The Clifton clarion., 1886-12-08
Copper.

England controls the price of copper in the markets of the world, although her own mines in Corp wall do not produce much oyef lCO tons Of this metal a month. The statistics prove that she doss an immense trade in copper. For the first nine months, of this year Eng land imported s4,593 tons of cop per (metaD and exported 44,48S tons. The British production is only 9JO tons. The English home consumption was 53.294 tons; ilr- ports into France, 9,339 tons; ex- port of English copper to Frances 5,442 tons; French consumption of copper imported direct, 9,677 tons; French consumption of Eng fish copper and of copper imported direct, 15,119 tons; English con sumption and French consumption of copper imported direct and from England, 4S,413 tons; English con- sulnptior, English exports and French consumption of copper inz ported direct, S7,459 tons.
 Board of Trade returns and sta tistics kept by James Lew1s & Son, Liverpool, segregate some of these figures. The imports of ore amounted (in tons of fine copper), in the first t,itie months of 1886, to 1O,71S, of which 5,732 came from Chili and only APO came from America. This. shows we are working our ores at home nofe #, this country than formerly. Last year in the same time we sent nearly four times as much ore. Of regulus, where Chili sen5 to England 10,T18 tons, we sent from this country 10,246. Of bars and ingots, where Chili sent 1858 tons, we sent I, ,424.
 The apparent English cons1iinp- tion of foreign copper was 33,294 tons. The appatent French con- sumption was 15,119 tons, or not quite half that of England. The the total consumption of the two great nations mentioned aggre-. gated for the first nine months of this year S7,459 tons, as against 100000 tons in the same time last yeaf.
 On the first of this month the total visible supply of copper was 63,127 tons, of which 54,495 tons were in Liverpool; Swansea and London, and some little in France,
 Chili has shipped to Liverpool and Swansea in the first ten months of this year 23,914 tons, and America hae sent 12,633. The American arrivals in England and France for the past ten months are 16,094 tons, fine, agaibsS 29,264 tons during the same period of last year, a decrease of 13,170 tons-or nearly half. Lewis & Sons circu- lar states that an uneasy feeling was created in Liverpool by re- ports of the early starting of the Anaconda mine. It expresses the opinion that in view of the fact that the plant of this mine has been extended and improved, and a decline in freights and wages Is probable, the cost of production will be materially reduced in fu- ture. This prediction begins to look as if it was good one, as the dispatches this week say that the Anaconda smelters will resume with small force Of men at a re- duced scale of wages. The force will be increased as fast as men can be secured until the smelter is in full operation. The reduction of wages from the old scale is about 15 per cent. The smelter has been closed down about four months. If this statement be true, then the efforts to reduce wages have been successful; notwith- standing the refusal of the Knights of Labor to accede to tie request to do so.-Mining Press.
 The President of ore of the b1g- gest iron companies in this coun-' try told friend at the Windsor