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Show I The Copper Output ! Shows Jew Record Unprecedented Crop of tho Red Metal Sent.Into the Market During-From During-From tho furnaces of. the copper amelters there was forwarded to tho Eastern refineries during the week fEP,E37 pounds of copper bullion, containing1 con-taining1 gold and silver, and of a value approximating $300,000. Under" the j weight of this record all previous ones have crumbled, while the Utah Con,, as did the Bingham, presented its adherents ad-herents and the oracles of the East, who have been evolving an encyclopedia encyclope-dia of "estimates" on the output of Utah'3 copper producers, with a new et of figures from which to arrive at their deductions. The volume "forwarded" "for-warded" by the Utah Con., without reference ref-erence to what is actually produced, cannot but convince all Interests of the efficiency of Its smelter, the re-eourccs re-eourccs of which it Is drawing, while the record with which the Bingham Con. came forward affords an Intimation Intima-tion of what may be expected with flv furnaces In commission, although the fifth blast did not begin its teething teeth-ing until a few days ago. By the man-flrrftnnt man-flrrftnnt of thr TTnHrvT Stnlo ;?Yielfn- I III the usual record was maintained dur- llij Ing the week, as was also that of the American, from which latter there was ifli oent out the usual matte containing an Miff average of 50 per cent copper, the rec- JSMg ord closing as follows: yftS Pounds. Mlv Bingham Con. 303.G19 H9D United States 2f$.4S0 Hi Utah Consolidated 42I.4S3 jjfl Total 9S9.537 "While the performance by the cop- Rfff per Pl&nts Is an unprecedented one, that it was not more imposing was that lu the capacity of the furnaces was not jlj ffreater, Not one of the companies en- 1J gaged In the production of copper, gold and silver-bearing ores but is prepared 2 to Increase the output of Its mines, and 11 with projected enlargements completed, l the output of bullion will have been fl materially Increased. |