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Show COPPER SHINGLE TRADE IS GROWING RAPIDLY Th0 rapidity with which the Anaconda Ana-conda Copper Mining company has developed Rs copper shingle program pro-gram la a feature worthy, of note, reports re-ports the Dally Metal Trade. Tha1 first stops toward .copper shingle I production were taken last October.' Equipment of a plant ia Perth Araboy, N. J., was begun la January,1 and th0 company is now turning out' 2000 copVr shingles on hour, again- j st orders on books. Dies mid othoi machinery were Installed, also a coloring plant, which enables tht company to turn out shingles In seven colors. j Rocent contracts tor copper shingles shing-les Include the Church ot the Holy1 Innocents, Brooklyn, N. Y.; thf Twelfth Reform Church, Brooklyn rorooflng; the Clinton Avenuo Con gregatlonnl Churn, Brooklyn; tht Church of the Messiah, Thlrty-rourtl and Park avenuo, New York; also' several country clubs and many rosl-j dences. A broad foreign Interest in copper shingles has beea aroused,1 with Inquiries rrom China, Europe,1 South Amorlca and the tropics. I It has been predicted that 10 per' cent or the country's roofing bust-' ness will consist or copper shingles' within another year or so. This is ot considerable slgnlflctuce to the copper Industry. About 30,000,000 squares or roofing aro used In this country annually, according to conservative con-servative estimates. One million I ! - ' squares, or thre,and one-third ear 'cent .of the total, would, take 86,0f M 000 pounds ot copper; 10 per ceat B would require oyer 260,000,000 pounds. S ' Legislation in maay cities agsJast H wooden shingles la expected to gift ' Impetus tOtbe..jt of metal shingkev I and the makers totmetal shingles at- ' serf tha relative lightness of their product! ts a teUpoiat la eompetiUea H I with composition rooting. H The absorption of tho Ameiiesa H j Brass, compaay by the Anacoala H company has enabled the latter Je ' control all of the processes, from or -ft j to finished aroaaet The ,oppr is JM produced, from the compa'ay'a of I oic, and rolled at the Ansoauv fl mill, whence for shingle purpotM- I tho shoots are shipped to Perth Aa- H boy. H |