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Show WITH SATISFACTION i Mining and Scientific Press j Believes Government Has Found Happy Medium. Cionctral satisfaction has bn :pr'H with th price at which copper was V.'A bv the. war Industrie hoard, says the. Minim; Min-im; ami Si'luntlflc rri-ss. It Is not so low as to dls'-ouiugc pro.l notion, even by tit poorer mints, ;ivA it is not so hifrh as to lie.:li consumption for useful purposes. 'I'lio fixing of a prP e rcmoes the premium pre-mium on "nijot" ,-oppnr nnJ brlnns the n..ukct to a uniform lvl. The Htmlstl'-s of mst eollcctafi liy BOveiiunent officials Inve not been nun to public; so guesses cMiiiimie to be nurie. One authority plnctH the euFt for a number of tlie blif-fcr blif-fcr mines between 10 and IS cents; another an-other obl'-ets to the assumption that a 1r!co iif :.l',i cents allows a Renernl profit of 10 cents tier pound. Wages are now-r..l!vlv now-r..l!vlv h'.iilier. for the sliding scale is not to operate down-hill. Kven if the jsov-frnmenl jsov-frnmenl ha. I not ntlpuUted for a maintenance mainte-nance of the uNiviiiiK wane-love). It Is nnllkolv that the rat of nay could have been decreased without widespread labor troubles. Mlldlne scales are unfair ar-larmemcnts. ar-larmemcnts. becanso both parties do not equally phiv the nam,,. Miners In Arizona Ari-zona are now tettlnE JS.15. whereas the sllillnt' scale on a basis of 23'(,-cent cop-,er cop-,er would call lor $4.7.'. net- shift; in Montana Mon-tana the miners are being paid f'.2n, whereas under the scale they would he rece.lviim' onlv fS per sltlft. However, r.one of us will grumble at that. If only they will do their work and Join with tim' managers In a continuously active production of one of the sinews of war. |