Show AIMACONDA OUTPUT SLIGHTLY CURTAILED j BUTTE Mont Aug 8 After learning that the Utah- Copper company and com panics in the Lake Superior con per dls trict bad announced a 50 per cent reduc tlon until the copper market i proved Con F Kelley vice president of the Ana conda Copper Mining company today is sued this statement There have been persistent rumors that the Anaconda Copper M nlng company contemplated shuttting down additional mines During the past few days every effort posslb e has been made to arrive at some plan which wou d enable the company o prevent further curtailment and en able it to continue emploving at least as many men as are now employed It Is need ess to say that the situa tlon which confronts the copper pro ducers brought about by reason of the fore gn war involving every for e gn copper consuming nation to gether with the profound Industrial depression In the United States s without parallel in the history of the bus ness Every energy of the offl cers of the company at tl e eastern end as we 1 as locally has been de voted to meet ng this s tuatlon As a result it isbelieved that It wl 1 not be necessary to close any add tional mines but that al now operating w 1 be ab e to cont nue ope ating at least five days a week. It w be the object of the company to keep as many men emp oyed as posslb and particularly those of its e np oyees who are n arried or who have others dependent upon them I trust at the s tuatlon w 11 be apprec ated and that affairs wl 1 so shape themse es that an early resumption wl 1 be pos s b e T s depends upon cond ons which are beond the contro of any one But I wish to give the ass r ance that everything hat it is pos s b e to do is be ng done to re eve the s tuatlon More than 60 per cent of t e no ma output w 1 be produced The Great Fa s sme ters have been c osed but the "Washoe smelter at Anaconda will be kept open There have been reductions in the um ber m 1 ng branches of the company o keep the timber output norma v. t ne consumption |