Bisbee daily review., 1911-01-08
Shelter Production.

duction of any previous year
 Shelter Production. The figures showing smelter pro daction, which have been collected by B. s. Butler, of the Survey, re- present the actual production of each company for eleven morths and include an estimate of its De cember output The November fig ures for a few companies were not vailable and these ccmpanis fur ished estimates for the last two months of the year. According to the statistics and estimates received, the output of blister and Lake cop per was 1,O7s, 100000 pounds. as against 1902 2,o51.s24 pounds in 1909.
 Relied Copper
 Statistics showing the output of refined copper by plants in the Unit ed States are not collected by the Geological Survey at this time. Fig ures published by the Copper Pro ducers' association for the first elev- en months of 1910 indicate that the production of marketable copper by the regular refining plants from all sources, domestic and foreign. will amount to about 44S,OO0. 900 poInds, as against 1,fO5, ,61s,519 pounds in 1909.
 Imports.
 According to the Bureau of Statis- tics, imports of pigs, bars. ingots, plates, and old copper for the first eleven months amounted to 225, ,237,- 942 pounds, and the copper content of ore, matte, and regulus imported amounted to I5,95S,712 pounds. If the imports for December were eq- ual to the average monthly import for the first eleven months the a. mount of copper entering he United States for the year was about 33S, 100000 pounds, as against 321, ,sO1, .114 pounds in 1909.
 Exports.
 Estimates based on figures for the first eleven months, published by the Bureau of Statistics and also by the Copper Producers association, indi- cate that the exports of copper will exceed the exports for 1909, which amounted to f22S46,726 pounds, and that they may be as much as 70O,- 0OO, 900. pounds.
 Stocks.
 Stocks of refined copper held in the United States on January l, 1910, are probably less than on January l, 1909 Foreign tsocks dur January l, 1909 Foreign stocks dur. shown a steady decrease and at the close of the year were considerably less than on January l. 1910.
 Consumption.
 Statistics showing domestic delig- cries for the drst eleven months of the year, as given by the CJrDec Producers association, indicate a con sumption of copper in the United States exceeding that of any prey. ious year and reaching, perhaps, 77O,00O,O0 pounds, as compared with SS,565,243 pounds for 1909
 Prices.
 The price of electrolytic copper re- mained below 13 cents for the grea. CT part of the year, the average monthly New York quotations for eleetrolytic copper being abo1t l2.7 cents per pound.
 industry in the Leading copper-Pre-
 ducing States.
 Arizona.
 For 1910 Arizona again takes the lead among the copper-producine states with an output slightly above the production of 1909, whIcL was 91,11O,2 ,29S pounds. The Bisbee dis trict was tine largest producsr. with an output of approximately 145,0OO,- GOO pounds. as compared wi b about SO.O0O.000 pounds for 1909.
 Developments during the yea- in the old mines of the district were encouraging, especially in the desp- CT workings Steps were taken late in the year to consolidate the Caiu- met and Arizona and Superior ard Pittsburg companies.
 The output Of the Morencf-Metcalf district for 1910 will shov little change from the production of 72, 100000 pounds in 1909 The shan non railroad, connecting this com pany's m'nes a Metcalf with it's lam and smelter at Clifton, was com pleted and put in operation ea-ly in the year.
 The Globe district made an output of about 27.OOO,00O pounds as com pared with about ss.OO0,O00 pounds for 1909.
 Tn the Miami section of this dis trict there was g. eat ac ivify throucl out the year in development ard con struction. The Miami CopDe- com panv practically compi stcd it's mill