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Show PURCHISl COPPER Market Unsettled, but Ammunition Am-munition Factories Running Run-ning With Full Forces Operators of the large copper mines in the nest are unab e to get authoritative lnformaf on as to the condition of the red meta market Eastern dealers claim that the e tuatlon is more or less uncertain uncer-tain and that there is no certainty as to the information received re at ve to the metal. During the last week of August there was quite a demand for t e meta and some of the stocks delivered were a portion of the supp es that had Dean con traded for previously More of these con tract dell eries -will be made during the last week of this month and this is ex pected to stimulate buy ng by manufac turers who have mads no commitments. Refiners continue to make advances of 10 cents a pound to produce's on metal stocks Not aU of tie large producers have asked for advances as some com panles ha 6 a substantial cash surplus and have preferred to wait and see what the final outcome of the market will fce. From sa es that have been made pro ducers have rea ized suff cient money In some instances to meet operating ex penses and this is all that is required for he t me being That the foreign countr es that are engaged in war are buying the metal f eely is evidenced from the fo ow ng statement from a corre spondent in London who wrote last week as fo ows T e copper market is ery unset tied and pr ces of e ectro ytlc are de termined more by the individual fac to s go erning transactions than by any cons deration as to what, under othe cond t ons mlht be termed ma ket facto s If a ho der wants to rea ze he finds t ery hard to find a buyer If a buyer s faddy about what e wants and requires any spe c a b and and so forth he has to pay wel for t but the tone as far as tl e market can be said to exist is dul and rather easy A b g consumer tel s me he pa d 58 6 for some wire bars c i f L verpool ear y arrival whl e a dealer te s me that if he had 57 bid he wou d accept it Th ngs are very queer alto ether and it looks as if a long time would e apse before matters assumed a norma appearance as re srards the reoDeninsr of the metal ex change Efforts are being made to square off open deals and a certa n amount of progress is being made n th s d rection but the bill will have to be footed one day So far there has been only a staving off of the evil day The government meant me is the largest buyer and the ammunition works are go ng fu 1 tilt We are st 1 fu 1 of sp es and not a night passes without shots be ng fired at the guards but so far t e damage done bv the enemy within our camp is trifl ng |