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Show NEVADA COII. m CONTINUE OUTPU I Management Gives Assurance i No Intended Curtail- m en t. NEW IDEA ON I PROPOSED MERGE I Cold Weather Has Ilindere Operations to Some Extent. I C. B. Lakenan, general manager oft Nevada Consolidated properties at El has relumed to camp, after an abseni' of several weeks In the cist, where f vfslted for the benefit of his henlfj Upon his return, Mr. Lakenan Is quo' cd by tho Expositor as saying. ,' "Ely talk Is very much fn "cvldeni In the east, and the public thinks ; great deal of the district They, ! course, know it as a producing catri nnd while the copper camps of Arl'zoi are as well. If not better, known to 11 Insiders and their friends, Ely I3 camp on which tho great pubirc ha: their confldcifcc. " 1 "The copper interests in the eaat'j all active, and so aro all other interest Thero Is plenty of money in clrcuktiS and plenty ready for good Invcstmon The price of copper is bound to lm"pr$ for the reason that the consumption? on the Increase. It Is like cvoryUiii else, a matter of supply and demon The demand for copper is destined u Improve rather than decrease. For 01 thing, the electrlllc.-itlon of tho rallraai In the east will help this. It Is on tJ cards, that the Southern Pacific la $ ing to electrify Its road through the Sj; ras, for the reason that the hauls ovi heavy mountains can be made cheap with electricity than with steam.'' x About tho Merger. With regard to the merger. Mr Lak nan said that there had been, of coura a great deal of talk and a. groat d written, but he had nothing new to at to what has already been published. I said, though, that there was amlsa prehension as to the Utah Coppor a sorbins the Nevada Consolidated; th It was rather tho other way around.-.' "People do not stop to consider wbi the ratio of 21 to 1 means." said M Lakennn. "On 11 deal of that sorl, Uts Copper would get 750.000 shares, whl tho portion of the Nevada Con. wou be over 800,000. Will Continue at Capacity. Asked as to how soon the concentn tor would bo running In full blast agol Mr. Lakenan said that that would ha pen just as soon as tho weather mo erated. It was all up to the wcath for the only thing that was keoplng t production back was the necessity 1 being obliged to blnst the oro out of tl cars upon their arrival from tho pit the concentrator, J "There Is one roport that T would .11 to correct," said tho general managi "and that is that we have In contei platlon any curtailment of. our fprpeX our work. Wo Intend to work the cc ccntrator and smelter up to their t capacity. Everything is In shape loo Ing to that end. The pit Is keeping Its output, and the smeller has been, t ing the same. Wo arc running three,, the units at tho concentrator, and k pect soon to be operating tho fourt The output of tho reduction plant 61 experienced very littlo, if any. falling p the production of last month bolng atx 5.700,000 pounds." J |