Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-23
COPPER EXPORTS ARE
 NOT 50 FAVORABLE

Before meeting Of copper produc- err .~ ,a .aA.ac CTS of brass and copper wares a manufacture de i,. ct .n aaaiess on The Unfavorabe stat sticai Position of the Copper and Brass Working Industries of the Ma ton as to Exports. The speech fol lows:
 The HioRufscture Of copper and brass wares iii this country in ac. ecrdanee with what may be termed modern industrial methods. began in the Naugatuck valley durfag the war q the revolution. and from that. tme until ihks day, Ter acre and per 1nit, O. population. the Naugaiuct, valley has ranked first in the tonnage and yaiue of domestic copper aad brass products All the gold and silver mined in oar country for 8 century would not have sufficed for paying the waass Of the hands in the copper and brass works of the country for the past 100 years. Our domestic trade in copper and brass goods has advanced by leaps and bounds until quite recently. when the iecTeas in the purchasing power of an ounce of gold. as com. pared with the years anterior to 1S97. brought about pinching econ cm 'es an,ong millions of consumers Of wares once largely made of cop per and brass for which copper ed and brassed iron and steel sheet metal and iron and steel wire coated with tin. copper or brass have come into use
 Sixty years ago, MT. James, of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co, who was the resident partner in Europe sold Ansonia-made copper and bran1 goods in every market in Great Brit ian, France and Germany. and d Liverpool built up a large business in shipping brass goods to China. To this day, the largest degree O. con sumption of domestic brass that is worked up for export trade .5 in ths works Of clocks, trade that va, begun by Mir. James GO years az; | for the Ansonia Clock company. Do nestle shareholders in copper pro ducing interests account for "A pei cent of the worlds outturn Of copper All but an insignificant fraction Q the copper trade that we have witl foreign lands is in crude copper. II this respect our mskers of iron ant steel and O. cotton and leather good make a much better showing as tr the ratio in trade between Taw ant semi-finished and finished goods. Tn truth is that we producers of coppe
 who are also concerned in the mak ing of copper and brass wares hay
 done next to nothing toward pro
 moting export trade.
 We are seemingly content wit
 making wares for our own country
 which has but 909O0,O00 population
 more .han one-half of whom are fol
 eisn born or the children of foreig
 born parents brought here. as to tn
 loreipn born, to the number of 20 0o0.0O0 since 1890, to work at poorl
 paid occupations that prevent tn
 employees from living on the genel ous scale that was general througf
 out | The country until a few year ago. This thrush of very poor in , migrants has had a bad effect upo the industries that flourished whe the average American wage to m'
 chanies and laborers was much abov , | what it IS today. Now, if some anon
 US should try to promote exports ( . manufactures of copper and brass . lcountries that have the aggregai Iropulation of nine times that of th . United States the result would grea , ly expand the consumption of copDs
 ip our mills"