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Show D. G. MUMS DEN1ESJVSEREER Says the Amalgamated Has Not Secured Control of Utah Copper. PAYS COMPLIMENT TO CHARLES U. DIGN0WITY Mr. Jackling Further Says Merger Mer-ger Is Not Under Consideration. Con-sideration. D. G. Jackling, vice president? and goneral manager of ' tho Utah Coppor company, stated Stmdny night that thoro was no truth in the special dispatch dis-patch from New York, based on a cablegram ca-blegram from London undor date, of July 211, to tho effect that' tho Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper company liad bought con-, troi of Utah Coppor. Ho said, furthermore, further-more, that inasmuch as thore is no truth in tho buying control story l.'hnt the rumor of the big counti'y-wido copper cop-per merger falls flat. With regard to tho statement made by Charles U. Dignowity of Salt .Lake City, in an interviow at the Waldorf-Astoria, Waldorf-Astoria, to tho effect that the cablegram cable-gram "hit near tho truth." Mr. Jackling Jack-ling said: "Tho gentleman who is purported to havo given an interview in .New York is not iu a position to speak authoritatively of tho copper situation sit-uation in tho Avesfc. I don't think that ho over held any intorosts in any copper cop-per property in fids section that over produced anything." By Avay of cinchiug hifl statements as to tho roportcd purchase of control in the Utah Copper by the Amalgamated Amalgama-ted Copper, Mr. Jackling said: "Thoro is absolutel3r nothing to it, and so far as I knoAv, thero is absolutely nothing of tho sort undor consideration." Engineers in District. T.n tho Now York interview, Mr. Dignowity stated that ho had received information from London that arrangements ar-rangements virtually had been perfected per-fected for a merger of tho great? copper cop-per interests of tho world on a basis rpiito similar to that which has made so signal a success of the steel trade. Ho is reported to have said, further, that a represent'atiFe of tho Utah Copper Cop-per company, John D. Ryan, president of tho Amalgamated Copper company, and othor big men in tho business, Avero in London, and they had entered into an arrangement with tho Rothschilds, the Baron Ilirsch crowd and othor groups of English capitalist's especially especial-ly interested m copper, whereby pro-dr-tion is to be controlled. A Avell-known local stock broker stated last night that it Avas known among tho brokerage fraternity that the Amalgamated croAvd had enginoors in the Bingham district who were making mak-ing examinations of various copper properties. The object; of those examinations ex-aminations has not been disclosed, but it is statod that if the Amalgamated does not get into the Utah Copper, it will attempt to get control of oher properties in tho district. |
