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Show REVIEW OF THE COPPER HANDBOOK The ninth annual edition of the Copper Handbook, edited and published pub-lished by Horace .1. Stevens, Houghton, Hough-ton, Michigan, has just been received. This work, which has become a standard stand-ard authority n the subject, for the entire globe, has, in lu latest edition. edi-tion. 161'S octavo pages, containing considerably more than a. million words, and. In addition to the miscellaneous miscel-laneous chapters, lists aud describes no less than 7,751 copper mines and copper mlnlag companies. In all parts of the world, descriptions ranging fron two or three lines In the. case of companies that have died recently, to sixteen pages -In the case of one of the largest mines a mine, by the way, that employs some seven thousand thous-and men. and has paid dividends of considerably more than a, hundred million dollars. The mine desci ip- j tlons are the same as in the preceding i volume, except that upwards of eight hundred new titles have been added, covering descriptions not (contained in any previous edition The chapter chap-ter of statistics, containing upwards of forty tables, treating of copper ' from almost every coucelvahle standpoint, stand-point, has been fully revised, and brought as nearly as jtossible to date. The miscellaneous chapters of the book, tweDty-four in number, treat of the subject of copper from a great variety of viewpoints, including the history, chemistry, mineralogy, metallurgy metal-lurgy and usee of the metal, and this section of the book also has chapters devoted to substitutes, alloys, brands and grades, and a copious glossary, The plan on which the hook is eold remains the same as for seven years past, the publisher sending the book by mail, fully prepaid, to any address ordered, without advance payment of any sort, and subject to )ipprov?l j after a week's inspection. The price in $5.00. That this unusually liberal plan has proven successful Is showed by the statement of the publisher that net losses through returned copies cop-ies and defaulted payments are less than four per cent Anyone Interested Interest-ed In the subject of copper, as producer, pro-ducer, consumer or Investor in shares, should write to Mr. Stevens for a copv of the Copper Handbook on tho unusually liberal terms noted. |