| Show A FEW days aro ago g casting copper touched seventeen cents a pounds pound A year or eighteen months ago no one would have dared to assert that the red metal would ever reach this figure but now no one would venture to make the prediction that copper will not even evan go higher than this still with this quotation there is a wonderful field open to the mining world and owners of valuable copper properties are in in position to swell their bank accounts to goodly proportions while the mine owners whose holdings carry copper associated with oth other er metals have good cause to rejoice and the prospector hash has the chance of a lifetime the demand for developed copper mines being so earnest that properties of this description io n have nearly all been corralled by the investor thus throwing open the doors for a scramble for undeveloped properties and meritorious copper prospects this is the first time for a quarter of a century that casting copper has been quoted at 14 17 cents the nearest approach to this figure being 11 seven or eight years vears acro ago 11 durino during the fren french h copper combine the advance at this time being of but short du duration tation with avith but little work a copper prospect now worth not to exceed and this on account of its possibilities could be opened up so that it would command or on the open market and this being the case no owner of a proposition of this character can complain that he is shut out and that there is no chance for him let him but once show that he has a copper prospect of merit and it will bean be an easy matter for him to secure assistance in its development surely the ilie future outlook for the minin mining industry is most encouraging |
