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...Anaconda Copper Mining Co., enjoying demands for metal which exceeded production during the year: net profits of $15,882,000, compared with...
...since the Century's turn and actually has its principal mines in New Jersey. Output of the New Jersey mines at present is probably close to 100,000 tons annually. Zinc is also produced by copper miners, partly for the use of brass-making affiliates. In boom times Anaconda Copper's zinc production has been higher than 150,000 tons. Another big zinc miner is U. S. Steel, which has mines producing around 50,000 tons annually...
...first big battle by Hearst for his publishing empire was fought in Manhattan. He grappled for an Eastern footing with Joseph Pulitzer and his old model, Pulitzer's sensational World. Gentle Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, whose fortune was always at her beloved son's disposal, sold her Anaconda copper shares for $7,500,000 to finance this New York struggle. But it was in San Francisco that Hearst first proved his genius for mass publishing and of that genius last week's anniversary Examiner rehearsed dazzling examples...
Meantime copper shares on the New York Stock Exchange were staging as merry a boomlet as any speculator could ask. Anaconda jumped $9 per share during the week, closing at $64. Kennecott, also at $64, was up more than $3.50 per share. Phelps Dodge at around $58 was up nearly $3, American Smelting & Refining at $98 was up nearly $10, Federal Mining & Smelting...
...among whose chief producers are the Congo, Rhodesia and Chile. Purchases by Europe are currently holding foreign demand nearly to the rate of 1935, when the Continent consumed 1,215,000 tons, an all-time record. Chief U. S. copper companies to cash in on the foreign market are Anaconda and Kennecott, which operate big mines abroad...