The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-19
WHY NOT COMPLETE
A COPPER TRUST?
Movement AIong Lines of Steel
Combine for the Copper
Producers.
WOULD PROTECT THIS
INDUSTRY As NEEDED
Big Fellows Would Reap Their
Millions. hut Little Fellow
Would Profit, Too.

In large trade parlanco a community
of interest is a combination to create
demand for supply. In the newspapers
a community Is trust, and forthwith
clubs are raised to smash the trust
Large enterprises of manufacture are
creatures OF evolution Tho modern de-
partment store IS an enlarged country
store which supplies the Uelshbors' NO
cessities. The United states steel cor
poration and the STANDARD Oil company
are the products OF combination OF in
dividual plants, equipped in larger meas
ure 10 supply larger demand.
Now II Is proposed to organize cop
per Community OF interest 10 Increase
the disposal OF manufactured copper and
brass goods II successful il Will follow
the lines OF United steel in creating eN-
port markets aud holding prices firm
and steady. Only large capital can ac-
complish great results and encompass the
markets Of the world A New York
hankcr. IN close touch with the proposed
combination. says:
The low estate Of our exports OF FIN
ishcd copper and brass is highly diSCrcd :
liable. IN ten years We have Increased
cur exports 81 macnlnery 80 per csnt
But IN the exports OF finished copper and
brass "" stand on a lower plane tnan
we old fitiN years Hso-rcckoulng our cH-
ports per unit ~ population. For many
years our copper aud brass mills have
been content with the home markets. In
good times these plants arc usually from
q month 90 three months longer IN max
iGg shipments tN1D Is the rule with Ger
man and British copper and brass mills.
We produce - per cent Gf the world z
copper. and export 10 per cent OF our
copper as raw materials FOR manutac-
turc except the small tOnnages that go
60 Canada in the form Of rods To be
drawn into wire. We ought to be able
under an enlightened policy. To sell TO
fourth uf the copper from mines con-
trollsd by United states shareholders in
the form Of finished manufacture Of cop
per and brass
throughout the boom most Of the eX-
povtcTs who applied 10 our copper and
brsss goods makers for goods were told
that the home markets were more than
cpuld bc taken care OF with any degree
of promptncss In shipments. one Of the
largest shareholders IN the greatest COP
pcr producing company Tn the nation had
10 bring personal influence 10 bear with
makers of brass IN the last boom year In
order TO get the materials Tor making
n million brass lamps Tor China under
a contract worked up by the Shanghai
agents for AN American petroleum indus
try. Many other instances OF the kind
could be adduced. II the project is sue
for American manufacturers Of copper
and brass under such wise methods FOR
building up foreign and home markets
as arc cXcmplifed by our most progress
i've manufacturing corporations which
have taken the whole world for tho prov
iDCe Of their selling departments
The small producer Of copper need
have no fears from such combina ton.
The domestic market must improve as
general business reviveS. and whatever
may bc added To- the export trade Will
stimulate production. One thing may be
taken for Srautcd-prices can not reach
much lower level than ut present main
tains. and even slight advance will have
stimulating effect Copper zones are
so diversified and SO large that mining
can not bc "coruered.' and In normal
periods demand will increase. The big
fellows will make barrels Of money. Of
course. but while so doing the prudent
little brothers Will accumulate comfort
able bank accounts.-Paciiic Miner.