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Show PRICE OF SPELTER SHOULDHDLD FIRM Henry Krumb Found Joplin Producers Optimistic Over the Zinc Market. Utah mining circles are watching the spelter market uloncr than any other those days, knowing that thero aro two score companies and several thousand shareholders share-holders financially interested in this metal, many companies having been restored re-stored after many ndverso seasons to a self-sustaining bar. 1 8 by the splendid advance ad-vance of recent months In tho market price of this motnl. One of the greatest zinc-producing set font In tho world Is Joplin. and If there is anyone capable of forming a pretty good ldoa of tho probable prob-able market action of spelter it Is the Joplin producer. KnKlneer Henry Krumb of Salt Take has returned from an extended trip throughout through-out tho east and middle west, returning by way of Joplin. whero his associates and himself have extensive zluc-produc-lug properties. Mr Krumb stated to The Tribune Friday afternoon that the opinion opin-ion In Joplin was to tho effeot that spelter spel-ter prices are not golnp lo fall materially for an Indefinite poriod. Stocks of the metal aro low. while consumption is being be-ing maintained at a. very gratifying rate, and that production of npo'.ler Is not what It should be to meet theso conditions, Is evident from the sincere manner In which Utah and other western mining states have been gone over as with a fine toothed comb for new spelter tonnages by the smeltlnpr Interests of the middle west.. While In New York and Boston Mr. Krumb had abundant opportunity to get political opinions from financial and investment in-vestment circles, anil he found that tho election of Woodrow Wilson was expected generally, flnanclnl Interests as a rule believing that the business of tho country hiw nothing to fear from his administration. administra-tion. There Is a question, however, regarding re-garding congress, and many naturally aro Interested in how Wilson will get along with this body. |