Show Curtailing Zinc Production Product ProductionS on I By Ira ITa C. C Tichenor S I f r r and other Western mining raining interests will beI be bo I UrAH J U greatly interested in the announcement that 90 O per jut t of the zinc producers of the Joplin n Mo lo district are ave closed their plants The importance of the move n n be b. judged when II Jl Is realized that tho Joplin district produces 50 per cent of ot U the e worlds world's output of ot zinc While representatives of ot some Interests closet closely associated with tit je e zinc Industry express the tho belief belleC that the shutdown will n not nt nott t more mOte than a R. fortnight the consensus of ot opinion seems to be bet t t the tho price of ot the metal will ivill have havo to take a vigorous upward o before operations are resumed d to the full tull extent the tho early carly pant of oC the tho present the During During- year ear price of ot zinc ras as relatively firm at 9 cents a n. pound but since March It has hasen hasen en en declining until at this time 7 74 i cents is the usual quotation iid ad with little litH or no business moving Taking Into consideration o 0 present wage scale and the abnormal cost of ot supplies and It Is declared that the price of zinc must be considerablY considerably considerably consider consider- ably above 4 cents cens a a. pound to permit a R. reasonable lc profit it Is declared that export business of or zinc during tho the past nth practically has ceased According to authority zinc Inc Is telling dUn In London today at a price which the American producer annot hope to meet even with tho the low exchange rate rAto and other A factors Two of ot th the large smelters In England havo have I Closed down o owing to th the slump In the the- continental demand While the situation Is 18 bad tho the outlook for zinc Is bright There Thera Is an unusually small email amount of ot surplus zinc above round jound at present probably probably smaller than it has been for tor many 1 I Ie e ears r The metal l was onas absorbed freely treelY during the latter later r pa part t o of 19 and during the tho early months of at the present year and it It ItIs Is that the surplus stocks cannot amount to more tha than thans S. S s oo tons In view of ot the tie fact tact that the market la Is almost bare baro of oC tho I m tal al and that the production practically is at a standstill any anyn I n in consumption will win be followed by a a. healthy advance anco in price price S |