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Show COPPER PRGDUGTIDH BREAKS ALL RECORDS Output in the United States Passes Two Billion Pound Mark in 1915. WASHINGTON, April 29. Stimulated Stimulat-ed .by the enormous demand resulting from the war, copper production in the United States reached and passed the 2.000,000,000-pound mark for the first time in the history of the industry last year. In a statement issued today, the tinted States geological survey placed the total production of copper from all sources at 2,026,000,000 pounds. Smelter Smel-ter productions of primary copper was 1,388,000,000 pounds, a record quantitv. That was 238.000,000 pounds more than produced in 1914, or an increase of 21 per cent. The total value of the 1915 smelter output of primary copper, at an average price of 1 7.5 cents a pound, was $242,900,000, an increase of $90,-000.000 $90,-000.000 over 1914. Products of primary and secondary copper by regular refining plants amounted to 1.693,779,133 pounds, in-: eluding 246.498,925 pounds of foreign origin and 59,574,090 pounds from the secondary material treated. Plants 1 treating secondaiy material exclusively produced 332.700.ii00 pounds in addition.! Stocks of refined copper at the beginning begin-ning of 1 9 To amounted to 1 73.640.501 pounds, and at the close of the year 82,429.666 pounds, a decrease during the i year of 91,210.535 pounds. In addition I to the stocks at the close of 1915, there i were at smelters, in transit and at re- ! fineries 274. 000,00 pounds. ' Consumption of copper in the United! States was the greatest ever recorded in anv year. Retined new copper showed an a ppareut con bum prion of about I.OOO.Of'O pounds, an increase j of 423'00.0") pounds over the 1914 I consumption. Adding the 392.27 i.O'.'O j uounds of secondary copper and --oppcr in all oy s p rod need d u ri n g the y ea r brings un the total of new ;tnd old enp-ppr enp-ppr available fo' domestic consumption to about 1 . 135.0ui;uiiim pounds. Tee export? ex-port? of refined copper during the ve:ir was 6m .!:;. :n"n pounds. |