Show BUTTE BUTT MINES RESUME BUTTE DUTT Mont March 2 All Al All mines mine of the Copper Butte Bute Coalition Co alton and North orth Butte Bute resumed to today All 1 will ni be working worling full ful force as o soon n nas' nas as as' as tho they can get in shape I am glad plad lat to be able to brin brn to the people of Montana and aud particularly to the people of Butte Bute and aud An Anaconda conda the news that on Monday morning morin next all al of the tho mines of Anaconda Washoe Butte Bute anti and the tho Washoe smelter will wi re resume resume reo sume work and that incident to thi this resumption resumption re reo re- re work will wi again aJain bo be carried eu on 01 at the lumber camps and coal mines controlled b by tho the Amal Amalgamated mated compan company com corn pany pan and shipments of custom ores and lining ores oreg will wi bo ho received as usual at atthe atthe atthe the smelter said John D. D Ryan h head ad adof of the tho Amalgamated interest in iu Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana tana on his arrival at Butte Tute Saturday noon There has his been a very verj- consid consid- e for the thc better beter in tho the market market mar mar- ket for the metal in this thiB that the tho tales for European shipment have o ba been beenen very cry en enlar lar large e within the last few weeks and there is no accumulation of copper sold that is worth considering The American Amer ican lean consumption is l light t ht us com coni- om pared lured with wih the tho last i row few w years car and thear the tho largo ar o sales made for the tho last six fix mouths have ha c been mo mostly t. t for export but we wo Broin Bro aro in hopes that by br the time the increased product resulting from a resumption of operations will wi have havo o ha reached the market mar nar ket Iet which will wi be in three or four months mouths the tho American American demand will wi havo have jn increased sufficiently to take tako up the increased iu in creased creaMed production At t the time the mines in Butte Butto Buta were c ed in December the metal market was was in a more snore deplorable condition condition con con- diton and the whole financial world was as in such a state that had bad the Butte Bute mines gone on producing to their full ful capacity tho the result might have havo been such b demoralization of tho the metal market mar mur ket that it would not have righted itself for a very cry lon long time but on account of the thc curtailment of production and arid tho the ver very good abroad abroad tho the metal market is now in a healthy state tate although al al though the price at which h copper is it selling is below what considerably beloW can be called caled reasonable and in my opinion much belo below what it will wi be as soon as general Jeneral business conditions improve c in inthis inthis this thi country county Butte Bute has bas for a n quarter of a ecu cen tury held the first position in copper mining and md those who are aro heat best informed havo bAO no 10 doubt it will wi continue to maintain main main- tam tain that position indefinitely The mines are physically in better beter condition than thau over ever before in un I the history his tor tory of the camp and it only requires economy Sn and efficiency in all al operations to make Buttes Butto's copper at nt a co cost t that will it to maintain a stead wi it steady production pro at whatever price copper in is over e likely to sell In other words I Iam Iam Iam am ready to sa say that Butte Bute can produce pro duce duco an and sell Acl its copper when any an anther other ther district in the tho world can do it it i. i nut But But in times ties of depression in iii il general business such as ns wo 0 e sec ec now it is absolutely I necessary ar that e cr every economy bo ho practiced both in the thc mining and smelting as us well wel as in in the thC transportation of or orore and in all affect affect af af- af- af ores ore al that go o to lect the cost of product man nina in inthe thin the employ of these companies wilt will wi be called upon to put pta forth his bis best efforts ef cf efforts forts to make mako po possible gihle the tho lowest loest cost for copper that have been heen seen in the Butte Bute camp canup and no man amass from the highest hugh high est cst official down can eau retain his luls position pogi tion ton who does docs not lt show a disposition to tri 4 the very ery best that is is in in him during such tunes times na as IS these There is to bo ho no reduction made in inthe inthe inthe the wa wages es of an any employees of these companies but n a greater c efficiency than over ever before is nece necessary ary r an arid and must be bad had H I |