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Show MARCH CROP OF ORE AND BULLION Output for Month Nearly Touches the $3,000,000 Mark Steady Increase In-crease Assured. Boisterous March in the ore and bullion bul-lion market closed on settlements aggregating ag-gregating $2,013,600, with the crop of copper bullion from furnaces Independent Indepen-dent of those operated by the American Increasing the output to approximately $3,000,000. During the same month last year tho settlements ln the open market mar-ket amounted to $2,029,540, with tho total from all sources swelled to $2,7S0.-000. $2,7S0.-000. The figures, to bo accurate, for tho month Just eliminated from the calendar, calen-dar, disclose a total from all sources amounting to $2,911,357, not an Insignificant Insignifi-cant gain. The output of copper bullion bul-lion containing gold and silver from furnaces contemporaneous with those of the American reveals a total of 2,959,190 pounds, compared with 2,921,642 pounds for the same period ln 1903, the record closing as follows: , - Pounds. Bingham Con 727,190 United States 1,023,400 Utah Con 1.203.400 Total 2.&59.190 In addition to this volume of copper bullion the American forwarded matte containing 765,000 pounds of the red metal, thiH Increasing the total bullion of this class to 3,724,190 pounds. That the output of March will be Increased and new records established as the year ages, enlargements at plants now in operation and new ones In process of construction will permit of no discount. Equipment at the United States will not only enable it to take care of the Increased output of lead ore, but a sixth furnace now being added to Its battery will add to its facilities for the reduction of copper ores, while In June the Utah Con. will be reducing 50 per cent more with the fourth furnace at the Bingham Con. likely to go Into commission com-mission at any hour. The day's settlements in the open market amounted to $61,400, McCornlck & Co. reporting them as they follow. American bullion, $29,600; gold, silver, lead nd copper ores, $31,S00. In the metal market silver ruled at 55 cents an ounce, lead at $3.50 per hundred pounds, and casting copper at 12 cents a pound. |