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Show I i HOWTHE ENGLISH K REGARDCOPPER H I Foreign Press Suggests That H the American Producer H Close Mines Sunday. H i WOULD HAVE GOOD ' EFFECT ON SURPLUS H Criticises Our Mine Owners for H j Making So Much Metal i These Times. While the world as a general rule has accepted ihc conclusion that there Is Hj some dcllnltcly determined purpoac on the part of the largest copper producers W curtail their output, there is an im-Hl im-Hl menso amount of speculation regarding just what the actual stains if ihc pro-Hl pro-Hl duccrs Is at this mterudtuig time. Those who are In a position to i:now have si-.n-ply said that there Is no asreement en-tercd en-tercd into, but there will he a reduction In output all along the line. The reprc-scntatlvcs reprc-scntatlvcs of the largest producers, therefore, have simply reached a eonclu-mM eonclu-mM slon. The weekly review of J. S. Bache & Co. of New York handles the matter mwm in the following manner: 1 Interest In the copper situation does not 1 abate and the persistent rumors of some mWl sort of an arrangement for restricting: production by the larger control, eon-mW eon-mW Unite. The Sherman anti-trust act. of course, is responsible for the long delay In arriving at some proposition, as under natural conditions a merger would nave 1 been completed last year. There is little Hl question that the leaders wero lully mWl agreed as to wisdom of curtailment long j ago. The thing has been to effect this kym witliout coming in reach of the tentacles of the Sherman octopus. In the City Chatter column of the L,on-don L,on-don Sunday Times, some Interesting ou-sol ou-sol vations aro set down. The writer as-1 as-1 sorts that the time cannot be far off 1 wlicn It will he economically sounder to 1 shut many American mines, rather than 1 work them out at a profit which is so 1 small as to be unrecognizable. Tic says that copper is too valuable to be sucrl-fired sucrl-fired for a pittance and is certain some day to be a source of splendid revenue. With prices of the metal practically hack j ,; to the panic level of 1907, "somebody will kym do the right thing for ills own '.cnelu and then a quick change Is certain." Then follows a suggsstian whli-h Is of great Interest. He says: "Meanwhile, in one direction, co-operation is possible. Most of the copper mines work 365 days a year. The cessation of Sunday opcra-lions opcra-lions at all mines would go a long way in effecting a cure of the situation. And, besides, from moral, humanitarian and economic considerations, the discontinuous discontinu-ous ance of a system In industrial life re-quiring re-quiring a seven-day week of toll would be a move forward in the right direction. A change to a working week of six days ff at all mining camps would go far in bringing about a healthy readjustment of ff l the whole copper situation in a year's ff time On the basis of affecting, say, but 1 50 pc,r cent of ihc United States out-B out-B put, the cutting out of operations one day in seven each week, in itself, would ff make a difference in production calculat-ed calculat-ed at the rale for marketable copper 1 produced in 1909 of 100,000,000 pounds less 1 per year to pile up." |