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Show The Yanipa's Matte Goes foJe II, S, Product of Its Furnaces to Bo Reduced Re-duced at "Works of Neighboring Company in. Valley. For two yearc at least the copper, gold and sliver-bearing matte from the furnaces of the Tampa smelter in Bingham Bing-ham canyon will be forwarded to the convertors of tho United States smelter in the valley, this under an agreement which has Just been entered into by tho principals. Over the contract there has been considerable rivalry. The product, running high up In iron as well as copper, cop-per, with characteristic values In gold and silver, is a most desirable' one, and as a flux is unexcelled. Even the big plants at Butte have been bidders for It, but the tariff on the long haul made it impossible for them to compete successfully. suc-cessfully. With a second furnace, for which orders have been placed by the management, the output of matte at the Yampa will have been Increased to forty tons daily, the new devices on which the management hay decided enabling en-abling it to regulate the grade as the market may desire, while with the Installation In-stallation of a reverbatory furnace the product will have approached to within one degree the pig product of the valley smelters. Meanwhile the bins of the United States company's lead smelter are rapidly rapid-ly filling with lead ores, and construction construc-tion there Indicates that tho lead blasts will be ready to go Into commission as has been scheduled. |