Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-31
DO YOU KNOW IF THE USES OF
 COPPER?
Great Variety of Articles Call ing for the Metal Is a Sur prise to the Man Who Is Not Posted.

The average man, if asked to name offhand, the uses of copper, would be likely to reply that the metal was used mainly for coining pennies and making wire, yet these uses employ barely more than quarter of the cop per that is reduced.
 On sescond thoughts he might smile at naming copper coinage as an important consumer of the metal, yet his first thought would be nearer right than his second, for the Chinese Empire has used 50,000 tons of copper for making new coins, within the last two years, thereby increasing the cir culating medium of the country to the extent of four ounces for each inhabitant-for while 5O,0OO tons of copper is a large quantity of metal sufficient to load a thousand freight cars of the heaviest type used on American railroads, it is but a quar- ter of an avoirdupois pound per cap ita, when divided among 100000, ,000 people.
 Only the expert, or those engaged most actively in the copper industry, have the slightest idea of the diver sified uses to which copper is put, as shown by chapter on the uses of the metal in the new edition of the Clipper Handbook, published by Horace J. Stevens, of Houghton, Michigan.
 According to this book copper en- ters into almost every form of hu- man activity, and the multiplicity of it's uses is most surprising.
 EIpptrip HQb are immense consumers of the metal ill the form of wire, and telephones and telegraphs find it indispensable, yet electricity requires only trifle more than a quarter of the metal trade
 The engineering trades consume more than half of all the copper pro- duced, mainly in the form of brass, but there are about a score of fric- tion metals and alloys, each having it's specific use, into which copper en- ters as a component part.
 The building trades are enormous consumers of copper, and this sort of consumption is increasing rapidly. Copper roofs, cornices, and fronts adoTn the exteTiors of business build ings in thousands of towns, while for the interior work the great majority of modern buildings use copper, brass or bronze locks, knobs and butts.
 Brass pipes, nickeled, are in mod ern bathrooms and layatOries, and brass and bronze chandeliers, gas and electric fixtures are almost invaria- ble. A dozen or more other very common domestic uses of copper are mentioned.
 In the manufacturing would Ehe uses of copper and brass are innum- erable. One concern in. the Nauga- tuck valley of Connecticut buys cop per in ten-lots, monthly, solely for the making of watch dials, all of the better grade dials being of copper. enameled.
 The common pin requires hundreds of tons of copper yearly, insignificant as a single pin may seem. Balls for shoes and tips for shoelaces require metal by the score of tons, and the thin metallic tips on rubber-tipped lead pencils are responsible for a surprising depletion in the stock of the metal
 In addition to the consumption of the metal itself, tens of thousands of tons of copper suIphate are re- quired for the arts and manufactures, and fer horticultural purposes in spraying fruit trees, bushes and vines.
 It is very evident. from a perusal of the book in question, that copper plays vital, and a far more import ant part than commonly supposed, in twentieth century civilization.