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Show SMELTERS TO REOPEN; MEN CALLED BACK SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 25 (U.R) Mine and smelter re - opening announcements today brightened the western mining outlook as officials told of scheduled resumption of work at Butte, Mont., and Murray and Tooele, Utah. C. P. Kelley, of New York City, president of the Anaconda Copper Cop-per Mining company, announced that the company's two remaining remain-ing suspended mines at Butte would resume operations by Nov. 1. Approximately 8000 men will then be on the Anaconda payroll in Butte, compared with a lpw of 2000 during the recent widespread shutdowns. Kelley, who stopped in Salt Lake City briefly while enroute to Los Angeles to attend the western west-ern division of the American Mining Min-ing congress, said that conditions were "decidedly better" in the copper industry. "We feel rather optimistic about the situation," he said. Coincident with Kelley's visit was announcement by the International Inter-national Smelting and Refining Co., a subsidiary of the Anaconda company, that their processing plant at Tooele will reopen Nov. 7. The resumption of operations at Tooele will provide work for 150. It was shut down last June. The American Smelting and Refining Re-fining company announced that its lead plant at Murray will reopen re-open following a five-months shutdown. Approximately 300 workers will be re-employed. Better position of world metal markets resulting from increased demand and a sharp decrease of stocks was the reason attributed to the reopening announcements. The reopening of International's Tooele plant was expected as a result of the scheduled resumption resump-tion Nov. 1 of the Rio Tinto mine of the Mountain City Copper company, com-pany, an Anaconda subsidiary, at Mountain City, Nev. The first ore will cleave Mountain City Nov. 5, and will arrive in Tooele two days later, at which time the processing plant will open, J. O. Elton, manager man-ager of the company, said. |
