Show waz although it was expected fW the tf head ay long rush of consumers to purchase copper during the yr last ninety days would result in a lull in the metal mar ww ket afy for a few weeks says the boston news bureau ai 17 copper 1 men do not be heie that any substantial w decline in price will occur copper stocks bane been ery awry materially lightened money aai awi 7 should y begin 1 to come in in greater alume vis just now from deliveries and the bwy cash position of the larger prodoc vy vday ers ay will be such that wy they dyff mill hold yf a awas firmly to current quotations avra of around 19 cents per pound one boston wont pro a ducer last week sold over pounds of copper at 19 cents 1 for de livery during risca the next fortnight he v refused a 1000 pound avav order aff for LS 5 delivery in april at 20 cents per pound it 16 estimated that surplus stocks a of copper at the present time are less 7 than avav WO haaf pounds 70 including VS 7 metal in process t W and wt en if route to re fineries sales for november decem ber and january approximated pounds with smelter output at the present 2 time averaging 13 pounds of copper a month some 7 22 conception of the tremendous inroads made on surplus s stocks during wa the last rf ninety days may be had this business mould have boosted if the V price of copper at least 2 or 3 cents per pound but producers believed it better 0 0 dispose afis of 7 i their 7 metal in stead of 4 marking up quotations sales of copper for export saisy continue brisk jaw they seem to hae ha e disregarded the temporary lull in domestic buying ioway although i foreign exchanges are demor I 1 european countries are buying I 1 american copper with american dol I 1 lars bew balm lalm superior producers in par iwer doing a fsr large slyly export business on 11 a dollar basis but the copper mon ing overseas is not enough relatively W large though wavy it Is to care for aej tl i ing more dyrr chaa a day to day demand big foreign evvy business wv is still a potentiality vy a as most all foreign business Is of yf course fi done through ervay ErV the vy copper ex port association of sales made by this association the 11 merican smelt fi ing refining company r ea gets 40 per suy cent w the united W metal selling 1 H coin f sr pane 00 per cent phelps dodge 10 per V cent 7 and iffa the 04 remainder 28 per aag cent split tip proportionately g 7 ta e 0 o called ais 7 is TI e Ameil can a smelting compan N t fully i entitled iw f to the lion S hare hom e or because 1 it has div annual sales in no amal times from all its subsidiaries and customers of 1000 pounds of copper V |