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Show GRMBr WILL START NEW SMELTER SOOi I Two-thousand Tons Daily Capacity to Be Available in January. Eastern advlcos on Saturday wero to the effect that the management ofi'tho Granby company has exprossed tho determination de-termination lo have tho now smelting plant at tho Hidden Crook property In shape for operation early In tho coming com-ing January, tho dally capacity of this smelter to bo 2000 tons. It is at tho Hld-don Hld-don Creek mlno that tho company has been mooting with splendid success in tho past fow months in the development of new resources, and. there aro now developed, devel-oped, according to company estimates, ovor 17.000.000 tons of commercial grado copper rock, with dovolopmont effort virtually vir-tually only commenced. Granby has accomplished wondors during dur-ing the past year, emerging from what some experts deemed Its final dissolution atago to tho proportions of a modern, llrst-class copper proposition. The task confronting tho management was a tremendous tre-mendous one, but shareholders will agree unanimously iuai inoso in cnarge nave accomplished the desired end both efficiently effi-ciently and speedily. In August the Granby production of ro-fined ro-fined copper measured 3.S47.3M pounds, aB compared with 1.970.3SS pounds In the satno month of 1912, as compared with nono In 1911, owing to tho plant being closed, and .1,430,315 pounds in August. 11)10. For tho first eight months of 1913 tho fine copper output has measured M,-I7(",CS1 M,-I7(",CS1 pounds, as compared with H,7Sl,r S25 pounds for tho same period of 1912: 10,fi(j,706 pounds for the same period of 1911, and l-i.6GC.21S pounds in 1910. Tho ores handled last month totaled 09.-CU 09.-CU tons of Granby ore, 20S1 tons of foreign for-eign ores, a total of 101,722 tons smelted. The 1914 record at tho Granby will be decidedly gratifying, unless nil present Elgns fall. |