Show POSITION Some of the Causes That Are Making the Big Demand DemandA A Boston paper one of the largest producers of copper as guying aln The prospects for tor peace between Rue eta sia and Japan are so poor at the present time that I look for a of the present large demand for tor cop copper er from abroad and of the present advancing tendency In price I do not think the market can properly be quoted quite yet at cents but tho indic indications are that It reach that figure before tong Ions r I do not take much stock in the ort oft repeated statement that the world is to consume copper r relatively faster than it itcan itcan can produce It The price of copper essen depends upon commercial c and If wo We are to run up tip against a I setback In general business the price or of I copper will immediately decline L I do not therefore believe that we wc are approaching a permanently high price level for tor copper I Business conditions alone wIll govern the tho price Today copper Is in commercial tie de demand mand inand the world over The demand is bet ter In the United States and G than it is In France and hut the present business demand for th the n metal tal coupled with Increased supplies for tor Russia and Japan can mean only one thing and that Is n a still higher price for copper but that It will remain perma permanently at high figures is absurd The Calumet Hecla company is at present out of the market and has sold us as far ahead as it believes advisable There is at present an enormous demand for fot the j jred red metal for tor the electrical transmissIon of power ThIs demand Is st steadily in increasing increasing creasing and at an expanding ratio Elec gae engineers e are making a It possible g Str and feasible to transmit m electrical energy over many miles without material loss In efficiency This requires JJ i large larse wire and lot of it itI I can detect no manipulation S n In thE market The high prices are being paid by those who must have the cOI copper per I |