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Show COFFER PRICES ARE MIXED AND BIG SALES ABE REPORTED Copper produoere are much elated over the reportt that electrolytic copper Is looted at Kl cents. It It claimed that ' Lbe Amalgamated Selling agents have booked tosne bustnese at this price. though It la known that the Independent e'ling attendee are etui making sales as low aa 131 cents. During ilia duller ' period, wben consumers compelled pro- . iwett to carry the surplus stock ot red metal, a considerable amount of critic una wee directed et the Amalgamated crowd for holding out fur top market prices for ' the metal and at one time ealen were reported aa low ae U cents a pound. A , rln of I cente within a short period enowt the wisdom of the position these . people aeeumed. and there la every aseur-eaoe aseur-eaoe et this time that a 11-cent copper Biarket will be permanently established . within a few weeks time. In the oopper world the action of the Amalgamated company hat long been re- f anted at the barometer of trade oondl-loaa. oondl-loaa. Ryan le seld to have been at the bead of the movement for curtailment ot the product a yeer ago. Foreign consumers con-sumers eaw the hand writing on the well and were the Irrst to go Inn- the open msrhet and buy freely. Domeetlo consumers con-sumers have at laet became aroused to the eondltlone and are buying more freely, free-ly, but the foreign consumere are to he, congratulated oa getting the cheaper copper metal. An eastern writer who makes a careful study of the situation haa the following to ear: "Viewing the copper situation from a ' world standpoint and this la Ihe only adequate view to take It la apparent that today oopper la going Into consumers' consum-ers' tuuide ae rest at the ore la coming out of the ground. The foreign demand e particularly Impressive and Europe la breaking ell records In the volume of lit copper melt I net. In this country a recovery re-covery of cents per pound, or from It to 12 eenta. has take place and It would require very little encouragement for ' the prstsnt rather large stock of visible copper to pate Into Invisible hands the warehouses and Mat of the manufacturers. manufac-turers. "The frequent publication of surplus storks of copper in this country and abroad haa tended to keep the domestic buyer out of the market for large pur-rhneet pur-rhneet and haa encouraged hand to mouth buying. These atrores have alto tended to create the Impreeelon that aa exoet-elvely exoet-elvely large surplus of oopper wat above ground, whereee. aa a matter of feet, tbe surplus Is not of undue proportions. The only difference being that Ihe seller rather than the buyer baa been 'carrying the goodt. "It le dearly apparent that a decided Improvement In sentiment haa taken place and that bltger ntisineee and water profits for the producing oopper mine are la eight" |