Show f NEWS NEWS FROM ALL WITH THE LATEST ff I I. I MINING THE CAMPS AND STOCKS PRICES FLASHED M MARKET ARKET J 5 QUOTATIONS ON F FROM R O M LEADING i T BEITER DEMAND FOR OR COPPER MEM At 18 HAS j ADVANCED PRICES A t better demand for lor copper nt metal tal was as o started d last ast Tho Tim Improvement In J buying was as noticed both mon among domestic ind for fortIn consumers For Ol several weeks tic Ithe market h lias hus lacked oven even a nit fair de demand do- do mand and nom JOin under tho tIo impression ton don there would bo lie a recession In metal prices price In consequence nc The renewed buying buy buy- ing was wis received with a great deal of Interest among copper merchants and I in reviewing tho the situation tho the Boston News Bureau says s March rh copper copier seemed to be In greatest great groat- Ireat sat PMt demand although thero were alE also aIM some Inquiries for February r This plainly indicated that some somo of ot the tilo tle domestic consumers eon con rn- rn sum suIno sumers failed to lay Ia In their full tul requirements require require- m ments nb for Cor tho quarter In London II H. J R. R R Merton Morton I Co was wu a buyer bUCl of warrants Them still cheap cheal offerings b by various anous American tel tel- In Irig Interests The determination of or tin tho American and Refining company to t sell eil el copper at th thc tho best bid a fortnight ago ao was waR followed b by some lomo of or the tho other smaller Interests Interest who had hail retained somo omo from sale salo on February and March copper flom talo the tha advancing nd scale cale t Co Amalgamated and Phelps Dodge Podge sold old out for the tho quarter some weds ago 10 and have o be been beon n unable to handle any 1 of at the recent business which has his been Loen largely for A As tho they soldon sold soldon on tho the advance their thel a average IaFe price Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the covered rd cO will wi doubtless show higher than competitors who held back a R la larger pr proportion of their copper opper front from rm I early earl salo asic which has since been market marketed ed cd as spot c copper on tho the decline When copper coper began bean I Its rise from I slightly better beter than 1 12 cents a pound last a t October to 14 cents speculators speculator in this country as S well wel as In Europe took on R as I much copper as a the they could con conveniently carry When the recent break brcak came I Ithee these thee second hands forced their holdings I on the marl market in addition additon to tho the output of the first et hand seln selling agencies One I of the country's lar largest elt con consumers umer bought practically all al his first frt three months months' copper from second hands with wit result that he did not pl pay top prices neither did he make a contract with wih a a single producer |