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Show AMALGAMATED MAY EilERJM FIELD Rumor That the Gigantic Copper Corporation Will Manufacture Red Metal. PRAISE FOR JOHN D. RYAN Some of the Things Accomplished Within the Past Twelve or More Months. Special lo The Tribune. NEW YORK. April 21. It was rumored ru-mored In tho financial district today that the Amalgamated Copper company plans an early entrance into the manufacturing manufactur-ing field. Efforts to obtain confirmation confirma-tion of those reports were not successful success-ful up to a lato hour. In this connection connec-tion a stock exchange house said: "John D. Ityan has done more for the benefit of the Amalgamated Copper company com-pany within the past twelve months than took place In tho preceding ten j'ears of tho company's history. The first big move was tho unification of the properties in the Butte camp under control con-trol of tho Anaconda, and this lias been practically accomplished. The second Important step was on the operating end. and. under the aggressive management of B. 13. Thayer, president of tho Anaconda Ana-conda company, copper costs havo been cut down to 1) cents, which is as low a cost as has ever been attained in Butte. The next step was to bring about economics econ-omics in tho sale of copper, tlds being dono through the elimination of the United Metals Selling company. "The above Is Important work lo be accomplished In one year, and it has been dono without any blowing of trumpets trum-pets and is Indicative of still further developments in the copper world which will be under tho direction of John D. Ryan." |