Show BUTTE DUTTE MINES SHUT SnUT TIGHT of if Amalgamated Decide to Curtail Production A it News Bureau Dureau special over the Pollock wires wi late laic yesterday telU tel I of directors director of ot the several subsidiary companies of the Amalgamated Copper company cl having lunIng decided upon radical radical measures Saturday to meet met the unfavorable conditions condition prevailing In the cop wp copper copper per trade trod U It I wu Wl was decided to suspend operations operation entirely at al all al the producing mines mine of the Butte Copper company cm with wih the single of the tho Boston boiton Montana mine where the business of o othe the great groat copper oler trust will wi bo ho conceit concen concentrated cne An accurate idea of the stag stagnation nation flatten nU u In lu the copper producing business of Montana can be l gained by th lh news new made public Saturday that only 1000 OM 00 pound poun of or copper were wee produced by the A m Ira Copper properties In Montana during November This amount m marks rk a decrease d re In production of more Ioe then than lh 70 il U p per r cent from the nor nr normal mal inal ml production Before action lon waa Wa taken to close dO down the smelter and ond butte I mino mIlt the situation was w carefully canvassed by b oltI of the Ule various Amalgamated ed 04 f subsidiary companies 01 There were I t at the tiie conference c which lasted lule three thI day d II 1 H n Rogers James JOn HUH HUHman man und and an William One Une af ut the tl conferees conferee maid aUl Ai There wa was W nothing ewe eUn to do but bUI to 10 cloe c di down n the li rInee I o Wn n the cut cost cut heel chest of ut the Ih aOI companies under restricted operations were scrutinised they showed a s Opper pp r co col cost t In semite somo 10 hi n Mane Jc a u so high OS K 20 I cents a pound iund We W could not very well resume operations In Lull full ful under existing metal trade trad 1 conditions so 1 there thore wa wu only one tiling thing to 10 do doI cloae down |