Show COPPER OUTLOOK IS DISCOURAGING They have a peculiar 1 way cay of mailing metal quotations at times in the eastern east east- em ern markets is the way one of ot the bl big big- nine mine managers put it this morning upon hIs ils 1 s return from a protracted stay In New NewYork NewYork ew sty York and Boston Doston Continuing he lie s said This s applies I i more especially f to copper as su u there Is not such a great t variety of market lt p prices dlela op given e on silver and lead 1 In tho o case sf of copper some of th the small smal producers and consumers consumer will get together on prices that could not o possibly control o in n the Nt event t of a I large sale Last week I In New NewYork NewYork f York some seine Ia sales es of the red metal were reported as low n as 13 cents Our company com corn fa pany transaction had i n occasion and In to every e inquire instance Into t toJ found oJ the d that these sales were questionable and even if they had ha taken place it was vas for only a few pounds of at t cue refined product Our company is yield yielding In better than pounds of copper each month It has a been sonic some time I since we considered considered consid consid- ered e a price as low as sO sOl l 13 cents ent a a pound g t tand and unless sales have been made by bye byI our agents e at this s figure during the coming I week Ek it tr is sn n not f probable ba yI that at we shall consider such a low price for the tle present Our company compan in common with wih other large producers producer frequently holds f our re refined 1 product for several fJ weeks and andIn andin In some instances s has carried it for s seral several say sev eral months Where a company has sufficient sufficient suf suf- le surplus PI to Justify the carrying carr of t trl i f an output t during a temporary r lull In Inthe inthe the market It i Invariably makes maltes money in the end for tor it i Is a matter of Just a afew afew afew few da days ne when better prices are obtainable obtainable obtain obtain- able abl where v. the big producers hold the visible supply Copper Coppel producers are not discouraged by rt the ll apathy It should ru shown 0 be en borne in the h In n market mind that for this is one of the dull dun seasons of the theyer ver yer and simply a repetition of ot what has hast happened el for r generations n in all lines of t trade during t rl t the hottest rs months n Factories Factories Fac Fac- tories that have or orders ers stacked up ahead cannot turn out as much work during th the hot weather Employees take their thel summer vacation and a number of ot the workmen become ill 1 In In the summer sea sea- son This hll of Itself curtails the consumption consumption tion to a 9 marked degree and naturally causes ton ran an Increase in the surplus These conditions in no way discourage the copper copper copper cop cop- per mine owners and upon my trip I found that the capitalists upon were In Inthe Inthe Inthe the market for more copper properties |