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Show UTAH COPPER IS NOW ON FULL TIME Salt Lake, April 29 Due to the ?.d vance in the price of copper, the L'tah Copper company Is now operating at full capacity. The payroll amounts to &bout $32,000 per month, and it is expected ex-pected that the copper production during April will reach 11,00 000 pounds With all adjustments made at the mine and the mill it is estl matea that during May the company will produce more than 13,000,000 pounds of the red metal. At the time that war was declared the payroll of the Utah copper company com-pany amounted to about $365,000 per month This included the mine, the mills and the Ringham & Garfieid railroad When the curtailment policy went into effect the pa.vroll was cut down to about $180,000 per month. Everything possible was done by the company to keep the organization It had taken so many years to build up together Thl6. was accomplished bv putting the men on half time, and doing do-ing away with all work that was not absolutely necessary. This plan has resulted in the company being prepared pre-pared to again reach normal production produc-tion in a short period of time. The Utah Copper companv carries about 36.000,000 pounds of the red metal, due to the fact that the re fined product does not reach the market mar-ket until three months after it is mined At the time war was declared the company had on hand in the neighborhood of 50,000.000 pounds, which has since been disposed of Practically every porphyry company is now running at full capacity and f many of the producing companies have sold out up to September. Chlno, Ray' Consolidated and the Nevada Consolidated are all operating either at full capacity or very close to full capacity, and are rapidly increa-slnx production. Mining men conversant ' with the copper nmrket claim tnai 'there fa no fear of overproduction and state that there ia more likely J to he a period of copper famine than of overproduction. Many are predict 20-cpnt copper In the near future A |