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Show op .raiis I; Value of Ore Produced ! : $ye,, . I i i Copper for April Roaches the I I Great Total of 4,300,- 000 Pounds, i j i I Profitable Month, in. Many - of the loading Mines in the Various Utah Camps. ' ! , DECIDEDLY sral frying showing ; fk Is mado of , Ihc pcrform-ancc pcrform-ancc of the mines of tho sfatc for both the week and the month that ended -with yesterday, the ore and bul-, bul-, lion settlements approaching- 52,000.000 I1 for tho month and the copper product reaching the magnlilcant showing1 of l.SOO.O'Jl pounds, bringing1 the total in ! value for that time close to $3,000,000. 1 Yesterday's ore and bullion settlements j ' amojinted to $72,000. The settlements , for the week reached a total of $472,000, ' "while tho figures for the month reached ' tho excellent showing presented by $1,-S2S.S0O. $1,-S2S.S0O. Some Encouraging Figures, i On the metal market silver ruled at 1 cents an ounce, lead at $3.50 per 300 pounds and casting copper at lk 1 ' cents a pound Tho coper output from j ihe Independent smelters Is docldcdly gratifying both for the week and tho 1 month. Tho week's output aggregates 3,210,624 pounds, divided a3 follows: ' 1 Bingham Con., 131.2C5 pounds; Utah Con.. 3C1.710 pounds; United States, j 216,301 pounds. The grand total for the . month Is measured by 3,210,524 pounds. To this should be added to obtain tho 1 output of tho State in pounds, the product pro-duct from the American Smelting And 1 1 Refining company, estimated at about 850,000 pounds, hut tho money value o this copper Is included in the regular ore and bullion, settlements. To these I totals should also be added the output from tho Utah and Eastern smelter ft, near St. George, which Is probably 240,-V 240,-V V 000 pounds, and the value of which is , not included in the 010 and bullion settlement returns. A number of mines of the State, the I I ores from which arc sold to Independent ! ( 1 buyers, aro not Included in the totals given, so that the ore and bullion sales, including the copper from the American Ameri-can smelter will aggregate close to ?2,-l ?2,-l .. 1 000,000, while the copper from tho In-'! In-'! dependent concerns, aggregating 3,450,-( 3,450,-( H2-1 pounds, will bring from $750,000 to $1,000,000, making the total output of the l' Stato for the month of the precious . metals approach very comfortably, to the $3,000,000 marlc j Some Velvet Given Out. Profits from nine Utah mines wero distributed during the month of April j, in the way of dividends to the extent f I of $269,000. The properties contributing 1 to the total and the amount of the sev- oral distributions follow; j Daly West J1T7.C00 11 Silver King , -100,000 1 Grand Central 23,000 I Annio Laurlo , 32.C0O ,1 ' Sacramento .. 5,000 1 . Century . 1... 5,000 1 South Swansea 3.000 , i Salvator 2.C-00 Vtah of Fish Springs 1,000 |