The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-01
VIEWS ABOUT COPPER
rom the Tendon Financial News.

From the Tendon Financial News,
Dec. o.
The English public has probably very
little idea of the enormous progress
which has been made in other coun-
tries. especially in America, in the ap-
plication OF electricity to the needs Of
common life. Our telephone system is
the worst and least popular In the
world. Our tramways are SIN unsup-
piled with the method of traction which
even ~second-rate cities in Germany are
using to the greatest public advantage.
Our streets are still left to a great ex-
tent to that fickering gas which only
just renders darkness visible. Our un-
'deerground railways are still for the
most part ll-ventilated sewers where
we are liable to be stified by sulphur
and bad air. Our factories are, as yet,
but to a small extent lighted by cleo
tricity. And electricity as a motive
power has not yet become of n i'm
portance in our Industrial life.
This state of things cannot possibly
continue. Somehow or another we have
TO keep pace with the rest Of the world,
which is certainly not standing still,
and already in this matter OF electrical
appliance, Is far ahead Of Great Brit
ain. This ration which took the lead
in the development of steam power in
the factory industry, is charged with
falling behind altogether at the present
moment in Healing with the accumula-
ton of fofce by electrical Methods
whether subj force be derived from the
etored-up u of coa or from
those great water powers in which this
island is Certainly by no means de-
fcient. but which at present we are
wholly unable to make use of even so
well as litte Switzerland. IL we are
to hold our own in the worlds compe-
tition, however, he time cannot be far
distant WHEN the bore of the Severn
and the wtterfalls of Scotland and
Wales will te put to the same purposes
as similar rpwers would certainly long
since have been applied TO in other
countries. This means that here, as
elsewhere. Everything which is neces-
sary for the of electrical
power will experience a great and
growing dehand.
Now. COPPER bears to electricity al
most the same relation which iron does
to steam. Every such step in the prog
ress of electricity as that which con-
sists in the Harvesting Of the rapids Of
Niagara for the service Of ankind in
wolves an extension of the use of this
metal. and the line of factories which
has already sprung up along the road
from Buffalo to Niagara. supplied with
motive power, heat and lighting from
the rapids of the Niagara or 81. Law
renee rivers, means that so much more
copper is requbSd for this purpose
alone. IT is the same with the extern
sion Of electrical tramways and the de-
velopment of the use Of brass and other
mixed metals in other departments Of
industry. The demand for copper. in
fact. Is certain not to diminish. and TO
all appearances must very largely in
crease within the next few years. We
are obviously entering upon an cleo
trical period. Fol cables alone a heavy
demand is expected TO at once arise, as
soon as the political situation becomes
q little clear. In such conditions IL Is
natural that we should look at the cop
per supply with a view to forming a
Judgment as TO how far the mines at
present in full work can meet the pres
ent. M more especially the future. de-
mand. The outlook at the Is
scarcely encouraging 10 those who look
for a cheap supply OF this most import
ant metal For some years past, owing