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Show BUSINESS AND COPPER. Citizens of the mining states will be especially interested in a recent statement by Colonel D. C. Jackling, president of the Utah Copper company. com-pany. "I see no indications of a downward trend, or, for that matter, an upward up-ward trend, in business," Mr. Jack-ling Jack-ling said. "Naturally business men hope for a change toward better conditions. "Improvement of the German situation situ-ation would reflect itself everywhere. Copper, like other so-called wrorld commodities, would be benefited by improvements in the situation. Stabilization Stabili-zation of the silver market and improvement im-provement of prices for the metal would help everything, including copper cop-per through the reopening of markets. mar-kets. "The downward trend of copper is reflecting curtailment of production on some properties. It is a natural recession because of low prices, and as long as low prices continue, producers produ-cers cannot afford to produce more than they can dispose of." |