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EL E4SO HERALD 28 WeekEnd Edition June 2829 1919 PRDDCD MIMRC UUI I LllinillLIIU H mmm B I m ff UUmmmil 1IL UISUS SMUII1 Closing Down the Tyrone Mines Due to Market Conditions Tyrone N II Juno 28 The stop pins of all production of copper at the Burro mountain branch of the Phelps Dodge corporation at Tyrone and the earning of attention to development work and repairs Indicates plainly the policy of the company Tyrone cannot produce copper at the present market prices with the pres ent cost of labor and supplies There is moreover no Incentive to produce copper now when the copper cannot be sold and overburden the market with the unsold product Men Given Employment The shutting down of the Tyrone plant has little effect on the employ ment in that camp however as prac tically all of the force of miners who have been producing ore for the mill have been placed on development work which will be pusbefl to the canost and tha company proposes to maintain its policy of placing in em ployment all returned soldiers who left there for the world war At the present time testing Is being done in the