Show THE COPPER AGE the world seems to be going wild about copper and from all indications this would seem t to 0 be a copper age it is not so very long ago that copper was a drug on the market A few years ago only the higher grades of copper bearing ores were sought for and the mine productive of large quantities of this metal I 1 going but three to seven per cent was looked upon as being practically valueless as being utterly worthless and the miner the prospector in scouring the hills and the canyons for deposits of the precious and baser metals considered themselves as being out of luck if perchance they stumbled upon a ledge carrying values in the red metal now however all this is changed and for two good reasons the first of these is that the almost unlimited use of copper in electrical operations in various industries and in innumerable other directions has cleaned up all of the available and visible prices of this commodity the other reason 4 is found ir in the fact that improvements in mining methods and in reduction practices have enabled owners of copper mines to mine and work ores at a profit which could not be handled in any shape a few years ago people take a mild interest nowadays now a days in reported discoveries of silver mines if a big gold find is reported they show some disposition to investigate but if a rumor reaches them of a copper discovery they prick arick up their ears and strike out for the new discovery with the greatest haste imaginable men of means keep experts in the field all of the time looking for copper no place is too inaccessible for them and remote regions difficult to explore offer no barrier which they cannot overcome for they are after copper and copper they will have in mining operations there are those who a few years ago would have been discouraged had copper made its appearance as a product byproduct by in their ores Now however the report that copper is coming in fills them with delight for the secret has been found of transmitting copper into gold and this is what all men want |