Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25
.FRENZIED FINANCE
IN COPPER SHARES
REMARKABLE DECLINE IN
PRICE OF COPPER.
ATTEMP TO CORNER STOCK
Was Unsuccessful and Resulted in
Immediate Suspension of Otto
Heinze & Co., AS Well AS Several
Other Share Holders.

New ork,-The financial troU-
troubles growing out of the rapid de-
cline in the price of United CopPeF
shares following an unsuccessful al
tempt to corner the stock eliminated
in the resignation of the president OF
the Mercantile National Bank by r.
Augustus Heinze and the announce
ment of the suspension Of Otto Heinz
& Company on the stock exchange
While the firms suspension from the
privileges Of the exchange became Ell
fective at once, representatives OF tho
Heinze interest said an assignment
had not been made and that 1t was
hoped to straighten out affairs III Il
short time.
f. Augustus Heinze in his state
ment of resignation said he retired
from the presidency Of the bank III
order to be free to devote ample Time
to the task of rehabiitating his broth
er's firm. w. B. Ridgely, comptroller
of the currency, has been invited t.
become president of the Mere antlie
National Bank, but so far has not
said whether he shall accept.
The troubles resulted directly from
the general unfacorable condition of
the copper market. For months u
has been understood in Wall street
that certain men of copper believed
that less production and the reduction
of pn.es were necessary, United Cop
per is Heinze property and declined
sharply.
Anothr feature of the copper news
was the temporary suspension OF the
State Savings Bank Of Butte, Mon
tana, city which is dependent on the
copper industry.
Amalgamated Copper, which has
been affected along with all the OtheT
copper companies Of the world by the
over production of the metal and
the consequent reduction in price,, A't-
nounces that its quarterly dividend
has been cut to l per cent. A shorE
time age the stock was on an elghE
per cent. per annum basis. Following
the announcement Of the cut IN It's
dividends's rate, the Amalgamateo
Copper Company issued the follow
ing statement:
'The directors of the Amalgamated
Copper Company in arriving at de-
cision to reduce the dividend from So
per share to 81 per share for this
quarter have been governed by the
fact that the copper market has been
for the past few months In most
unsettled condition. The business OF
the manufacturing consumer has been
so depressed that only a small por-
ton of the copper produced has been
sold and that at such decreased
price that necessarily the earnings
realized by the producing companies
have been affected
The statement also says that at this
time the output of the mCII.ramated
mines is about 40 per cent. OF the reg
ular output; that the physical condl-
ton of the mines is the best in their
history and that they have on hand
large stores of refined copper.
Alarming rumors are in circulation
in Wall street to the effect that other
firms than Gross G. Keelburg had
suffered heavily through the opera
tions of Otto Heinze & Co., in United
Copper. -Four other firms were involv
ed, it was said to the extent of about
$1,5OO,0OO.
A statement issued by Gross &
Keelburg alleges that Otto HeiGze &
Co., owes them 100000. Max Nj.
Sehultze, stock exchange member Of
Otto Heinze & Co., was indefinitely
suspended his suspension being an
nounced by secretary of the exchange
in the following notice:
''The president of the exchange de-
cided to suspend Max M. Schultze, 1t
being imperative under the rules, IN
asmucn as he had time and opportu-
nifty to notify the exchange of his IN
solvency and he failed to do SO. The
suspension will stand until he has met
all his obligations and has been re-
instated by the committee on admis-
sions.