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Show BUTTE & SUPERIOR TREATS BIG TONNAGE Special to The Tribune. BUTTF, June 22. Although more ore was treated in the oil flotation plant of the Butte & Superior during May than April, several hundred tons less of concentrates were secured, at a higher high-er cost and the value per ton dropped $18.24 a ton, according to the report of the operations in May, tiled in the federal fed-eral court in Butte yesterday in compliance com-pliance with an order of the court made in November, 1913, in the oil process controversy between the Minerals Separation Sepa-ration company, Ltd., of London, against the Butte & Superior. In May 50,(388 tons of ore were treated treat-ed at a cost of $8.22 a ton to secure 11.658 tons of concentrates valued at $65.25 a ton. In April 50,112 tons of ore were treated at a cost of $2.84 a ton, to secure 12,080 tons of concentrates, concen-trates, valued at $83.79 a ton. During March 52,089 tons of ore were treated at a cost of $2.69 a ton to secure 12,199 tons of concentrates, valued at $93.62 a ton. In February 49.S00 tons of ore were treated, at a cost of $2.52 a tou, to secure 10,775 tons of concentrates, valued af $93.56 a ton. |