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Show I? President Sharp of United ? States Company Talks on ; Metal Situation. ? PRICES WILL GO UP ?:' AS BUSINESS DOES f But Pending' National Election j He Does Not Anticipate jj . -'Better Levels. ?' Jt is not altogether a coincidence Hint ; 'President Sharp and Managing Director Holden of the United States Smelting, Iicfining and Mining company usually '. reach Salt Lake City only a few days - ahead of the duck season. Both adinit-( adinit-( ted yesterday that (heir fall visits west arc so timed that the can take advan-. advan-. in go, of the opening of the duck season, r as both are members of the Bear Kivor : club. Monday and Tuesday, however, "were spent by these officials in visit-,,ing visit-,,ing the Bingham Junction smelter of , tho compairy and iu conferring with .- General Manager iGcorgc "W. Hcintz and pother local officials. Mr. Sharp -was .'. asked Tuesday" morning for news about ' the United States compauj-, and he said: -"Mr. Holden and myself have .iust - visited tho mammoth plant of our coin-. coin-. pairy in California, "whore we have five '. furnaces in commission, and all doing .magnificent work. As you already .; ;know, at the Bingham Junction plant ivo have five furnaces iu .operation. As -to a description of the new process at , tho Bingham Junction plant, by which .-.11 ,l,l.',ni.Ul1C CIlllCMlOOC -.- from the funics, you will have to apply to Mr. Ueintz, who undoubtedly will . givo tho Salt Lake papers information relative to this at tho proper time. "We 'hear nothing but the best of news, how-I how-I over, from our Utah interests. "The metal market? Well, you can I Z see for yourself that thero is a gradual , recovery in copper and lead prices, I , while silver is still low, with no immc- -diate cvidenco of its improvement in ( ; sight. Tho metals will recover slowly, taoy will improve in price as the gen-j gen-j oral business conditions of the country i improve, but perhaps we should not ex- I pect too great an advance 'in anything until after the election." Mr. Holden stated that Salt Lake and her prosperity looked good to him, and . the fame of this era of good times here . 3jad reached him in the east. Both officials of-ficials will be in Utah for ten daj-s or ' j two weeks. |