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Show SEPTEMBER COPPER OUTPUT HOWS BUT SLIGHT DECLINE mnalderlng September was a short 3l . , h and 1- W. W. again attempted v htnict minliiR' progress, production t i3T 760 000 pounds of copper by twenty C i tie representative copper companies 3 ?!,, not compare unfavorably with An-" An-" it's output, the decline amount Inn; to : PJ: 4 851,000 pounds, says the Hoston S' Siiiva Bureau. Small as this decrease fr however. It was welcomed by the svi fmeries for this branch of the indus-' indus-' has been hard pressed since the first Vrte vear due to shortaso of labor. i' Anaconda was more seriously affected Wbor troubles than any other com-i com-i , ;nv last month. Its output of 21,800,-: 21,800,-: ffi i oounds fell off 3,100,000 pounds from "1 Jngrst ficures. and this was directly i.'! Sceable ito the tactics employed by tho 5 a t w W in the Butte district. These ": JWuxuers called mass meetinrjs of miners adopted resolutions demanding r absurd' wago Increases and posted pick-? pick-? eis at the various mines, heckling tho ' f'uthful workmen and doing everything nosslble to prevent the mines from op-S op-S enting This element, however, lias now : K,'on quelled and mining is proceeding as , telAtrejJlke superior there has been no noticeable improvement in the labor situation sit-uation but mining forces have not been 1 I depleted any further. K I The refining capacity of the country 5 I has been curtailed between 10 per cent and IT. per cent, duo lo shortage of workers. work-ers. This has occasioned the accumulation accumula-tion of a considerable amount of blister copper, which has led to the belief that consumption of the .metal was not as heavy as had been understood. With the exception of Cerro de Pasco, the South American producers registered substantial declines last month. It ' is estimated that within two years Chile will bo producing 200,000.000 pounds of copper per annum, Braden 150,000,000 pounds and Cerro de Pasco 100,000,000 pounds. In other words, within two years it Is predicted these three producers pro-ducers will be outpulting an aggregate of 450,000,000 pounds of copper a year from Latin-America. And this Is making no allowance for the potentialities potentiali-ties of Anaconda's Andes Copper company. com-pany. With all American mines at present producing at the rate of 2,400.000.000 pounds of smelter copper per year and with South America increasing its output out-put wiihin two years to 450.000,000 pounds, Tiome conception may be had of the prodigious outpouring of metal now being experienced and looming in the immediate future. Students of post-bellum post-bellum conditions in copper would do well to ponder over these figures. Attached table pictures output in September Sep-tember and the first nine months of this year, with comparisons: fi J" September. August. 9 mos., 191S. 9 mos., 1917. iijmeonaa. 21.S00.000 24,900,000 ' 229,SOO,000 1S9,023,000 Jfcuth 1''H5'252 W.W0.947 14S.S9S.596 .151,052.325 f Inspiration ''222'500 9.000,000 75,550,000 '69,650,000 5f Chlr.0 7,936,000 5,065,818 59.602,412 61.659.094 0 Miami 5'2!Hoi! 5.374.19S 44,273,S11 '32,061,611 t Ray H2,0?2 6.625,000 66,397,559 70,256,679 h Nevada Consolidated 6,6,0,41. 6,o00,000 59,530,415 59,SS7,350 i Phelps-Dodge 15,500.623 17,101,261 164,021,244 149,757,650 calumet & Arizona 4.S6S.0OO 4.376,000 38,S66,000 44,695,205 New Cornelia 3,744.000 3. 928,000 36.234,000 z Arizona Copper 4,330,000 4,300.000 34,760,700 Old Dominion 2,292,000 2,064,500 25,423,500 23,09'9,0fl6 East Butte 2,134,700 1,714,358 19,239,058 '14,025,340 C. & H. & Sub 10,341,468 10.71S.520 106,559,264 120,188,486 Granby 3,371,535 2,S20,207 31.156.1S6 29,699,925 I Greene-Cananea 4.900,000 6.000,000 38,770,000 x"8 580 000 Cerro de Pasco 6.150,000 5.7S6.000 54,262,000 52 575i000 KenneCOttT 5,50S,000 6,280,000 46,750,000 59,210 000 Chile 7,346.000 8,496,000 73,9S4,612 62,624,110 Braden 6,020,000 6,690.000 65,720,000 46,954,000 Total ... 150,760,606 155.660.S09 1.409,799,257 1,267,900 775 Closed down during summer on account of labor troubles. zDid not begin shipping until June, 1917. xProperty closed in July on account of disturbances in Mexico. |
