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Show ' mm S (NOUN M - . ' Samuel Newhouae returned laat niht n to hia Salt LaVe home, after three : months spent in Europe on buaioeaa, pleasure and recreation. As automobile tour from London- over the English roads and other automobile tours through France, Germany, Austria and Bohemia were all notably pleasant incidents in-cidents of the vacation. Mr. Newhouae used his own machine, with Count Leon LaBorde aa companion, and found all Europe overrunning with other Americans Ameri-cans oent on retting pleasure from auto au-to trips over the fine highways. Discussing "material things, Mr. New-. New-. house aaid: . ,4l understand, from men best , posted on the white metal situa-tion, situa-tion, that silver mining is going to be . further encouraged by additional rises ' in price. ' 1 "Tbe copper "situation is encourig- 1 ing. With ail the vast operations, with new finds and increased smelter facilities, facili-ties, with all the new mines coming into in-to production, we have not in this country, coun-try, produced as much of it so far this year as we did during the same period last year.' In New York . I discussed this question with the president of the ! United States Metals Selling company, who gave me some data with fespect to the matter and which indicated a shortage, short-age, and since then eopper has been going go-ing up, and it is the opinion of the sellers sell-ers iu the United States and England that eopper will yet experience a considerable con-siderable rise. "My own belief is that what is curtailing cur-tailing the supply greatlr in many instances in-stances is the scarcity of labor. Many of the mines are not able to work to their full' capacity because they cannot get enough men. "The crops of this country have beea so large, and farm hands have received such attractive wages, that a large percentage per-centage of tbe labor forces the mine owners used to draw upon has not been available for mining. "In addition to the new developments develop-ments in all our mining fields, requiring more- men, the drawiag of some of our labor to fields as remote as South Africa Afri-ca has contributed to the shortage of labor la-bor at home, .,. "I believe that next month labor will be less scarce, because the erops will all be harvested and work of farmers will be finished for the aeason. and we can then again draw -forces for the mines from this class of the labor ranks. "While. I say that the labor famine has contributed to the cause of the shortage in eopper, I do not mean to say that it is the only cause. There is a greater demand there is a natural shortage in the stock of copper under these circumstances. Such large companies com-panies as the" Westinghouse and other institutions of that kind who use 50,-000.000 50,-000.000 . and . upward annually, have their agents out scouring the eountry, but tbev cannot find the copper they need. Therefore, it is reasonable to say that the price will stay up for some time to where it 'is if it does not go higher temporarily. 7,I found the large financial institutions institu-tions of England, franco and Germany all familiar with Utah mining enterprises. enter-prises. Thev- have abiding faith in their future, and with the proper presentation of mining propositions and mining stocks in those countries, these financial -interests are prepared to become be-come our valuable allies. . "New York is much interested, in Utah and Nevada mines. D. H. Peery has a large following there, and so have several others.'.' . Mrs. Newhouse did not eome west with her husband, but will sail from England the last of October and come to bait Lake direct. - v |