Show LOCAL PEOPLE B BUYING YIN I MINING STOCKS S ON OM LARGE LARE SCALE Not in years ears has there be been as much local capital invested in mining stocks as has been within a few weeks recently The brokers have been Unusually unusually un un- usually busy handling this trading and yesterdays yesterday's holiday found all aU the brokerage brokerage brokerage bro bro- offices working with large cler cler clerical lent ical forces behind closed doors Some of ot them wi will be Just as busy today toddy for there were almost a million shares of ot stock traded in on the exchange last week for which the purchasers checked out Brokers will wf clean cean up the unfinished business bring their books up UI to date and prepare for one of the busiest weeks ever experienced for this Is what Is looked forward to this week in the stock pit pi You can shut your eyes and buy anything anything anything any any- thing and it I will wi make mak you a profit is the e expression SI used by very every broker that Is s asked I as f to his opinion K of ro the market They do donot not mean that that this change will wi come in a day but they they haven't time to go into details They mean that thai the stocks will wl all al show good gains within a reasonable length of time for while conditions are different than ever before a fair degree of ot optimism optimism opt opt- is maintained Sentiment on the market rises and aid and falls faUs for tor most traders are speculators 1 and are now willing to wait for the thelong thelong thelong long pull pul There are ae a few investors of considerable means that that have held on I I and are ae still holding They believe that the dividend paying stocks will wi go much i higher and in special instances are figuring figuring fig fig- fg- fg that that prices will wi be doubled It I is not difficult to see how the prod producing cing mines will wl continue to pile pie up enormous profits for foi more than a year even though the war may end abruptly The Th demand deman for metals is expected to be greater geater after the war is over but study the situation as best we can there is no definite indication of az an early termination of th the war Metal prices have have all aU reached new new high points the past week are being paid in the big markets for metal that is ready for immediate de de- de- de livery lver This applies apples more particularly to copper and spelter Lead buying has been so good that the small smal dealers are obtaining a higher price than that thal that named by the leading interests The outlook for big profits in mining was never so promising and the big market marketis is destined to remain for several years |