Show smelters are cutting down on big shipments t e most ot of the large ore shippers of utah have holve received orders from the smelters to cut down on their ship ments tor for the present at least this Is effecting most of the shippers from the lead silver camps there la Is still a good demand tor for copper ore some of 0 the heavy shippers of lintle have received orders some of the park city producers produce Ts are already curtailing their shipments somewhat and other camps are effected even the cop shipments from outside the state amare being cut f several reasons are given for the action on the part of the smelters SN which may last from 30 to 60 days one Is that the winter accumulation ot of ores Is now coming in and the af plants are running at full capacity aa at present prices the smelters are jar wow unwilling to accumulate stockpile stockpiles and there is more than sufficient ore in sight now to continue at full blast throughout the summer the small m producers are all in the market with ys jm w ore and this surplus will have to be absorbed most of the ores at pre sent are being taken by contract and wath an opportunity to pick what iskiw they want the smelters are taking in what will give the greatest and quickest results As it takes days for the smelt ers to realize on their product they are protecting themselves against any quick declines in the metal mar ket fah never in the history of 0 utah has tl ti ere been tl ti e amount of ore smelt ed in as short a time as during the present ear indications are that the amount of ore handled this year will be well over 10 tons tolls and oer o er 10 per cent more than last year As metal prices have thus been better than 60 per cent higher than last year the total production t will be close to 90 as corn coin kaied with 55 last lear ear ir manager jackson mcchrystal of t the tile gemini and other local mines was out from tl e capital yesterday 1 I an assessment of one fourth cent per snare share has been leviel by the swansea extension mining company the recent asse assessment of halt a cent per share on the stock of the tintic gintic central mining company will lecome delinquent on the f july sale day for delinquent stock steel is august ath within the last nine weeks the rid scranton mine in north has shipped 35 cars of zinc ore from the leasing work being done this aver ages from 30 to 32 per cent the lead ore being shipped ave averages rabes 20 per cent |