Show iLLiNG OFF OF 0 r FIN FINI IN INt I COPPER EXPORTS IS FAVORED t The genral enral feeling In well posted copper circles is that J European manufacturer I g having vIng pr pretty tty well wel stocked up at 14 I c cents nt for tor electrolytic copper during l h n months of ot January I February ry and rth- rth there thero 1 is II logically to be eXl expected a falling falling- aUIng off ft In the enormous exports that have exe In been witnessed since the first of ofa 10 c a year yer I Many absurd ard and fanciful theories have have I seen advanced in Jn explanation of this large outward rd movement of the met metal Some have alleged that that the tIa was being c to t private on the continent where hee no report I H ii made to authorities others othere other have asserted Mh that t thousands of ot tons are arc being carried In Iha the holds of ocean going vessels being shipped and ad reshipped from one side of ot the Atlantic to the other thus thul escaping vigilance of ot those authorities making foreign visible supply figures trul of the matten Is 18 that the large lar To takings of ot copper b by Europe h have e bi ii n solely ol tor ly for Immediate or prospective consumption It Is quite quie natural that li busy manufacturers I In German Germany for tor Instance In In- stance should fill nJ up their stock if It they the c beHe stanc the metal is Intrinsically cheat at Rt its It present price This Is Just t J what has taken token place fe As AB to the claim that copper Is I being In private te warehouses warehouse It ma may be be Id id that there aro ate no such uch warehouses houses Bat at least none of an any consequence A a search earch has lias been made to dl discover co c r uch alleged storage b by those whose hose business e It Is to know if they T really really- exist Nal Domestic consumption continues to die die- Dor tc The depression In lii Iron and steel natural natural counterpart in a similar depression lon In the manufacture of brass copper wire Ire products nd i One gre of ot the largest brass braas manufacturers manufacturer kin n the country tells the Boston News Newe bureau that he I Is not operating better beter cent of ot and that 60 per per hanGI Is at a die die- That hat bat business 1 Is b being done j small ran margin of profit pronto AI t the rec recent nt dinner given on b by bythe the tho Copier Cop Cop- Producers to President Charles F. F ier r Col maker of the the American Brass Bran Co u-l. u roker M. M Thompson of ot the International Co In a a well wel received speech stated among other things that t the pro- pro with which our great copper reNt re- re gret tl from the extracted being were ero Nt und and sold for or a 1 pittance c to other nations was as l an economic crime He Xe aton lied attention to the fact fac that theore the led enlightened nations of Europe EUrop are ore their live to tD the noce necessity ty of or con conserving natural lve resources e and yet America the e n Aurl greatest copper producer is shipping ship ship- ping ing orl more than ever before In 11 her tile tile- bry ory Int rYe i and ud ud Is selling at a ridiculously low to price Ic 60 60 per cent of her copper not manufacturer but to foreign foreign- Fers ers ere He said fald the future looking future looking say uy ahead wax an alarming one Ity years wa wal ah ry car standpoint and producing from the copper Efrom whIle not directly Interested as n a miner minert Of hUe t f copper he ho urged a a campaign of ot education eUCA I and com corn tion to the end that the the present ton generations might be R alive to the kofy oly of ot wasting such of or our our- great na- na national 01 resources which once onee depleted can ner ne be restored I |