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Show SELLING COPPER AT 14.5 CENTS A POUND New York. Jan. 25. Rlectrolytic ' oiper sold today at 14.5 cents per pound, regular terms, for February and March delivery. Round amounts I nre said to have been Involved in ' the transactions. It is expected that a further advance will take pi, ire in 'the immediate future, bit for the time' I being some selling companies are' said to be supplying customers nn' the old basis of 14 cents. The European demand for copper has not as yet been satisfied and it is believed that Russia and other European Eu-ropean countries involved in war will require additional supplies of the red metal for war purposes. The sugges j tion that the 25,000,000 pounds of copper cop-per recently purchased by Russia was part of the 50,000,000 pounds slezed by British war vessels In trnn-sit trnn-sit from this country to continental : ports and held at Gibraltar by the iiritih government is ridiculed In the trade According to some of the i interests here whose shipments Were seized some time ago by British war essels the) have not disposed of B single pound of metal so seized ann according to their advices the copper Is still held at Gibraltar |