Show SILYER COPPER AKD LEAD Stiles Slow rUb a General Depression Depres-sion All Around From the weekly circular of Messrs Matthews Well ore and bullion brokers of Denver we take the following in regard to the condition of the metal markets for the past week Silver has been fairly steady but no plan for putting the whole matter into satisfactory shape has been presented and the present rate of coinage may easily be kept up until next year Prices have ranged at 107106 for the week Copper according to our intimations given last week has not responded to the noble bull movement that was made but to the conhv < it has softened in its price so that at N York Lake in a moderate way was solu u 11 30 to 11 50 while the other brands varied from W6 up to 11M cents All the sales however did not aggregate over 300000 pounds All the circulars try to make out great shortages short-ages but the Calumet Hecla reports just made up to June 1 go to show that they will produce in 1885 nearly 5000000 pounds than were made in 1SS4 by them So that the halfrunning of the Anaconda and other Montana and Arizona mines may even yet not he sufficient advance rates here The Pope Cole works at Baltimore will be started up again shortly with new capital and under a new organization organi-zation Our cables quote Chili bars at J44 lOs and best selected at 49 Lead has been rather slow of sale both east and west but 1000 tons were worked off being 500 at St Louis at 345 mostly corroding and 300 at 350 Chicago Chi-cago with 200 at 365 New York the two qualities being now on a level The corroders met at Niagara June 10 and 11 and determined to put the price East and West at G cents and intend to make another advance soon There are many disquieting rumors that the production is I getting shorter than the demand and that all the lead will soon be bought up and prices advanced but no practical results re-sults have yet shown themselves The tone of depression characterizes general gen-eral business has impregnated the lead trade and the consumers all around will certainly pursue a very conservative course throughout the summer At London Lon-don prices remain without change and Spanish lead is offered at 110 17s or say 4V cents laid down at New York duty paid |