Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-03 | Page 2 | [Illegible] Financiers to Purchase Our Metals

H "IJNESE FINANCIERS TO PURCHASE OUR METALS Special to The Tribune. NEW YOKK, Jan. 2. Reprcsenta-WM Reprcsenta-WM tives in this city of-the Howqua fam- 1 ily of bankers, Shanghai, arft about to enter the market for 2-5,000,000 ounces of domestic silver and a large tonnage of electrolytic copper. Both metals aro 1 io como iu small bars and will be used WM in bartering. This Howqua family hau 1 dealt directly in the American market WM for all kinds of products merchantable 1 in China for more than a century, Tho 1 Howqua 's and a number of other native Chinese bankers aro going to finance 1 tho construction of a number of tho J projected Chinese railways, telephone WM and telegraph lines that aro to bo built 1 under tho direction of tho Imperial Beurd of .posts and communications.