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Show 10 COB COPPER COMBINE TO HAVE CAPITAL AT START OF $200,000,000, ACCORDING ACCORD-ING TO REPORT. French Writer Declarer That Project Supposed to Have Been Abandoned Last Spring Is to be Taken Up This Autumn Again. Paris. Tho usually well informed Monltcur Des Interests Materleloa j sums up briefly what European flnan- iV I clal people havo been lately saying ol tJ5i the proposed international coppei trust. The project, which was supposed sup-posed to havo been definitely aband-'' oned last spring, is to be taken up this' autumn again, so tho story goes now, in virtue of an understanding ar- rived nt between tho Amalgamated j Copper company, tho Guggcnhelms and tho Rio Tintos corporation. Tho known presence together In Europe ot the Interested parties has naturally been taken as a preludo to these reports. re-ports. The capital of tho new combination is said to bo $200,000,000, but, as this represents tho valuo of only a single year's production in tho United States alone, it Is added that "specla1 arrangements" ar-rangements" aro to bo mado In America Amer-ica to eke out this enormous but insufficient in-sufficient capital. Ono Paris financial critic announces that tho news of this understanding has come out just In tlmo to help Americans Am-ericans get rid of a part of their superfluous stock of copper. For tho rest, it remains to bo scon whether this "copper story" Is or Is not eventually even-tually to go tho way of Its predecessors. |