Show SILVER LEAU LE D AND ANU COPPER PRICES HIGHER AT START OF WEEK EEK Silver Siver lead load and copper prices this week are higher r than they were at- at at atthe the openIng openIng open- open Ing log a I week ago The white metal reached a new high Saturday by settling at 66 cents an ounce and the average price of lead this week is 16 cents a hundred hundred hun hun- dred higher while copper Is about fc c higher The chan change e came quicker than some producers had anticipated yet the surprise Is all al th the more appreciated be because because be be- cause It is believed to be a forerunner of higher quotations during the remainder of the year Of the recent copper movement movement movement move move- ment one authority says Reported sales of or copper for tor third quarter delivery at 27 2714 cents exaggerate the Improvement that has taken place In the market according to representatives of the largest producing interests The market unquestionably is In much stronger position than It has been at any rl time since quotations U b began n to ease off a few weeks k ago JIO but t the nr r recovery o has not been quite so sharp as the foregoing foregoing foregoing fore fore- going figure would indicate Sales of October-November October copper have been made at as high as 27 cents and and it is 13 understood there Is very little copper available under that figure Foreign Foreign For For- eign demand while not especially large is absorbing a fair amount of the metal Stocks of lead lend are quite low according to advices from the East It is aid ald that while the smelting le g plants are arc un at capacity a I and rt larger aJ deliveries have been made of oC recent date It is feared that there will wi be another shortage before beor mines can be again brought up to a I higher capacity There Is a feeling out that tat during the winter months the production pro pro- ducton will wU be much below the demand I and that smelters may decide again to order larger shipments from the mines mine Inan in inan inan an effort efort to build up their stock plies pIles ples for forthe forthe forthe I the winter months when some of the properties cannot get their ore to the market There is such a sentiment In favor of ot I silver siver going higher that thal this Idea alone should have its Is Influence A larger de demand demand do- do mand inand mand for the white metal is so forceful at times that it gives one an idea of ot I what may be expected when the reconstruction reconstruction recon recon- period sets in and the real l t de demand demand de- de mand Is experienced e The h highest h au- au au authorities I all al agree agee that silver has the I brightest outlook of all al the metals for along a along long pull and that it should u get higher quotations s for a number Jn e of years a t n making r i I silver mining operations among the most i i profitable of ot any of the properties I |