Show 1924 COPPER CONSUMPTION 10 PER PE CENT CE GREATER THAN 1918 WAR WARTIME TIE PEAK PE World copper consumption for the fIrst six all months of this year ear hu has been at a rate 10 per cent greater than dur dur- log 1938 war peak an and practically 50 per cent larger than the prewar peak of pounds in says the Christian Science cence Monitor The eThe price of oft copper however during these e six months has averaged only 13 cents a pound delivered The constant crowding of production has kept the price at this low level compared with an average price of about 1460 cents delivered in 1923 1023 when world tion was approximately pounds of new copper and 15 cents In 1913 when world consumption was two thirds as large Shipments foreign and domestic during the first six months of 1924 averaged av- av pOunds of new copper a month Production of the world not coming to this country for treatment refining Is at at a rate of about pounds a month This copper is being sold as fast as produced as has aiso been true of American production pro pro- Moreover shipments are going Into consumption practically as fast as re ro for world of copper decreased steadily during the first months of and This j cates a world Consumption during last six months of the new copper a month or at the approximately rai o year This consumption of year cOmpres with world dl pounds In 1813 w of pounds In 1815 04 war peak In 1913 of H p Copper consumption of Europ k hi been Increasing steadily ments during the last six mOnth hi averaged approximately s pounds a with foreIgn around pounds This consumption Is at a rate of 7 per above war peak of month In 1010 While It is believed that shIpments during the second halt average at so extraordinarily high rate as during the six sixie ie quite probable that foreign will show a quite appreciable especially If the Young Dawes-Young Bin k put Into early operation i |