Arizona republican., 1917-12-04

Emphasis was laid upon upon the fact that the small operators and leasers will be the great sufferers in any downward revision of the copper metal price, at the annual meeting of the Arizona Chapter of the American Mining Congress which met in this city yesterday. It was shown quite conclusively that if a revision down ward from the present 23a cents to 20 cents, as has been intimated in Wash ington, really takes place, possibly next month, small producers and some of the larger ones will find it impos- sible to operate, with consequent loss of production. This loss is conserva- lively estimated at one hundred mil lion pounds from the total possible output in Arizona for 1918.
 Important resolutions and messages were adopted by the Chapter and very complete report from the sec retary was received with interest, showing the remarkable output of cop per in this state, in spite of strikes, so far in 1917.
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 The meetings of the congress yester- day morning and afternoon, with ad- jOurnment taken last evening until g this morning, also heard discussion of the inequalities and discriminations of the Income Tax law as affecting min ing, and took up the matter of silver price fixation and embargoes. The ex- pressions of the number of prominent mining men who took part in these dis cussions trended in the single direction of belief that fair rulings and inter- pretations would come about on the part of the government upon the pre- sentation of facts and figures extending enlightenment as to the real truth as to some of the burdens attending in matters of high labor and materials costs, together with other factors which have operated since 1914 to make a copper metal price of 231a cents considerably less in profit carry ing than a 15 cent metal price in that year.
 To provide the facts which will give the light that is needed to protect the mining industry, and more particularly the smaller producers of ore in the ranks of the industry, the meeting yesterday took steps to secure actual figures as to the cost of production of ore by all producers in the state, both | large and small. No shippers output is too little each month to engage at tention and be of importance in this ] connection and all producers were urged by the session of mining men to | lend effort to the work of getting an | accurate line on production and costs A committee to gather the data was i appointed from the membership of the 1 Arizona Chapter. The members in 1 charge of the different districts are | Norman Carmichael Clifton Morenci; | c. M. Colvocoresses, Humboldt; J 1 Kruttschnitt, Jr., Tucson; W. c
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