The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-26
COZ e p q y h R
GET ING d RGER

quantity. thirty and three-fourths
million pounds, being the largest on
record. The gross value Of copper
lore, matte and regulus shipped from
Alaska into the United States in
creased from but $sS,97s in the nine
months ending with March, 1903, to-
$3l6,S15 in the corresponding period
OF 1911 and $S,sS2, $50 in a like per-
fiod Of 1912.
Most Of the copper imported into
and exported from the United States
is in the form Of pigs. ingots, bars.
and plates OF the thirty-one and
One-half million dollars worth Of
copper imported in the nine months
ending with March, twenty-five mill
lion dollars represented the value Of
copper pigs, ingots. etc. two million
matte and regulus, and.four and one
half million ore. OF the eighty-six
million dollars worth Of copper ex-
ported during the same period,
eighty million dollars represented the
value of pigs, ingots. etc, two and
one-half million dollars that of matte
and regulus, and three and one-half
million dollars all other manufac-
tures
The chief sources ofimported cop
per, according to the stated countries
Of origin reported to the Bureau Of
Statistics, are Mexico, Peru, Chile,
Canada, Cuba. Spain, Australia, and
Japan. OF the 2OS million pounds Of
copper pigs. etc. Imported in the nine
months ending with March, eighty
four million pounds were from Mex
leo, thirty-three and one-half million
from Peru, nineteen and three-fourths
from Canada. OF the sixty-two mil
lion pounds Of ore, matte anr regulus
imported from foreign countries in
I the same period, fifteen million pounds
! were from Canada, thirteen million
from Chile, eleven million from Mex
leo, and ten million from Cuba; while
smaller amounts were brought from
Spain and Germany. The heavy i'm
portations of copper into the United
States. which itself produces prac-
tically one-half the copper Of the
world, are due chiefly to the superior
facilities ia the United States for
smelling and refining, the ore being
sent from comparatively nearby coun-
tries. for smelling and that in the
( more advanced form OF manufacturing
being, in most cases, for refining or
with the purpose Of extracting the
precious metals which 1t contains
Europe is the great market for the
copper manufactures exported from
i the United States. OF the 621 million
pounds of copper pigs, ingots, etc.,
exported during the nine months end
ing with March, sos million pounds
went to Europe, as against but twelve
million pounds to Canada and about
one million pounds to all other coun-,
tries, Netherlands heads the list of
countries of stated destination with
1853 million pounds in nine months.
compared with 157 million pounds ex-
ported to Germany, 11S million to
France, and eighty-four million to
the United Kingdom; though probably
a considerable share OF that consigned
to the Netherlands passes. thence to!
other manufacturing countries of Eu-
rope for final use.
The growth in exports of copper,
from less than 100000 in 1882 to.
a probable total of $11O,O00,OOO in the
current fiscal year, has brought this
article to fifth place among the great
export staples of the country. Taking
the ten leading articles, copper manu-
features rank fifth, the relative stand
ing in the eight months returns, the
latest available figures being: raw
cotton, 4S5 million dollars; iron and
steel, 164 million; meat and dairy
products, 1O5 million; breadstuffs, SO
million; cooper manufactures. al
million; mineral, oil, refined, 65 mil
lion; wood manufactures, IS million;
leather and manufactures, 80 million;
coal and coke, So million; and cotton
manufactures, 80 million dollars.