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Show LARGE DECREASE 11 COPPER PR00UGT10N ' At Present Unsold Stock in This Country Is About 200,000,- 000 Pounds. t . -- - - Special to The Tribune BOSTON, Sept. ' 14. At present the stock of unsold copper iu this country does not e.ccod 200.000,000 pounds, and it is quite possible that the to: ll is materially loss than this. The accumulation of tho metal has been greatly exaggerated. The above figure is practically two months' production pro-duction or continental America, or uo-sixth uo-sixth of the annual output. In 1SS0, when the famous Sccrotan syndicate collapsed, the accumulation was about ' '100,000,000 pounds. Large consuming' I interesta say that it is nol now n puos-j puos-j tiou of prices, but purely of :ho ability to finance new construction. Copper mines of tho United States. I Canada and Mexico continue to report decreasing production. For eight months the apparent decrease for Shis continent aggregates 33,000,000 pouuds. j At the prosent rate a 5 per cent decrease de-crease is probable for the full ye.ir. or 00,000,000 pounds. Ordinarily produo- lion would show 5 per cent increase, so I that the real total is 120,000.000 pounds. August production is figured at 03.2DS.-107 03.2DS.-107 pounds, a decrease of D,2t)i,027 pounds from the corresponding inonrh of last year. Tho lake and Utah will probably be the onlv two districts to show any increase this year. |