Arizona republican., 1907-10-05

| " ueSfraDle, rom the point or view or
 the managers of another candidate, for instance; of Judson Harmon, the Cin- cinnati lawyer. whose speech on Ohio day at the Jamestown exposition was
 very we'll received. Mir. Harmon is
 one of the men whom President Roose-
 welt engaged to investigate the charges
 of relating against the Atchison Rail-
 road company, and who recommended
 that proceedings be brought against
 the Presidents friend, Paul Morton.
 Both the New York Times and the
 Sun, have been giving space to ex-
 tensive reports from the South to the
 effect that Bryan had lost ground in
 that section and would not be sup
 ported in the convention by Southern
 delegates.
 Recently the metal shares have been
 under pressure. The cut in the price
 of copper has been a severe blow to
 many of the smaller copper mining
 companies whose existence, being of
 recent origin. had not yet permitted
 the installation of such complete ma
 chinery as to make possible the profit able production of copper even at 15 cents. Representatives of some of the important metal selling interests have privately expressed the opinion that the price of copper would decline to II cents a pound and that the price of lead would also go lower. The large producers and metal selling agencies who were vehemently denouncing the New York Metal Exchange few months ago, because it dared to make . lower quotation for the metal than the one which the trust wanted to ex- act from consumers are now trying to explain how it happened. This they find a hard task and the truth seems to be that the much vaunted business of H. H. Rogers. who has been the active head of the Amalga- mated Copper company and its affili- ated concerns, is after all nothing but the sagacity of the highwayman who succeeds onl- so long as the passen- ger consents to be held up. Perhaps MT. Rogers sagacity suffered because of illness He is at present far from well and recently the stock exchange heard a report that he had died. It Is a curious fact that the three most prominent members of the Standard Oil clique. namely: H. H. Rogers, Will liam Rockefeller and James Stillman, have all been seriously i'll for the past year.
 The largest market for copper shares outside of Boston is on the New York curb and during the recent break in these stocks there has been wild ex- citement on the curb during business hours. The noise annoyed some of the people who have offices in the imme- diate vicinity of the curb market and threats were made to drive the brok- CTS from the street. on the ground that their shouting constituted a nuisance The threat failed deservedly but it served to call attention to some of the unpleasant features of the outside mar <et and a movement is now under way
 In which J. Thomas Rheinhardt, of 3S Broad street, whose office overlooks the curb. and others are leaders to in- iroduce some reforms. These will be directed mainly towards the elimina- ton of mining companies. whose exis- tence is tinged more or less with fraud, | md consequently towards the elimin- ition of certain brokers, who prefer to | leal in fraudulent stocks.
 The investigation by the Public Ger 'ice commission into the affairs of the | Metropolitan company, which controls all the street railways 1 ,n Manhattan Island has not prevented | hat company from going ahead with ! he completion of the Belmont tunnel :, ha net ri -uns from point near the Grand | Central station on 42nd street to Long i. island city where Belmont interests l control the Queens County Electric i Street Railway system. This is the | first tunnel under the East river to | De completed and its operation will l mean great reduction in time between ]. he borough of Queens and Manhattan | sland. The Rapid Transit tunnel. | which runs from the Battery to Brook VII, is almost finished but it has de- | 'eloped some weakness in certain parts | md it will not be opened to the public | or some months to come. New York | ity is now connected with Long | sland by two tube routes and a | hird, that of the Pennsylvania rail- oad, is almost completed. With the {, Jersey side communication will soon | 'e had by means of the Hudson com 'any's tunnels, which are rapidly ap- 'roaching the stage where they can | e operated. The Pennsy ivania tun-
 els. which were the first to be under aken, will probably be the last to be | finished mainly because they have to | e built to accommodate heavier cars | nd trains than the other routes It | will probably be two years before the | railroad will open its ew route to and from the west to ublic traffic.