Show ONE THING ONLY IN WAY YAY OF BIG 1116 BOOM i With National Contest Settled Nothing Could Stop Progress Prowess MORE MONEY THAN EVER Producers Not Worried lorried Over Copper Says Thomas Weir I Wore th the question of who vho I is to tobe I Ibe be the next President and what the 11 1 complexion of oC the next congress absolutely ab nh- nh- nh nhI I settled then would bo he the r c-r greatest atcH boom in all nil lines of or bu business ines and ever eyer seen Industry that this country has 1 J This statement tat ment wai Wl made mi yesterday by hy Thomas Thoma Weir well known mining men man nd one time candidate for congre con con- gress gres gre s who ha has Just returned from a n. three months months' tour tOUl of E Europe rope accompanied p 1 by Mrs Irs Weir Veir On the thc wn way home hom Mr 11 Weir stopped fl several everal days las In ew New York and other cl eastern tern cities where herc herche he took occa occasion lon to study l the to liu business situation There I Is really nothing tho the matter matter mat mat- ter except a fear fear of something untoward un tin- nt n- n t toward th that l ml might ht happ happen n he hc continued con con- d a feeling of uncertainty that keeps Jeeps mon money In banks bank and safety vaults vault rather rathel than employing ii il in needed Improvements and ann extensions exe of industries arid utilities There never r has haR h been n so to much money mone monein in the country country- O mtr a. a as LS there 9 5 loda today While the drops crops rop are not the largest in history the they are comparatively hel heavy and md at prevailing prices will surely break hrcak the record in the tho matter of or the aggregate at am amount of or mone money the they will wiil bring mi Improvements Needed Seeded l er I Not a n railroad in the mt cf country is II isable isable able to do ro the business 5 that I is offered it to do The They all aU need new cars car new f trod track nc new Improvements everywhere c But the clement element of ot uncertainty as to what might happen to them through h legislation or 01 oth otherwise e renders in investment investment in- in vestment in their securities somewhat hazardous in the opinion of the public pub put He lic and the companies are aro accordingly I unable to draw upon the tho plethora of ot Idle funds for COl th the means mennS to make th the Improvements which It Jl Is Imperative e should be made This holding up of ot Improvements hn has of or course affected toe demand nd for tor copper and kindred commodities and there I is contraction everywhere herc instead or of the expansion exp which conditions ennui condi warrant The enforced halt holt in national progress rem ress ma may be a R good thing in the end It gives give Ive us a le lesson on in caution and will give ym Ic us Ul new a. a new nev start upon n upon n t more nore conservative e basis I dont think the large e producers ers are w worrying about the price e of at copper They would rAther rAth- rAth er take tko to the new start at tho bottom than to have had tho the price Juice reduced by degrees There is no doubt about the demand for 01 copper at least equalIng equalIng equal equal- Ing the supply when thin things get straightened out a again aln which I r be be- lI here lIA A will vill not take long Mr l Weir says ars that the compressor plant and building bunding- of or the Ute Copper company at which were were- de destroyed do- do b by fire about two weeks a ago o. o will bo ho replaced at once and ond he ho e ex expects x poets peets within another two weeks to h have thin things In Sn working order again I |