Show CP COPPER PRICES ARE AR ADVANCED BY SHORT OUTPUT f O 1 MiNES The rhe advance In copper metal prices has come conic in a large measure as a result of ot the tho shortage of ot production from tram some of or orthe I the districts distrIct where labor difficulties have ha arisen In spite of ot this condition it appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears that there has been a letup In buyIng buy- buy Ing of ot r recent date but the selling agencies agencies agen agen- cies des arc are holding off orr claiming that consumers con coil sumers would need more o 0 of the metal within the next seven to ten lIn days s Of Ot tho the conditions In the foreign markets Ii u London cable carries I the he following account ac au count The copper position Is I getting very ery In- In n- n but not more marc then than a fraction atthe of at the speculation which might hu have hue e been expected has been seen People are arc rendered rendered ren ren- dered timid b by the bad trade reports I which are arc coming over from Germany are arc a little apprehensive the American crop situation and in addition I feel eel diffident as to the effects of or the now new tariff in the States upon the world trade Meanwhile 1 copper prices under lus Ius of at bona bone tide fide trade demands continue continuo to soar and there thero has been a regular scramble scramble scram scram- ble for tor material What with one and another there is no knowing what I Is going to happen The Tho Rio Tinto strike may easily prove a serious matter but at 1 present toe tile company is If not unduly op apa about It There has been chronic turbulence on the part of labor labo there for tor a long time The Amalgamated Copper company having swept the boards bare in n land and arid France Franco of at rough copper such a as bars and tho like are now nosY tr trying to pickup pick pIc up m metal In Ital Italy for tor shipment to New NewYork York so o that there Is not the smallest chance at present of any relaxation in inthe Inthe inthe the European statistical position The last las returns were again excellent and indeed everything has conspired to give the I bulls a leg log up The The bear bear spot snot Is still sUII Hamburg where dealers dealers' are obsessed b by the knowledge that there Is a rec recession slon In the German iron and steel trades They seem to forgot forgot for tor- got sot that copper is on a footing tooting b by Itself now and that the position toda today Is tho the re result re- re suIt sult of labor troubles the world orld over which are only Just making themselves felt In full force Tho The consuming trades are well employed employed em em- here and quite a fair fall amount ol ot fresh tresh electrical work has hRS been given out of ot late Tho The reports from Crom Germany a as to this branch of ot trade are not so 80 bad but while white the tho larger works arc aro pretty prett near as busy as ever er some of ot the little fellows are beginning to feel the pinch a R. bit |