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Show HDA MM 15 H1JKIT! Absorption Decreasing and Furnace Now Producing 60 Flasks a Week The furnace of Nc ada - nnabar compan the m ne of hlc are lo ated at lone P cse t p oduc ng about Ixt fa s or in cki e a eok A car as b pp d st eak o the eas em n arket ich con alned 356 f asks of t e c a d acord og to the an agen ent e fu ace vv produce t om now on a ar per on ?he present Scott furnace was brougl t up to the rqqu red heat of 350 degrees Fahrenhe t ast Maj nd since that time its walls la e Wn ap orbing the quick silver to sucl aj extent that the pro duAion of tl e meta from the ore m ned has been ess than the o e assayed At present however the a is ha e bome or, th 1 clarged a d the metal is be tinning to flow from the furnace In an ScYeasW o una. The management is coking forward to tl e time in the near fut re when the fu nace wt 1 be o thor oughly charged witl the n etal that the normal produ tion J 1 be obta ned. At the beginning of the European war the metal was quoted In New York and San Francisco at $3 50 per flask of sev enty five pounds. Te price has beeu fluctuating between that point and the S100 mark at vhich price small lots were , so d recently Larger lots however Ur ns ! III the vay from $45 per flask to S7o per task which was the price obtained recently by the Nevada C nnabar com rany for a car that was slipped to New The pred ctions In the trade axe to the ettict that the price of the n etal i 111 go considerably higher than it is ( at present. It is now in the neighbor b Hood of SaO per flask Those conversant F -with, the use to which tl e metal is put I ray that the war in Europe in which I vast quantl les of exp oslves are being sed will drive up tl e price of the metal They also point to the fact that ,, ffie production of A t ia has been sert K , ously curtailed desp te the need of the L' metal for the manufacture of fulminate IT tops and other forms of explosives. |