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Show l FORMAL ROMA PROBE BEGINS 1 COPPER Mies I COMEBACK HU. 11' BEGINjlrlLI Utah, Montana and Michi- ;1 gan Industry to Shake I Off Shroud I REVIVAL TO BE SLOW I Companies to Commence f Building Up Working flsB Organization: at Mines M) V Hj cm i- AG'-' 'IBS twelve months, the copper industry! has arisen, shnl n ( ifl ,.n April 1 will y.y ,,c IjM on its way back to normalcy, acoord- J-Jflj f?;B -i the eountr Rv:: M TVar. or rather th H;V delivered the h Hi The armistice ssWJ erat quantities if Sand suddenlj ased Th. i 2 , i ollapsed 1 hrough 7 i depression th BS tl among tho- -I' 1 ' Sk But the r. surre tlon I H 1 ilval or opp r E J Bcale to atari about April i la announ- H f i ,i by th' 1 Si ,,jnv the Utah i opp' c cnp.ii Wl sAnacon Bl u thai tin b mi R ,,f land will H several mines " aire ' I 1 J r .thf'rs hove ftnrt-d prelim n to have everything, reud for the miners min-ers within & few weeTss .... 1 C f.t riv FAR vx With all mines operating ut capacity .sM and this la nol expected foj n n It I months- 1 men an I copper mines. Montana and Michigan I L with 20,000 each provide the g.-'-ai I majority of worl; with Vrizona and u rtah making up the rest At tl R B" nu mines wcr operating w fc4 employed pM untn in 1920 11 n BB& -' in 1921 the Hj gffHJ four chief copper mining areas militate. mili-tate. . , Summarized the general situation Is: I MICHIGAN Resumption of worl; at rhe Calumet and Hcc'.a Company and .uhsldary mines the amount of work In the mills and smeltery hlnrjes upon the disposal dis-posal bv the companies of their surplus sur-plus metal. April 1 is expected to see many mines operating, although -.ith nhort forces. Fifty or Slxl pel ent Is the estimated production at "j the beginning. Six month will be n - I quired to build up an organisation re placing that scattered following the .shuidow n. MONT V Four properties of the Anaconda Copper Mining company resumed operations op-erations January 16 of this year after af-ter being closed eight and one-hilf months. There mines, together with a the reduction works at Anaconda and I J Great Palls, employ 7T.0U men. Mines' third capacity. a cording to figures furnished by John Gillie majnagt r ' of n ines for the Anaconda company. Ore lias resumed its flow to the opper Queen smelters of the l i" pb-Dodge pb-Dodge corporations. The Calumet an-i Arizona company mines will -di rti reaume operations on a .mi " scale, according to irol J C Qreen-.i.iv Qreen-.i.iv general manager. From May, 1921, to the present all Arizona -melting plants have been idle. The L tah Copper company, closed in the general shutdown, win re-open at a "comparatively- early dale" an official of the company declared During Dur-ing the inactive period only 200 men have been employed at the mines which at peak production in 101S pro-j vided work for C 000. The depression from which tho Industry In-dustry is today showing tdgns of rc- jfgBBSS covering was the greatest it ever cx- - M9J perlenced. jH The war emergent led to over-pro- H ductlon and subsequently to disastroup j, j-s- i-nder-consumptlon which paralyzed I Xmm every copper mine In the count;;.- A I jBm huge supply of metal was met with ! dwindling demand a combination FiB which sent the market toboggannJnK Pjl downward, closed tho mines, threw ,H thousands out of work stagnated busf- iKH neSS In fnflre communitl-s and ser 'H lously embarrassed many hundreds of i i -tockholdor8 whose Incomes were af- f ! fected when divldendi o ted M SOMF MlM 18 I S lK Ifl'i":. Some mines escaped. Ill Ml hi,- ,n EH four mines the Qulncy. Mohawk. H "Wolverine and Copper Range con- H tinned to operate, but operations were, I onlv half of normal. IHH Some mining men are still pesslmis-t BH tic over the early revival of the in - i dustry' P. G Bpllsbury, president of I the Arizona Industrial Tont-r.-.-s and I nn authority on mlnlncr declares that i resumption of copper niJnini: r'i -cale apprnachiiiK normal Is "nni like-1 ' lv in tho face of existing conditions '- a Reducuon of freight ru'. he Hj,irt would mean a great stride In the dl- J I 1 ' (CoBtlsfaed on Page Two.) I COPPER MINING COMEBACK WILL BEGIN APRIL 1 Continued from Page One.) recllon of bringing copper mining back. great portion, however, agree with C. I". Willis, editor of tho Arizona .Mining Journal, who points out that n renewal of production inevitable" because only 176,000,000 pounds or refined copper are available for domestic do-mestic use. No general decision as to wages to bi paid In the mining fields has been announced A redm ed scale was In effect at the time of the shutdown ana according to officials of the Calumet jind Hecln company no action upon revision of this scale ha.- been taken. At Anaconda and Great (falls the scale, according to Mr Ollliej is $4.--t for miners, f.5 for mechanics and $3 73 for common labor for an eight-hour 'lay. There is at present according t Mr. Gillie, a large Influx of labor in Butte much of It. however, wholly Without mining experience This situation Is reversed In the 'Copper Country," ot Michigan from Which many miners have departed While no labor shortage is feared the various companies Will be obliged to rebuild their organisations which will require six monthi, mining me-i |