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Show UTAH CON. SMELTER. Capacity to Be Increased to 500 Tons Per Day. Special to The Tribune. BOSTON. Mass., March 21. Tho Utah Consolidated Copper company is contemplating contem-plating increasing tho capacity of Its smelter COO tons. Its present smelter Is treating about 825 tons of oro per day and turning out copper bullion at trie rate of between 1,500.000 and 1. 000,00) pounds per month. An increase of 500 tons In smelter capacity would permit the treatment of a still larger percentage of low-grado ore, and of a monthly bullion output of about 2,000,000 pounds. n |