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Show IJEWELEHS SEE SILVER Flli1 1 ! Almost lirpossible for Man-1 ufacturers to Get Metal at Any Price. ' . i i :.-:'J C. li.:-- !' :.'.- ll. : e ;.-.:i 1..llZ N' wiirn !-;t i.ks third amoi.i,' : i:. i:A'.- .-i o! I'tdlvl Sialn in tho , ,.:--: 1 ; 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 i i'e M..-a. i y and main-j main-j t..Cned r-. in ti.o ;rii'e 01' ,.l''r, accoi'd-; accoi'd-; in- to the X..-u-:irl; (N. .Li Lcd.r. The rnajorir.y ;i-.rt-ed tli.it li.f1 i'res.-nt condi-I condi-I t,o.;.i point to ;i "Vii'- er fanihn-" that may j iro-. .j of i-x'Li'. ino eriiliarra.ssineut o the I troi.-. ! Juely tit? ir:ec r ihor Jms heetl ! .-'o-ady aro.iini tin- rib; host quotations ever. ' re.v.rd.-d in 1 i o; history of this country. ; Alth,,u-': s:oc' quotations of $1.20 an 1 j ou:i-e have h.-eti Lm!i.-dK-d almost daily, inarmfai run rs il. .'!aro it is racticady J (impossihio to obtain the raw material at I j any prh.e. ' 1 There are a fe.v v;ho four to buy at this price, re.il:.:!!-; that a saimp in tne mar-kr-t jrii-H euv.-ri-m" several mouths would lea'e t belli wit n 'oods manU t'ac t ured at a. cost si hiu'h tiiat disoosal ol' them to the purchasing public would ho difficult. Kofi Tiers and oeha n.c coin miss ion era fdain t liar, the sliortae of silver bullion bul-lion in this cou ntry 1 1 1a Ues the "stocking "stock-ing up" process an impossibility. Silversmiths, Silver-smiths, therefore, nrf! forced tu carry on a "day -to-day business" with such small quantities of silver as mav ho procurable. procura-ble. Authorit ies on the suhject of silver out-put out-put and prices ar-- pessimlslic about the fu I uro. They doebire that the world is almost wholly impendent upon this country coun-try fur its supply of silver. Seventy per Cent of 1 be silver used oy llio world's consumers eonn-y from t.liis country. Lur-n-j; tiie war tho production of silver in the United States fell off by in ore. than 1'iu.iMiii ounces. Because of strikes and other labor troubles it is predicted that the output for the present year will make a new low mark for the decade. |