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Show . XiABQS COPPEH OUTPUT. - - ..-.urVn ' from Bntu, Moat., "ssys: Butt o&tpot of copper for the calendar yer will ba around, 830,000.000 to 840,000.-000 840,000.-000 pounds, and for the fi.cal year, andinc tn firit of next Jane, the production will bo very mnch larger, probably 850,000,000 pounds. . . ' "If the prie of copper remains at or near tno preaent OfTirea and plan now under way lor increasing the ora and copper output era completed, th Butte production within the neat eighteen months or two years will ba almost doubled. The minea of th Anaconda company wUl not ba able to increase their production more than probably 5 to 8 per cent, but North Butt will increase fully 60 per cent and Butt Coalition will probably raisa it ore production from ita present output of about 1000 tons daily to 4000 or SOOO tons per day. , "East Butte, Pittsburg and-Montana, Butte Copper,. La Franca and aereral other companies com-panies will become big producers within s year fend half. Butt Copper Exploration, Butte and Bacorn and Butt and London may also be in th producing elaaa by that time, while it ia certain that Butt and Superior Su-perior will be hoisting good tonnage within year. .... - . The October output of the ' district was about 28,900,000 pounda, produced from bout 873,000 tona of or. - . . V |