Improbable However all this I will be discussed by the gathering that I will follow the return of the Utah delegation I dele-gation from the conference |