Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-05
HALF
Of THE OUTPUT
United Nc lal Selling Company
a Big Concern.
REFINERIES ABSORBED
Raritan Plant Will be Running its
Full Capicity by June Il
Interests Outside.
REFINERIES ABSORBED

The Iron Age of Chicago. in a recent
issue, says the United Metal Selling COM
pany, which is to take over the business
Of Lewisohn Brothers and will handle the
! products of the Amalgamated Copper
company, is to begin actual business on
| March Is. at the Bowling Green building,
| New York The formation Of the COM
pany is an event of the greatest signifi-
| canoe in the metal trade, as will be un-
derstood from some of the details pre-
scented below:
The Observation-Disclosures group of
copper mines includes the Anaconda, Bos-
ton & Montana, Butte g. Boston, Colorado
Smelling Inc Parrot companies, which,
together, have an annual output of about
zoo, 600, 600 pounds of copper. The princi-
pal mine controlled in Arizona, which the
Lewlsohns have controlled, is the Old Do
minion. Besides, they have handled the
output of the Arizona Copper company.
With several smaller interests these rep
resent an annual product of 80, 600, 900
pounds. Two years since the Lew.sohns
made a contract with w. A.. Clark to
market the United Verde product for a
period Of three years. This contract,
therefore, is still in force for this year,
the quantity involved being about 40, OOO,-
600 pounds. 1t is not likely, however, that
it will be renewed. On Lake Superior the
properties controlled are the Tamarack,
Osceola, Arcadian and some smaller
mines, the total involved being about 35,-
100000 pounds. Then there is the Utah
Consolidated, in Utah, and the Tennessee
Copper company of Ducktown, Tenn,
which carry the whole beyond 1926, 900, 600
pounds. To this must be added those
quantities Of copper furnace material
which naty1ra1lv Houy ~ %l,o ,aG,.~:o.
owned and controlled by the United Metal
Selling company, which in an active year
llk this probably will run the amount of
metal which seeks a market through the
new concern to fully $50, O00, 600 pounds,
When it is considered that the total pro-
ductlon OF 1899 was close to GOO, OOO, 900
pounds. the fact will be realized how
great the power this one selling agency
Yields IN the copper markets of this coun-
try and of the world.
The greater part of the rest of the
American product is controlled by a few
groups. Among these there is first of all
Calumet & Hecla, with an annual produc-
ton of close to 100, 900, 900 pounds, the
Quincy with 16. O00, 900 pounds, the Stan
ton group. including the Atlantic, VOL
VERNE, Baltic and Mohawk, with about
$4,000, 900 pounds, all in Lake Superior. In
Arizona We have the Phelps Dodge group,
including the Copper Queen, Detroit,
Globe, etc, with about $4,000, 600 pounds,
in Montana the Heinze interest, with a
capacity of about 25, 900, 600 pounds, and !
in California the Mountain company.
making close to 25,00O, 900 pounds.
TIL most important refining interests
of LeWisohn Brothers have passed into
the hands of the United Metal Selling
ompan CONSPICUOUS among these is
the famous Raritan Copper an
electrolyt.c plant which is now being en-
1arged so that it will be able to make
from 0 1000, 900 to y, ZOO, COO pounds of cop
per per month. Delays in delivery of
structural steel and Of machinery have
made it impossible to complete the new
addition promptly. It is probable. how
ever, that the plant will be running by
June to full capacity. It is now making
about 5000, 900 pounds of electrolytic cop
per per month. The other refining con-
Germs transferred are the New England.
at Providence, r. l., and the Ansonia.
Conn. The latter will probably be dis |
mantled.
Report has it that The refining plant at
Baltimore will also be taken. While not
favorably located for the New England
trade 1T can ship economically to some of !
the foreign markets. 1t will continue to
handle a considerable part of the Ana
n copper In the Butte district the
smelling operations are being more and
more concentrated at Anaconda. The
SAAO t1ld SOlOIdUO SlnSlIlnp )
ores go there now, the new and old smell
ing plants Of he Parrot and the smelling
works of the Colorado being die. The re- !
port has been current that the Anaconda
plant was to considerably extend its re-
lining facilities SO that ultimately the /
whole OF the production would be electro
lytically treated here. We understand. |
however, that the plans now being car
ried out merely contemplated a general
Oyerhauling and remodeling of the works.
Frank Klepetko of the Boston & Mon
tana company is acting as consulting en-
gineer for these improvements. The
Bridgeport refinery, formerly controlled |
by the Parrot interest, has been dis
Besides handling the enormous copper
product alluded to, the United Metal Sell
ing Company also are agents for not !
alone the silver accompanying the con-
per, but also the whole of the silver pro-
duct of the American Smelling & Refn-
ing company. 1t is even believed in the
trade that it is within the possibilities
that the United Metal Selling company
ultimately handle the lead produced
nv tho Cn1n1fn,