Show SEES RAY OF HOPE I IN COPPER SITUATION Crop Conditions Will Hasten HastenA r A Adjustment Sa Says r. r t t Conditions at ut the present time lime s sal said aid William II yesterday e discussing discussing dis dis- cussing the market situation arc are certainly certainly not very cry encouraging an and we wc must make malte the best of it an and await awall results Mutters Matters will be righted but it ma may take CO GO or 90 days day Already there are some seine signs o of Improvement Thc They may be bc but straws but they are significant The Butte and andew New ew York company compan has Ilas Increased tho the force at nt its mine to lo push development so as to be producing when there I Is some ome Im Improvement fin hn- provement in the copper situation The wages of or several great mining companies operating in Butte have not been rc reduced uce accor according to contract This would Indicate that the managers or 01 directors o of the tho several companies are not nol yet con confident ent that thal tile tho price of oC copper is Its fettled settled below 1 18 S cents The condition o of the whole country from the Atlantic to lo tile the Pacific is prosperous While hile the tile yield of time the crops was as a little behind that o of last year the lie JIlo producer I Is receiving a n much Jar larger el sum Never 01 before c have crops have this liEs yielded such returns as they year Cal The government o reports on the export cx- cx port movement mo of or copper for tho the mouth month of lit August l are arc out anti and malca make malce a wry very goo good showing which Is as fyi follows I August I Ij i Pounds lids value alue value alue per pound O cents cent August 1 JOG Pounds IGiS iO value ulue per pound 1 13 cents August u 1 1905 Pounds 1228 SI i I value t value lue per pound 11 15 c cents January I 1 to tu Au August u l 31 1 1 l O Pounds Pound 91 value 51 lZ value per pound 23 cents JunU January 1 to August 31 n. n 1 value j 9 1 i value alue p PI i pound 18 cents January Januar 1 t to lo August 31 Pounds i 1301 0 value value per pound poum 11 1121 cents It will be observed that thal the thc a average aver cr ras r- r I as age price irIce for copper for f. the eight olgh l months months' of this year real was wa as 3 cents a fur for tho 1110 o first 15 t eight months of oC io IS 18 cents and for fOI the thc eight months of or J 1905 90 li 1 cents Vo We should therefore be he able to lo v dru some sonic comfort from Crom such a n. showing |