Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-10-17 | Page 13 | Curtailed Output of Porphyry Mines in September

CURTAilED OUTPUT Of PORPHYRY MINtS MINES V IN SEPTEMBER V Official figur figures s of the Copper production t lion tion ou from the tho Jackling Porphyry mines during September wore were available n today Under the orders for l the th mines are aro credited with nith tho tire following production Rn Consolidated Puy-Consolidated C C ln pounds Utah Copper pounds Chino Copper TheM figures ures show that bilt each el of th the companies c has mot met the requirement imposed im mi- mi posed upon tipon it when tho the curt curtailment nt or orders dora ders wore vore ia issued and each mine mme is 18 now producing on the tho basis bams of oC 50 l' l per r cent of the tonnage under normal conditions When the announcement waR wa first But made some somo engineers rr were re und under r tho the impression sion that it w would be l impossible to mako the sudden change chango demanded on BO ire short a P. notice Thov Tho even went so eo far as ts to venture that cither a lar larger er than Q 0 per Jer cent production would bo be shown or else tho the ardor would have havo the effect of showing shoeing a much smaller output out output put than had haJ been I Ea Eaph h department of th these sc companies is i un under er much better control th than h operators generally generall thought world ol d ho 00 pl possible where tho tiro work IN is c carried on on on such an exten extensive i e scale Tho fact that tho management has absolute control of each eaIr detail portion of oC theta o immense mineral estates estoes t t S was never nevermore nevermore more e conclusively born horn out than by the Iho present excellent order of thiD things tI Tho The combined production of these three pro pro- d which normally is h pounds a month or better has hRS been cut m tn halves almost t over o ni night ht and the immense reduction plants lIW shut up lip one half of their crushers aa and tables without BO so much a as a hitch in n tho tire operations oper of tho remaining portions of the thc mills It is i c evident that Colonel Jackling does not these producers to bo be rehabilitated ai as quickly as irs 5 they were reduced hut that he does docs expect them to gradually resume until a n normal basis basil I is again reached is clear claar in in his hin recent statement The treatment nt of a n larger huger tonnage is is only a n matter of a short time a as thoro is is a gradual radl improvement in demand denland for copper