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Show GOOD, SMCKLl. Managing Director of Utah Copper Company Here on Flying Visit. INCREASING OUTPUT New York Conditions Favorable, Fa-vorable, With Peace Talk Causing Tension. t'olurn'l P. C. Jar-klin. managing di-rfrtnv di-rfrtnv of the Utah C.ippfr company, the Chlno C(ip)r company, the Nevada Consolidated Con-solidated Copper curnpuny and the Alaska Oulr Mines company, reached Halt Lake y-Hteiidny afternoon on his way from New Vrjik to Sfiu Fmn-l-s''!). Colonel Jarklfng will h.) hr-.m fevci-al diiya In connultrttion with looal nffh-L-rs of the Utah Copper roinpnny b.-i'nre he resumes his Journey to the roast. "If you want mo to toll you something about local conditions, I am not yet able to do ho," mi Id the K'-neral mining magnate mag-nate yesterday afternoon, adding: "1 have onlv heen In town an hour find have not yet had an opportunity to discuss details. de-tails. ' Talks of Copper. "What Is tho Hituation as to the copper cop-per market?" was asked. "I believe," said Colonel JackKng, "that the foppor outlook Is K'tod. There will douhtliM.s be new buying noon, for the prodm t of the Utah Cupper and the other oth-er companies in which 1 tun concerned is sold far ahi'ud. ! A question as to the present high quo tation for cupper J):M 7a: brought the explanation that this hy no means represented repre-sented tho price at which sales had been contra'-ted this year. These high levels, he aald, wore for small lots of spot copper cop-per ajid that the greater portion of sales A head hy the Uta h Copper company had been made at figures ranging from Hoc to CTc. Expanding Capacity. Convinced of the steady maintenance In the demand for copper. Colonel .tackling paid, that aside from the recent augmentation augmen-tation of capacity at the Utah Copper company, the Chino was raising its capacity ca-pacity to approximately 12,500 tons of ore daily and would he ready to handle that amount of ore within a year or a year and a half. At the Ray Consolidated, where the plant now handles 8n00 tons of ore daily, alterations and Improvements Improve-ments that will increase the capacity ' from 1000 to l".no tons more per day are In course of construction. I Of the Alaska On Id Mines company Colonel Jackllng said that the amount of ; ore fieatcd was now approximately 5000 totis per day, and that even though the ! Alaska winter had set in there were plans for nn Increase In the capacity and i a greater saving of values to he effected I before spring. i Business Under Rush. ; Colonel Jackllng suid that, generally speaking, business conditions in New York were fxcellcnt, but that the peace talk proposals had, rightly or wrongly, had some effect upon the market. He said, however, that the business of the ; country was upon too sound and stable a basis to be vltallv disturbed bv anv action that might follow,, holding that even if the world war should be terminated termi-nated at once the old world would still require not only copper from America, hut many other products that this country furnishes. The outlook for silver, he said, was also auch as to lead the careful care-ful observer to believe that the price would be at least maintained. |