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Show FRANCE IS NOW IN MARKET FOR COPPER Utensils, Such as Liquor Stills and "Alambics," Are Being Purchased by the Government. PAEIS, Aug. 30. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) France is now in the market as a purchaser of copper at home, in the shape of utensils, just as other countries have been for a long time. For the present the povcrnmeni is seeking principally old copper "alam-bies" "alam-bies" or liquor stills of an almost obsolete obso-lete pattern that are found in some regions, re-gions, although it purchases anv copper object offered for sale. Since copper stills cannot readih- be shifted from point to point by iheir owners, the government has oreranized a series of collection parties, each under un-der command of an otticer, which are touring several of the departments and picking up such copper as is offered for sale. The government, offers four francs (SO cents) per kilogram. The half dozen departments where the collection tours are taking place have been notified of the ei3ct day and hour when the collectors may be expected ex-pected to arrive. In all. 177 "towns in six departments are being visited during dur-ing the latter part of August , and the early weeks of September. " Meanwhile the government maintains in Paris a sort, of old copper headquarters headquar-ters at 2 Avenue de Saxe. -here utensils uten-sils and obiects of all kin. maie of red eor-per may be turned in at 4. francs -the kilo, |