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Show BUTTE MINES TO STAY ON 50 PER CENT BASIS BL'TTL, Mont , Jan 15. Production Produc-tion In the Butte mines now run ning on a 4o per cent capm liy L : i Is to continue for some time on the present scale, according to announcement announce-ment by John Gillie, general manager of the Anaconda Copper company's mines here. An effort will be made at all mines, he said, to keep married mar-ried men and the older employ at work Copper is piling up and there is no immediate probability of any greatly great-ly increased market, mine officials state The view Is taken by the ma Jority of the mine men here that j until conditions become stabilized no full operation of mines can to ; looked for. Since the ending of the war. It is said, the demand for copper cop-per has steadily fallen off. Germany, It Is believed here, will in tho near future be a big buyei of copper. Over 10.000 men are normally employed em-ployed in the mines here belonging to the Anaconda copper company Wilh these running on B 40 pel Cent basis, the number of men required to operate them is, however, greater than that figure because of the necessity nec-essity of upkeeping the mine-, even when they are idle. |