Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-24
WAGES MAY RETURN ID
 OLD SCALE
Price of Copper for Month of January Will Mount Above I Thirteen Cents. Forces May Increase
THREE MINES HAVE
 DECLARED MORE WAGE
Increases in Working Force Slower to Come Than Are Wage Readjustments- Gen. Manager French Optimistic

Developments in the copper world during the week past have come thick and fast and have been more than promising for better times during the remainder Of the year Since the first of the year in fact the constant strides forward Of the red metal and Of mines and mining con have pointed out a road Co striking diious iu the United States. and es- peciauy in this district and state have been more than gratifying, and increases in mme operations. From a general suT ny of the market and demand for copper and from a sum mary Of events Of the past week cs. pecially. two certain facts seem more than justified First. a return Co the old wage scale is apparently at hand and seCond. a time when production and uIth it number Of employees will be materially i'm creased Is Just small distance be hind the first increase in daily wag es.
 old Dominion at Globe. a Phelps Dodge interest Miami and Inspira- ton, at Miami, have all announced that on the one condition that cop. per remains above the thirteen cent average for the month of January they will make effective on the first day of February the wage scale which was in general use at the time Of the outbreak of war and of curtailment These are the only mines in the state which have au- nounced their intention Of increasing wages.
 However it is highly probable that the wage scale in the Copper Queen. Calumet and Arizona and sHattuck will be increased at the same time This is a fair surmise if not a fore gone conclusion since in the past none Of the Warren District mines have Jagged in meeting the wage scale as the sliding scale Of copper price +as justified. official state4 ment of proposed increase was lack ing yesterday, but according to the statement of General Manager French Of the Copper Queen inter ests al Douglas. wage increase is un. der discussion and may be reported !. the copper situation looks brighter and that he is sure wage readjupst- ment win follow in the wake of cop per readiusment
 Increase Of forces in the local mines as we'll as in other mines of the state and southwest are farther away now than the readiustment of wages. That the price of copper is kept up in somewhat the same man. ner as is the price of wheat. by con servation of output and by keeping the supply on the market at a low point, is the statement of oerators. While the demand has increased some in the past few weeks. it has not ben SO great as to warrant Iarg. CT production. especially by the lo- cal plants which have been storing some of their output ever since the curtailment However as the de- mand increases and the supply visi- ble is eaten up, small increases may be made. and time when large ad. ditious to the working forces may be made is even now thought to be in sight.
 January is the first month since August when the price of copper will average above thirteen cents. Opening the month che price ranged from 1925 to l25O. On January 6. however the price went to 13, and the next day it was quoted at from 1925 to 1850. Since that time cop per has steadily risen, until early in the week past "A was reached, and Friday l425 to 145O was quoted Indications are that prices will re- main at their present level and a margin is guaranteed which will