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Show The Copper Furnace Makes Jew Record Red Motal, With Gold and Silver Prom Utah Mines, Shows Increase for tho Week. From the furnaces of tho copper plants to the Eastern refineries there was forwarded during the week 006,7o3 pounds of copper bullion, containing gold and sliver, tho record exceeding all previous ores and yet but a unit in that for which the copper-producer is equipping. equip-ping. It wns the unprecedented performance per-formance at the Bingham Con. smelter to which the furnaces collectively aro Indebted for the exhibit. Tho management manage-ment of that plant, which has been preparing pre-paring its battery for several weeks, forging ahead to pecond1 place, while tho Installation of a llfth furnace will enable en-able It, no doubt, to crowd the Utah Con., which has long maintained the lead. In addition to the red metal from thoso sources was that contained In the matte billed out by the- American, tho output of which plant averages about 900,000 pounds a month, while at the Yampa smelter In Bingham canyon the capacity will havo beon doubled before the close of the year. The record for the week was made up as follows: Bingham Con 301,623 United States 244.530 Utah Con 3C0.C00 Total, pounds 90C.7G3 While this record Is being fried' out at the furnaces the copper concentrators ore making gains equally gratifying, while equipping for yet greater ones. At the Utah Copper company's mill In Bingham canyon the output of this metal met-al will have been doubled before the expiration ex-piration of thirty days, while enlargements enlarge-ments aro being made at the Ohio company's com-pany's mill in tho same camp, with a possibility of the smelter out of Mllford going into commission. Meanwhile the big plant with which tho Newhouae mines In Beaver county aro being equipped Is being hastened to earliest completion possible, while there Is no doubt of the Boston Con.'g equipment with a similar method for the reduction reduc-tion of Its second-clnra ore. |