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Show VISIBLE COPPER SUPPLY ABROAD BEING DECREASED Vlsfbl s.iprir of nepper metal In Bng-land, Bng-land, rnute and afloat In forslgn ooun-trlss ooun-trlss at th ess of business last Saturday Satur-day is glean as IT.4TI tone, a deereaae of 7M tons within the past fortnight. The stocks In Rotterdam ahowa an Increase of 1410 tons, and Hamburg stocks ar lncreaaed ln-creaaed IM ton. In Liverpool and Swansea Swan-sea the stocks have decreased 111 tone and Lstndon ahowa an Increase of 111 tone. In Havre the atocaa ahow an increase in-crease of Eoo tone. The buying of copper metal In ths forslgn for-slgn countriss haa Increased considerably consider-ably of late aa a reeult of the lowering of prices of the metal and the Improve-menl Improve-menl In the situation abroad. It la the general opinion that the Ha I ken war will soon bs snded snd thst Turkey will probably prob-ably lose all or most of Us holdings In Europe. This will be accsptabls to most, if not all, of the Kuropean countiis while ths pries of copper metal declined 11 shillings In London during ths day. thers sra excellent euthorttlss who are oonfldent that the decline In the product will not go much further ana that a revival re-vival In dsmand for ths mstsl Is much rr than xaneral commsnt Indlcatsa Boms of the large. t copper producing companies hav been computing their earnings on u cent copper, soma have figured on a general average for the metal as low as IL'f oents In computing new bales ba-les of dividend psymenta This la aald to be more particularly true of the porphyries por-phyries which have been able to show the lowest costs on production. For this reason rea-son It Is claimed that while the big companies com-panies will bs slow In msklng advances In ths dlvldsnd rate,, eucli aa were von-templated von-templated during the first quartsr of 1111, It Is evident that they will not have to reduce the rates now In existence. fhlno and Ray are acheduled to make their Initial dividend paymenta by April I. One who i. closely identified with theee roncerna gives It aa hia opinion that theas companies will begin profit disbursements dis-bursements in a moderate war That Utah Ooppsr win probably not consider the payment of larger dividends while the metal market la In auch an unsettled condition, con-dition, but that by the middle of the year It may decide to ralae Ita dlvldenda to 14 annually. PARK CITY ORB SHIPMENTS. Shi omenta of ore from the Park City mlnea during th past wsek were aa fol-lowa: fol-lowa: Pounds. Silver King Cbafttlon 1,117.240 Paly-Judge III.SM) Daly West ...j,. 401. (tod Ontario s. U. O. Il.ooo. Total M71.14 SSJ YORK CURB CLOUS. Jassss A. Pollock sV Co., bankere and brokers. !!!-UI South Main street, furnish fur-nish ths following, received over their private pri-vate wire this afternoon : I Bid. Asked Bly Conaolldated 11 11 Plret Nstlona! Copper tl 1 Qlnmx Consolidated if 11 Yukon Oold I li Kaw Keyetone I lj Nl planing U Ohio Copper I Ray Central La Rose I 14 South i'tah I I British Col. Coppsr...... li 4 Ray State Oas , Braden il sj Mason Valla T I 8kux Conaolldatad 4 Colorado e...... 14 II Iron Bloeeom )ji III Carina I 16 Nevsds Hills, 1 l-ll1 H NEW YORK CURB RAKOE. Jama A. Potioc eV Oa., hank sra and brokers. Itt-tM Sooth Mala street, furnish fur-nish the following, received over their private wire ttile aftarnooa: Sales High. I Low. I Cloea First N Cop I I I J Olroux Con 1,100 if Ml 13-11 Yukon Oold 1 7. I Ohio Cop ... 1.000' Nsw Kay I l South Utah Mason Val . 100 71 Tl 7 Braden Cop ud if li Bly Con 7ft II i li I La Rose ...I 100, 1 , I Nee Hills ... 4,000 1 l-lll II i. Kerr Ike .. 100 II' ll anl Belmont .... 110 7: 7 7 Tonopah ....I I Aleeka I IPO. 141! 141 I4 LOUDON QUOTATIONS. 1KXTiON. Fab. 17. -Closing Consols for money. 741, consols for ar. count. 74 7-14; Amalgamated Copper, 701; Atrhlaon. 14, Baltimore A Ohio 10X ' Canadian Pacific, 23. Chesapeake A Ohio. 71, Chlrsco 1ret Weetern. 11; chlcsgn, Milwaukee A St. Paul. 1111; Denver A Rio Orande, M; Brie, 10; Brie let preferred. pre-ferred. 474, Orand Trunk. Ill: Illinois Csntral. 1171; Louisville. Ill; M. K. A T, Ml; Nsw York Csntral, 101; Norfolk A Westsrn. 110; Ontario A Weetern. II; Pennsylvania. oi. Reading. 111; Southern South-ern Railway, Ml: Southern Pacific. 101; t!nlon Pacific, ltl: t'nlted States Stesl lis; Wabash. 4; Da Beers. ;0; Rand Mines, II Bar allver--Steady, a lld per ounce. Money 4 per cent. Dlecount rate. Short hllla, 4 11 14-fl per cent; three months' bills, 1 11-llff 4 per cent. NEW YORK PRODUOX NBW YORK. Feb 17 - Butter atsadler. receipts IZI7 tubs. CTsamer- extras. lc, process sxtras, 2 gt -e i-. ttnltstlot. crsam-sry crsam-sry firsts. S41j:l. . factory hsld 2;ff:ic. do c.irrsni msks flrat. :in d. packing pack-ing stock heir). WOilV. packing .lock current make No.2, -Of) 70s,-; No 3, 17 SMe. Cheese steed). recelpta 570 boxes: atate whole milk colored aneclsls. 17I4V1IC, do whits speclala. l.. akluia. "mil' Eggs stsady; recelpta 10.701 casts. (Yeah gathered extras, 2I12r; do first, IggSHi , refrigerator firsts, 17c; nearby hennery whltea, good to large else, new-laid. new-laid. :S;:4c: do selected wliltre defective In else or ruallty, 11414c, rVo hennery browns, l?c, weatern gathered whites, 21 fll!4c. Poultry, dreeaed qttlet, hut firm: fresh killed chickens. 144) IV- fowls. 1111,17.-; turkeya, lit) 74c NEW YORK MONEY VEW YORK. rel. 17 Money on call firm, !A4 per cent, ruling rate, 4; closing bid. 1: offered at 4. Time loana atrong: sixty and ninety days, 4,4)41 per cent, alx months, 4fr Prime mercantile. S per cent. Starling exchange firm, with actual hurlnesa In tankers' bills st 14 13 20 for sixty-day bills, and st 14 S7.M for dsmand. ds-mand. Cnmmsrdal hllla, 14.121 Bar stiver, 12 rente. Mexican dollars, 41 rant. Or.vernment bonda rary; railroad bonds weak. NEW YORK METALS NBW YORK. Oeb. 17 Copper eteady; spot and February. 114 bid. March. April and Mar. 114(11410; alactrolytlr, fll; lake, lil.lt; caatlnga. 4 71. Tin Irregular; apot. 4 f.a 49.21, February. Feb-ruary. 141 H'14141.10: March. lis 1f.ll i; April. 47.7.i44t.l21. I . ..1 qulsl, 14 Utt 4 li Spelter riulst, H.I.I4)4.40 Antimony dull; cookson a. Il.404fl.60. Iron unastUed; No. 1 northern, I11.2S4S II. 71; No. 1 northern, 17.7S41 21; No. 1 southern. IIS.Ueis.7e; No. 1 aoutWn aoft. MaSltia |