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Show t COPPER AND SILVER ; MINING The red and white metals am to r the entire western mining lnt-ncsta n what beet and pork are to nj'.lcul- I turc. Tito entlro west is Interested In all that happens to these great Indus. trios as twin barometer of prosperity. j. It Is a matter of great Intercut (bat fc the first sales of copper for 1020 delivery was made at 23 cents. iB ' It Is remarkable ihat copier bus Bk. held against government salei, and fV 40,000,000 pounds moved In A .r- I UBt H The silver market Is still controlled jB In London and sales to the ut'err. nro m not up to the real market valuo ut H silver. H Two plans arc afoot to 'iolp the H situation a silver export as ."Union H and tlio formation of a olive.- ex- H cbango. Since the first or this year 12 0V H 000 ounces of Bllvor bullion have Hj been sold to the Far Hast at prices K below quotations there. H American pioducers belle"? they H , should have a mora dlrcpt '")1U on H . the stluatlon' as to prlei ol 'their H own output. H Prices of silver abroad liao ben H. advancing steadily but weakn3.'i or H . v sterling exchange has been .vivos-! H to sliver. |