Show SETTER BETTER LEAD PRICES ARE CONSIDERED CERTAIN Snit Salt Lake Lalo Aug 18 litA A canvass n Ii the mining and smelting clr cir d J es f of tho rho city In search of or opinions Iu the lead situation sl discloses a practically practical unanimous belief heller that prices are due to rise but bul there thore Is nothing now in tho the situation of a i sufficient tangible form to permit an any definite Idea as ns to when the upward movement would begin One smelt smeltIng smeltIng smelting Ing engineer said ald 1 yesterday There Thore Is a 0 scarcity of lend load ores and then are arc no new lead load camps bo be boIng b bIng belag Ing lag opened up tip Tho The production is it n very ry unsatisfactory yet at the tho same time there thero is ia such a reduced con consumption consumption that prices for tho the metal do donot donot donot not havo a chance to harden hardon In ex explaining the unsatisfactory condi conditions lions ions now DOW existing with the National J I lv Lead Vad jad company com pan President L A Colo Call laid laM special emphasis on the dimin l trade and the Increased ell price of linseed oil and this company which stands to lo the lend lead smelters I as the smelters stand to the lead leadmine leadmine mine mino owners has had Ind to reduce Its dividends Hard Ilard times strikes right and left without regard to lo feelings During Durin the Uw present period the th thI Iw property I owner is not Dol painting his house linuse as a She rule no matter how badly it Il needs It t Money Is tight so BO the homes must go without a fresh frosh coa coat of paint until next year Reduced building operations moan a reduced for plumbing supplies of which lead provides the rho Important item Hem These are only two points In Ina Inn ina a n situation which is with conditions of 01 unfavorable Tho The only question Is II not will wl prices im nu improve prove it would world be bo ridiculous to doubt this but when won will they lher Improve I |