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Show IWHV NOT COMPLETE a copper mom? I 1 Movement Along Unes ol Steel Combine for t Jio Copper Producers. WOULD PROTECT THIS INDUSTRY AS NEEDED Big Fellows Would Reap Their Millions, but Little Fellon M ould Profit, Too. In large tr.t!- parlance s "community of Interest" is :i combination to creats demand for supply. In the newspapers :i community Is a trust, mid forthwith luhs a iv i n!; - .! t ;!,;i.-!i l- tnM. Iri;.- enterprises of manufacture ar creatures of evolutlou. Tho modern de pari mem store 15 an nlarged country store which supplies tho n ighbors' n -cessltles. The I'nltod States steel corporation cor-poration and tiio standard OH company arc the products of combination of in-dividsal in-dividsal ! 1 s: -. . 1 : 1 1 .-.' J i" !;us--r nn-ar-ll re lb supply Janj r demand. Now It Is proposed to organise a copper cop-per "community of Interest" "to Increase i . disposal of manufactured copper and brass goods. If : uc essful it will follow the lines (' United Steel In creating export ex-port markets and holding prices firm and steady. Only large capital can accomplish ac-complish great restdts and encompass the j markets of the world. A New York 1 bsitkcr, In close touch with the proposed I omblnatlon. s 1 I "The low estate of our exports of finished fin-ished copper an . brass Is highly discreditable, discred-itable, in en years v.-- li:iv- increased our exports of machinery t:o per cent, j : ; t r in the ports of finished copper and brass v. stand :i .1 lowei plane than we did fifty yearH ago reckoning our exports ex-ports per unit i;' p..pii1.iii"i!. lor many years our ropr r and brass mills have been content with th- home markets. In good times thes plants a if usual!) from, it month to thre months longer In making mak-ing shipments than Is the rule with Gar- md i-jnti.- pper and brass mills. We produce 71 per rent of the world's copper, and export 10 per cent of our copper as raw materials for manufacture, manufac-ture, excepl the small tonnages that go t.. Csnads m the form of rods to bs drawn Into wire. We oneht to be abb . under an enlightened policy, to soil to Hi- eastern hemisphere .it least one-fourth one-fourth cif the copper from mines con-trolbd con-trolbd iy I'nltod St.Uf.j sliari-ln.ildcis in the form of finished maaufacturs of copper cop-per and brass. 'Throughout the boom moat of the exporters ex-porters who applied to our copper and 'rasa jroods makers for goods were told that the borne markets were more than could Ik- taken care of with any degree ) rotnptness In shipments. One of the l.iisy--t . ti.il ie ."!: Il. -i -.ih -t . -per producing company In the nation had if bilni? persoMnl lnflin u. ,. t,- bear wlUi makers of brass In thi last boom year in order to g''t the materials for making a million brass lamps for China undi r .1 contract worked up by the Shanghai agents for an American petroleum industry. indus-try. Many other Instances of the kind could be adduced. 11 the project is sue tsaful It will Bjean expanding marl;, t for Amerlejin manufacturers of copper and brass under such wise methods fr building up foreign and home markets as are exemplified by our most progressive progress-ive manufacturing corporations which have taken the whole world for the province prov-ince of their selling departments." The small producer of copper need have no fears from such a combination. The domestic market must improve as general business revives, and whatever' may be added to the export trade will I tJmuiaU production. One thing may be takt-'ii for granted prices can not reach a much lower level than at present main-tains, main-tains, and even slight advance will have stimulating effect. Copper cones are j so diversified and s.i large that mining can not be 'feornered," and In normal t periods demand will increase. The big m Hows will make barrels of money, ox U course, but while so doing the prudent j little brothers win accumulate comfort- 9 a: lb- bank a units.- I'aclile Miner. |