Show HAL EH PRICES VAY nAYE BEEN REDUCED AGAIN IN T I M E BIG MARKETS MARI All AU of ot the tho met metals ls were reduced In price b both th fh In this country and Europe today opper w was cut to cents per pound rat it at which price there was s small email offerings Silver ilver went under the 61 cents mark to ounce The he American Smelt Smelt- 01 cents cente an Iri ii company cut the lead price from 40 to 1150 These are tho the lowest quo QUo- on all these metals for or some time Ume tend end the reports how ow that there is a light dema demand d and there has been nothing In 18 existing conditions for tor some soma time to cause consumers to come Into the tho market for tor much of the stock For R For 1 th the tho moment the market appeals to tobe tobe tobe be considerably unsettled by th the new tariff tarIff tar- tar iff If Iff law which has Just be enacted I this does not affect some nome of o the metals directly Indirectly It will doubtless the de demand denand and and supply have b e its affect on of all commodities Business generally has eased off until th the tha country sets pots a R aline aline line on the new now goods that are to be Imported Imported Imported Im Im- Im- Im ported Into this country in direct com com- with the American manufacturers' manufacturers wares wares i While the copper producers' producers report re released released re- re leased Ius yesterday was received great a. a grent tnt deal of ot uncertainty appears to be bei i folt J b by the producers Consumers claim there is some hidden stocks In this country and Europe despite the often orten re- re statement that tho pre present system system tem tern of computing the visible stocks of or f metals Is accurate The disappointing feature In the tho September report appears I to be In n th the fact that consumers did Jd not take as much stock In September as they did In August The foreign and domestic deliveries were smaller by about pounds the tho home demand falling off I over oYer pounds The production I from the mines was only pounds I less than In tile tho previous month and It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is quite Quito apparent that consumers have I not been buying as liberally as the re reports reports reports re- re ports credited them with |