Show iE CONFERENCE LEGATES TES ARE I D DELAYED Ar D S Expected to Reach Salt Saltby Saltby by Midnight for M Meeting T Tomorrow orrow I Badger Badger Bros Dros Private Wire I ORK Dec 3 SlIver SIlver Silver price fix fix- practically agreed on at a conn con con- n Washington today The plan consideration contemplates control and distribution of the through a pooling of stocks The assured reasonable ers eri rg will be a the he government trains are aTe responsible for tor the ival at of practically all of at the dele clele- conference of t f ml- ml representing various states stales in rn stern Astern and intermountain districts that all will have hae 1 ait It lake before midnight to- to program for the meeting which is sider older the prospective price ar- ar for silver on the part of or the ment and the provisions of the x c law on excess profits and andI I ct mine investments cannot elY Iy Arranged until tomorrow I ut it i if i- ithe the expectation of oC A. A kenzie secretary of oC the Utah I Inzle t f the American Mining conat con con- canI I it at Senator William Villiam II H. King will departure for Washington at enough to formally open the tary Mackenzie announces announce that I Stung ng which will be held at the theal rat flat al club will be he open to all miHe ml- ml I He also alo requests that all allport port immediately upon their theirS 1 S ther ter er to the headquarters of oC the II 1 pter or to the tile Commercial club I nn with the federal Income cess profits tax which will be berid rid rfd at tomorrows tomorrow's conference the lumet Hecla is it given as an aniT I iT i of i ho the uncertainty as to S Its accountants are able to ton n tie Calumet Hecla stands to tor f r between 00 this veer veal by hy the govern govern- i ts s includes es the federal income I profits profil- deal 1 neal deal p d.-p upon the much j I of capital Investment eral authorities are willing to sums roms Invested In shafts and andas I leral Ings as plant expenditure expenditure- r b bp good o basis tasis a for r so do- do o I 1 f met I Hecla J can easily lf s show a I I capital invested If invested Mi in underground n i ito to bv bc excluded Calumets Calumet's r. r will be nearer Of Of larger thC the capital Investment I the ithe he exemption so that all that d a now is ill that it looks like IlkI a or or of somewhere beI be- be I I DOMO an anti or be bend be- be 5 q nd 30 per share shar I Io o 0 nys ny's Cost COM this year ear will chow increase over last Including I r O o of construction It ably bf be at 1 least Si cents per pera a j copper greater than the cast cost I its per pound in 1916 I of of Its fis export port copper as was wa delivered Europe basis th the j I lent and Insurance expenses I Rd d materially to the operating At one time lime the freight cost costI I ance was wae 86 6 per ton of ot 2240 Sore o ore e than likely ly that all aU of the Hecla subsidiary properties W a t production expense this year Wits per pel pound higher than In t I such additional expenditures jade de for construction I contemplates a change whereby it will not ten ltha the profits on copper 1 f though sale has been conIn con- con In other words its income pleasured only by the copper capper ac- ac I 1116 annual report followed Uler the Ule theof r sol Of anticipating profits to bo be popper which was not actually d 16 the early months of 1917 I I necessary in adjusting the 1917 S 0 the new basis bals to show nore fore than nine months' months bust bust- is year ear car |