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Show ORE SHIPMENTS FALL OFF. Trouble In Mexico Threatens to Injure the Smelting Business. KANSAS CITY. March 15. While tho insurrection in Mexico has not affected trade In general In t lie United States. It has caused a. big decrease In the importations impor-tations of lead and zinc ores, according to officials of the United States customs office hero today. The amount of ore shipped through El Paso to be assayed here has fallen o(T more than twenty curs a day. say the inspectors. Shipments of ores through Douglas, Ariz., an important point of entry, have also been seriously Interfered with. Lead and zinc are still being received through Eag'o Pass and Laredo. Tex., but it is said that unless the shipments of American Ameri-can dynamite- to the Mexican mines is soon resumed practically all Importations of the ores will cease. |