Show COPPER MINES Of I LAKE REGIONS I They Showed an Increased Out Output Output put pill of Red Metal During Last Year SOME CURTAILMENT NOTES Production nt at Tvr Jorty lurly Jorl Million Hoe ord of or Other ot Vr r rOt I lOt Ot all cli ni ho the Ihl copper of the 1 States says arty a I Houghton Mich correa correri tho the Luko Superior district Is iu I tho tile only ono that shows shota an nn Increased output in 11 1906 Arizona Utah Ulah Call Cali California cal fornia arnie and probably Montana IR as well wel would have shown gains but for the tha general reduction of ot forces fore or closing down clon noted in the tIle western fields during the lie latter Illel half of or the tho year In II the tho lake district the Bigelow mints mines which nr arl are rather closely allied with this the Ih Amalgam Amalgamated havo have reduced forces and pro production production ducton but none of o the other mines havo paid lilly any to the tho reduction tion lon In lii II prices and Ild thu th general India hulla hullabaloo huJa baloo of the tho metal market ml Tile The action ot or the mines In reducing force Is not nol ot liked locally catly l and an will wi not flat add to tho the popularity of tho tie eastern man management In II the Ih light fight now on between thu Calumet Hecla had Ind the people for control of ot the Osceola The Tho production of or refined copper by Lake Lako L ke Superior mines for the year par 1808 1006 was pounds theno figures being about pounds greater gealer than any Iny previous estimate but being final be Ire cause obtained direct from each cach re ic reporting porting company The Tho ho error In previous ous IUS cus figures was wa contained In iii tho the Ir pro production duclon of the tho Calumet Hecla given g en erroneously as pounds while the actual production was wac pounds poun s For Loi Ol 1907 1 07 the production was WM about the same annie though probably a trifle greater and the Calumet lice Hec Hecla liceIa la Ia has ha been bon for three years post past the largest producer ot or copper coper of any mint mins In Iii th the world The Tle 1907 output of o the tho lake lako district as a whole Is approximately approximately 2000 pounds a I gain of ot a it I bettor better betel tItan than 45 5 per cent Lake Lako Superior copper production first ex cx exceeded ceded pounds In 1004 and never neer was ns as ns great as pounds until 1901 1001 while In 1895 the output was only pounds or 01 a n more mor than half as ns great as ni In 1907 Twenty years earl ago no In Iii 1887 tho the production was WI only pounds poun R or less lees than a third an nH much as a was made mado in the year fal Just passed Strong efforts have havo been made mid a to lo In Induce duce the tha big lake Inke mines to join John the lending producers of ot other fields Olds In re restricting production but without effect In the CaSO e of i the Bigalow mines minesa as aa a previously h noted In this thin refusal to restrict production or o combine with wih other producers the lake litke mines are uro Lot fol following Sowing lowing the precedents of half a I century |