Show RAY CON PRODUCES COPPER AT COST OF NIN NINE CENTS A POUND Colonel D. D C. C Jacking returned on a l b belated train last night from one of his lila regular inspection trips to the Ray Kay and Chino copper properties in Arizona and New Mexico When hel seen at his local Offices this morning he lie was In a happy frame of mind ruled over oyer the copper metal situation and said that those who ho had ha occasion to differ with wih the views h he took last laft summer were now among the number num num- her ber bpI who took a very Ery optimistic stand for forthe the future of the th metal market Dr Ir Douglas Doulas tf l. l who thought Ott h the porphyry P production pro pro- rg 1 was nag lol sure to become e a burden on th the market and that hat Colonel Tackling was mistaken In his hi opinion that there would soon be bp bl a a. higher market marItaL price for copper oPPer has since gone one on record as predicting predicting Ire Ire- pre pre- 15 5 cents a 1 pound as the price for tor copper Coppel by April 1 With c Colonel reference 1 n Jackling c to the hepa said southern U Ui that i n at properties properties prop prop- the RR Ray the thE production for fOI November had amounted to pounds pound of ot copper or 01 at the rate of ot about pounds annually The pro production for tor December will wili wl be about the same ame ax as they are treating an average AvErage of or a 0 little less lass than tons of ot or ore dal dally daily The They ar are arc Improving improving In ing operating operating- conditions at the new concentrating ronI ron eon plant an and operating on a more I systematic basis basi The only question now Is the matter mater of building up the 11 tonnage underground b before fore an increased production production production tion can can be made and this will il take some I tm time When the RA Ray I Ii I relieved of or Its Il exIstIng existing exist exIst- ing tr freight l h charge In shipping its I concentrates eon con n- n to the El E PASO PRO smelter smaller the cost will wi b be about 9 3 cents a pound polled un under nfl un- der iler existing capacity This Thi too on its Is lower grade pado ores OrS which ar are lower than the he average avera of or the th mine as the extraction extrac tion ton 1 is If ling being made mad from the upper portion porton por por- lion tion ton of or the ore zones nearer the thO surface and Ind adjacent 10 to the th capping Five sections of the mill mi ha have been en In Int Ino operation o at times m but there 1 in scarcely enough ore t for four rb sections W The fifth f section has lisa been given I en a. a a tryout and ant al alterations al- al tet are re being made Iode The T 1 principal alteration alerton in the readjustment of the mill mi for handling the na Ray flay ores has hal bp been n the addition AddIton of or more morl classifiers and nd extension nl n beyond the th original orl plans This Installation lion tion ton has consisted of two morn lnOre mOrl banks of ot classifiers to each section lection of ot the plant The metallurgical r results of op operations at the Ray have ha been en excellent No more sections will be 1 started until the mine production approximates tons dally daily daly al as It has lisa been demonstrated that each of the four sections now In operation can treat trat from 1200 to 1250 1260 tons dally daily Part of ot the concentrates concentrate from frem the mill 11 will willbe willlie wi be lie J. J turned over pr o to the new Ray flay ny smelting plant January 1 1 and an it I will wi be April Apri 1 before nil all l the concentrates are diverted from the El Paso m smelter r. r These changes change will made 1 result resul to th the thu in II a 1 earnings substantial addition additon being bing |