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Show ;:v" copper. ;; ' , L The consumption of copper , in the . world is becoming bo heavy that there is now imminent danger of the balance being lost, and the demtmd exceeding the supply. Copper prospects in the West, or auvwhere else, are attaining a value that was never thought of, and, the indications are that the demand for copper by manufacturers manufac-turers will bring about a strong demand for copper properties on the part of; investors. ; The deveh. opraent.of copper prospects has not been pushed in Utah in any thing like the same proportion that ' the metal has given evidence of its .'- e- existence. , Owners of such nroai pects ' should : awake to the fact $ that a developed copper properr : . . ?' will find an ; easy; market without being hawked wound the country' and should take stsps to trans-' ' - S ; form ihrrproapects into' niinea." " " ' '" 1 Of the copper markets one ot the U trade journals has the following to- & say:.. '' r' -...,.. " ; r ! "While '-"'copper, production has $ been pashed to its highest point1" V I in history, yet the world's increus 1 d:usa of the. "metal: exceeds pro-' J "i duction .and the stock on hand steadily diminishes. The sales of f copper in November were not far from: 35,000,000 pounds. The Cal-umet Cal-umet and Hecla sold about 15,000, ' 000 pounds to -manufacturers! There is a scarcity of casting cop-5 per. . M uch nf the ' raw material heretofore nvniln.h1 is now converted into electrolytic ' for the sake of saving the silver v contents, and this has ruateriAlly decreased the output . of casting 7 copper. It is reported that some i purchases of foreign castiug copper cop-per have been' made to fill the de- liciency in the- home supply. The increase in the foreign consump- ' tion of copper has been rapid." We repeat what we have fre- quentiy said before that tho metal 1 and good producing, copper properties prop-erties are good thiugs to tie to. 1 Intcr-Mt. Mining JReviete. |