Show DOMESTIC I INQUIRY FOR foil COPPER METAL EXTREMELY LIGHT LICHT While bile predictions have havo been made madea a ag to tho the reduction in copper metal stocks for February no figures gures as to tho sales sale of the metal met have been siY given givon n out If the stock is 8 35 being consumed so o rapidly rap idly as s some naVe lave thero appears apPears ap ap- ap pears to be a r at de deal l of or mystery as to where tho metal rectal is going One ODe authority says says- U With absolutely no demand for largo quantities tho the co copper per market markot has settled into a R dull period notwithstanding ing ins cheap offers of tho the metal Henry It n. Morton Merto il Co last week o offered fIe March delivery at al 1432 cents and April H 14 8 S 38 cents centi Pa Paul l Koenig the tho Euro Euro- ufO representative of the American Americ n Smelting Refining company likewise named 14 8 1438 38 cents for April ic ic but offered March at 1435 cents bo best bids in in the tha market abroad how how- over T. seemed emed to be 1430 rents cents a 3 pound Domestic inquiry was practically nil The Copper Producers Producers' statement which h had been considered f favorable from their viewpoint by tb the producers fell feU nat list so far as aa ers era were werl concerned A Ag n R matter f o fact acL the little inquiry before tho statement state tato ment meat was published disappeared d a as thou though b b by magic except for a fe few sales sale alps made later in the week Calumet Hecla has haR sold a 8 large Iare block of copper coppe for domestic dom delivery at 14 cents comparing with its ib asked price in Europe Eu En rope some weeks weekE ago o of 15 cents It Is s pointed out by tho the seller of o more moro than pounds annually annual ly that two months months' 1 exports to Europe Europ would bo ho sufficient for three months months' consumption abroad in short ever every p pound being bein shipped would ouId not go o int into immediate u use c. c Tho Tb custom house bonne returns returns re turns over tho the week end encl holiday showed that 1 tO pounds had been clearer cleared through h Nc New York and Baltimore Through tho the latter port thoro thore went 1 Founds pounds from th the Ule Baltimore refinery refinery re finery finer o 0 of f the tho This was wa all nIJ consigned to Bremen on the steamship steam ste. ship Maino Maine Th The Tha heavy hen shipments mado mad brought the total for so o fa faUp far farup Up Ip to pounds J or ort at t the tho rat rato of approximately pounds fo for forth forthe th the full intI month II The Tho The bulk of tho the copper reported early this month was wae included in th the January statement of the producers Thus ThuR the current months month's figures fi of th the government will show exports far in cr ex of or th the producers for tor tho the same sam month U to Prance Francs have havo been hev heavy Of t the he I over over holiday hojda exports export pounds wore ware consigned cd t to Havre A heavy exporter and refiner refine expresses cs the opinion that in France Franc considerable hidden stocks of copper cop cop- per might aught ht bo be found where loans Jonns COUK could ouId be ho secured with easo ease against warehouse receipts |