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Show BUTTE-SUPERIOR TO HAVE INSTALLED A REDUCTION PLANT Charles M. MacNeill, president of the Utah Copper company and allied companies, will arrive in Halt Lake City tomorrow. At night the special car of I). C. Jaekiing will be attached to the Butte train and Messrs. MacNeill Mac-Neill and Jaekiing will leave for the big Montana mining camp. nome special significance might be attached to this visit from the fact that it might be construed that the magnates of the porphyry mining field were invading the big territory almost entirely owned by the Amalgamated crowd. A move of this sort would naturally nat-urally lead to a revival of talk regarding regard-ing a mammoth copper merger, or a new agreement which would have a bearing on the production from the eonper mines of this coantry. When Mr. Jaekiing waa approached for a statemeut he said that he and Mr. MacNeill were going on a little trip, and that they would stop at Butte while he made an inspection of the Butte and Superior properties. He will inspect the mine operations and make his recommendations as to the construction of a reduction plant. It is a large zinc proposition, and Mr. Jaekiing will make a complete report for Hayden-Htone A Co., who are understood un-derstood to have some interests in the financing of the proposed mill plant. 1 This property is a large producer and has been shipping its output to the Basin reduction plant twenty-eight miles from Butte. The owners have decided to put in their own plant for the commercialization of these base ores, expecting thereby to do away with the haul from the mine and make a saving of treatment charge as well. The plan is to build a 500-ton concentrator, concen-trator, the deaiirn nf which will he according to recommendations mad by Mr. Jaekiing, In about one week they will meet Mr. Kcrlea at Kly and an inspection nf th Nevada Consolidated mine, - the smelting and concentrating plant at MrGill and th Nevada Northern railroad rail-road will be made. Ho far aa ran be learned there is no apecial significance in Mr. Mac.Veill'a western trip at this time, though there arc a number of things in the west in which he ia interested in-terested that are in splendid condition for personal inspection. |