Show A SOUND proposition 0 abey the copper market has 7 been un usually quiet and the becent drop in commodity prices has 74 apparently caused some buyers af to think that az copperi 7 will go still lower 2 this Is faw unlikely as copper 7 Is now isy and has been for months 4 past 7 practically fe at pre war 1 figures hysaw when w cost of wy opera tion Is considered 2 an official 2 of a large copper coin pany says that exorbitant profits be icesy ing demanded by manufacturers 21 of copper and brass goods are doing much to keep kiy down domestic con of copper if lowia people sa are us y ing substitutes when iw faced with the high prices demanded 2 for copper and brass products this policy of manufacturers has caused as the public to suffer and the mining industry to suffer producers have 7 been mining 2 aff their ore and making it into copper at practically 7 wy no profit for almost two years yet manufacturers vy have refused to reduce their profits mine a operators are becoming tired of such 7 proceedings the result Is 7 quite likely y to be an entry of the copper abw producers into copper and brass manufacturing thus making copper companies a self maintained enterprises similar to steel coin banies anaconda has pointed the way at great 3 ralls it Is already drawing copper into 7 wire and 7 it would w not be surprising ff to faff see it making brass isow before long american aa smelt ing and refining Clomp any say has been rolling copper 3 into u sheets for years if important copper producers should find themselves cwi forced to 2 curtail production drastically within the next few beeks it Is very pro liable div that they 7 will v make plans for entering upon the manufacturing bt copper goods thereby a protecting ys themselves cw aa in the future from the shortsighted i capac afa ous ff a middlemen of the copper y industry abw the manu facture rs awe i we ilene many western states would wiy fit materially 0 as this would div mean the employment of additional labor for new industries |