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Show GOLD ROADS OUTPUT WILL BE DOUBLED Property Now Classed Among Largest Gold Mines in the Country. The statement that the United States Smelting. Retlnltig 4 Mining company has decided to double the daily capacity of Us Gold Roada mill In Arlxona, calls attention anew to this purchase during 1910, the property beinc recognised as one of the largest rold minee hi the country The company with the existing exist-ing equipment Is producing flO.QOO worth of sold bullion a month, and when the management has the advantage of the new equipment planned the monthly output out-put should be close to $200,000, for enough of the high grade will be used to sweeten the lower class of ore now being treated. The purchase price of this property was understood to have been about 200.OOO, and It was the only p.-opsrty pur. chased that year by the I nlted States company. As shown In the report of Vice President Jennings there were 6S mines examined with I view of purchase during lfiio, nd only one, the Gold Roads, was nequlrod. The Gold Roada. It Is agreed. Is as hip a mine as such a drastic dras-tic elimination proce.-:i would le.id one to conclude. The United States company usually Is referrod to as a copper producer. It Is one of the big red metal factoro. but in Mexico It owns somo of the largest silver mines In the world. In T'tah It owns nil -ver, gold, lend and sine mines in addition ad-dition to copper, and now with the Gold Roads It hon one of the prreateat western west-ern gold properties It Is this happy combination or diversity of assets which enables the officials to produce e uniform uni-form amount of metal regardless of metal market conditions, emphasizing such or easing up on such bh the market mar-ket price of the metals Involved render necessary |