Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-08-04 | Page 19 | Butte Copper Mines Show a Big Decrease

BUTTE COPPER MINES ! SHOW A BIG DECREASE ;H Special to Tho Tribune. BOSTON. Mass., Aug. 2. Estimated production of the Butte minos for July was 27.157,30;) pounds of copper from 413.4S5 tons of ore. This is an increase of nearly 1,000,000 pounds over tho June output, but is o,S19.575 pounds less thnn for July, 1906. For tho first seven months of the current vear Butin camp has shown a return of 1S1.605,- H 007 pounds as .compared with 215,822,- Rl 400 pounds for the same period la$r. .. IH year, a decrease of 34.217,39;-), or more fl than a year's production. iH n