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Show FOREIGN COPPER SITUATION STRONG, WITH GOOD DEMAND Thn a Biifht rduotkm In th battwtr trades of copper mtJ last waak. tha price belrn marked down to 1S cents by some of tha agencies 1b tha east-One east-One of tha earfeet aa-endee says that tha demand haa Improved and that last week's business was much better than the precedlns due." Despite this Httle flurry at home the foreign metal markets have held firmly Under data of May IT, a London correspondent writes tha Kawa Bureau aa follows: "Quite at the close of last week a very good buying movement started in cop per, principally on the part of the Con Unantal trades, snd excellent aalea were medV hence It was not much matter for surprise that at the reopening of business busi-ness aftsr the Whitsuntide holidays the chief producers should have raised their prices. The' tonnage booked amply Justified Justi-fied that step. It was felt apart altogether alto-gether from tha remarkably good statistic statis-tic of the American Copper Producers association, which were lasued before the vacation, and which for this reason failed to have their full effect. "Tt Is remarkable how some of the first class Arms hers refuse to take these returns re-turns at their face value, and atlll talk about the figures being "faked." and of me ta I being shipped to Europe from America to be put Into private stores, or otherwise manipulated, or roneeeiad. "As far as can be gathered there 1 till a real want of copper felt and even today consumers had to pay a premium of 5 a ton to get hold of material ex-warehouse. ex-warehouse. This does not look much like concealed stocks. Rather more business In copper Is being done In Germany, and Austria has also dona a nice bit of buying buy-ing In addition to which France haa cut a respectable figure. "The flatness of the standard market on Thursday waa quite unexpected A contributory cause waa no doubt the feet that on tha previous afternoon a leading firm of dealer with Important American connections came out aa pretty free sellers sell-ers News of this at once found its way to the continent, and at the opening on Thursday brokers held selling orders to a considerable amount and the selling liquidation liqui-dation that ensued brought prices down about 1 within a very short time. Added to thla the Indifference of the larger houses, and the abeence of support, coupled cou-pled with weaker New York shsres, and Berlin seWnr on the stock axchsnsre. and the fall la easily enough explained. "As has been remark sd In an earlier letter, apeculator do not ilk th weakness weak-ness In th German Iron and steel position, posi-tion, end the uncomfortable feeling which thla ha engendered 1 now being accentuated by French works offering rather vigorous competition In tha British Brit-ish market. The big De Wendel plant has been much too prominent In Its en-deavor en-deavor to find a resting plac abroad for part of Its output for confidence to be felt- At the earn time It must not be overlooked that the production of the world In Iron and ateel haa Increased much more rapidly than that of copper, while the consumption of the latter has kept step well with that of Iron hence conditions are not exactly parallel, and a falling off In the consumption of Iron may yet leave a scarcity of th red metal. "The decision of the Rio Tlnto company com-pany laat year to abandon the manufacture manufac-ture of R T. Ingot has resulted In the disappearance of this materia from the market. Nobody In the trade can understand under-stand why such a policy should have been pursued, seeing that the Ingot had a wonderful sale, were a atandard grade and that many consumers, especially In Lancashire, would have nothing els However, there It la, the brand haa gone, and a dealer who this week had an order for five tone had to tell hi buver that the stuff was no longer made, and that the brand had gone out of commercial xlatenc." NEW YORK CURB CLOSE Jama A. Pollock A Co.. banker and broken. It South Main street, furnish th following, received over their private wire this afternoon: ! Bid. lAsked Ely Consolidated I 7 First National Copper I 21 Glroux fonsolidsted I II Yukon Gold I 1-1 1 11.1a New Keystone 1 2 NIplMlng I It Ohio Copper Bay Central t La Roe t 21 South Utah Brltiah Columbia Copper.. 2 2 Bey State Gas . (.it Bradan tl M Mason Valley t t Ontario I 2 I Colorado I It M Iron Bloesom I 1M 14! Nevada Hllla 17 100 NEW YORK CURB RANGE James A. Pollock A Co.. bankor end broker, furnish the following, received over their private wire this afternoon: IBsles ' High. 1 Low. I Close First Nat l I ' 21 Glroux Con. 2.IM1I 13-lt 1 12.16 1 13-16 Yukon Gold 2 ll-l Ohio Cop. N. Keystone 2 South Utah i Mas. Vallty Braden Cop. 1.50 i Hay Cbn. ... ll.M T 7 La Rose too 2 2t t Nevada Hills !O0 1M I Ml Kerr Lake f l.OOO' I 3-16 I 1-1! 11 Belmont 1 1 t Tonopah J I !( Alaska Gold ( 500' llj 11 jfl NEW TORK LISTED STOCKS. James A. Pollock A Co.. banker and broker, ltt Main street, furnteh th following, fol-lowing, received over their private wire thl afternoon: Sale.1 High. ' Low. 1 Cloee. Chino I 2.701 tt"! VSV i" Goldfleld Conl 10! III l II Inspiration .1 2001 i 1 I i Miami Cop... I SM' 22t 221! 211 Nev Con 1.1MI 161 11 11 Ray Con 2.000' 11 is( mi Tenn Cop ...I 4001 3ll 3t ' !2 Utah Oop....1 4.2M' 411' 4111 4s !tudebkr Cm so., 2 241 241 Ont Bllv ....I 1 1 21 NEW TOaX MONEY NEW YORK. June : Money on call, firmer. 2191 per cent: ruling rate. I per cent; dosing bid. "i per cent; offered at t per cent. Time loan, steady: sixty days, " 1 -n per cent: ninety dera. 4 per cent, alx months, 4 per cent Prime mercantile paper, li per cent. Sterling exchange, eteady. with actual business In bankers' Mils at 14.13 10 for sixty-day bills snd at 14 so for demand rommerrlel billa, 14 !l Bar silver. tOc. Mexican dollars. 4tc. Government bonds, stead ) Railroad bonds, heavy. CHICAGO PRODUCE CHIT AGO. June 1. Butter l.'nchaaged KgtT f'nettanged; receipts, ?9.43I caeea. PotatoeeLower for old; higher for new; receipts, old. 14 cars; Michigan. 35 40c; Minnesota. Setttac. Wisconsin, lata Mr: receipts, new. 40 cars 11 00 (j 1.2. Poultry Higher; chicken. lire. lac. springs, ally. lc |