Show AMERICAN COPPER AND TN TIN PRODUCTS PRODUCTS'S t S 'S Statistics Showing the Tremendous Tre Ire I men do us Growth of the Metal Trade I T athIng Juno I The G.-The The report ot of 5 the bureau of statIstIcs department of shows that h the tho United Stales I produces One half ot of the worlds world's copper and exports far moro more than an any t other country countr It Is also ono one or of the largest or of that rhe value 1 or of Copper Imported Into th the f 1 t worth States Stae or of In 1906 In this his wa WI total over o er 37 71 7 copper ore while S iS nt it fh the lie time Porting exporting over o er we 90 were j worth wOIth o of the tho metal including S in m fl tills this sum a little less les than y worth of copper ore of o COpper Ingots tj early S and of other cop cop- 1 c ier 1101 between n and 5 ThIs anomaly alomal ot of f tho the l COpper Producing Country of or the world Im Im- Im such Buch lar largo large e quantities of ot copper cop cop- per POI groys apparently out of or tho the fact fac that hut tho the United S. S States has superior j fuelling and refining facilities an and 1 that tho the copper from front Us its Is Immediate'S immediate S 'S n neighbors to tho the north and south south- 5 Canada and MexIco MexIco-flo's Mexico flows to Its smelting establishments and refineries Is j I A considerable part of or the pig copper imported Is brou brought ht In for or tho the purpose S or If extracting the precious metals which S It Jt contains and a part of ot this a comes i J t S from froni European countries How much of r this worth of copper Imported is exported re-exported un under er tho title tWe of American copper cannot be determined determined deter deter- mined as nn any Imported article which artcle 4 has undergone a further process of oC i manufacture after entering the United i j I States I Is i. when wion exported reported to L the bureau of ot statistics as a domestic manufacture It H Is IN also interesting to note that S I th the United States which has steadily reduced Its Is importations of or tin tn plate I S from more than pounds I In the f fiscal cal year ear 1891 to iq In the tho calendar year ear 1896 has now I 1 become an exporter of ot that artcle article and that the exportation of or tin tn plate J Si o of domestic manufacture were In I 1906 In value against I 1 In 1905 1906 in 1904 J Jj j In 1902 In 1901 and andI I In 1900 |