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Show BINGHAM IN BOSTON Predicted Thnt Camp Will Lead in Copper Production. The Bingham -.-amp now prorr.lKos to he one Of the World's hading copper producers. Its porphyry or monsonlte deposits apparently carry copper In tu Inir 'quantity over vast areas, says the Uoslon CommcrclaJ. This rork i an ho milled, con. entra'ed and the .-..iv.n-trates smelted more cheaply tlian that mined In any other ramp In the world, with tho possible pos-sible exception of the lock of the Lake Superior Su-perior district Bingham rtionsongs can ho concentrated twenty-three tons into one, and this ton of concentrate will vleld Tm DOUndl ut One copper and $10 to tlx In gold and silver, sil-ver, rt Is believed that the cost of mlnlns this rock ran be brought down to less than BO cents per ton Tonnage of Sulphides. Outside of Its monsonlte the Bingham district dis-trict already yields an Immense tunnago of heavy Iron sulphide Copper orvs which aio smelted direct without previous concentration. This class or ores from the basis of tho present operations of the t'teh Consolidated. I 1 11 k ti o in . l ulled siat.-s M I n h ik Ctah-Apex and TampS companies, and !G0 tons of such Orel are being sent m thfl -.meller Osll (Tom lbs Huston i onsolldated mines. Other extensive ex-tensive deposits of these ores will undoubtedly tc developed. Big Estimate Made. ft Is estimated that the HlnBli.no district wih. within thru yars, be producing from 110,000,000 to 105,000,000 pounds of copper annually an-nually Tho American Smelting un.l Refining management fully appreciates the situation and evidently proposes to get control of a r. -rl Hrtlon of the mines before they have had an opportunity to demonstiato their full earning capacity |