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Show is another roofing material which is as nearlyl perfect as copper. Aside I from its long life it is absolutely fire resisting. During the first three months of 1925, the United States produced 494,990,000 pounds of copper, cop-per, outranking all other countries. Western copper, lead, zinc, silver mines furnish the raw material for a great percentage of the conveniences which set civilization standards today. THE GREAT WEST PRODUCES EVERLASTING METALS The copper roof on the dome of the Massachusetts state house at Boston was put on in 1831 and in its 93 years of life not one cent has been spent to repair copper base that was panited yellow in 1831, covered with leaf gold in 1874 and regilded in 1888 to 1914. It is doubtful if there |