Bisbee daily review., 1921-11-06

are being helu by retailers at prices
that are prohibitive, compared to sim
liar articles of other metals OF mate !,
rails. one outlet for the copper flow ,
IS clogged. and that surely is q mat
ter of concern to the copper mining
interests. The same argument applies
to copper and copper products in 9TH
er fields. 1t has been said that in
small articles copper and brass pass
| through too many hands, resulting in
I, an abnormal price to the consumer.
| If this is the case it must be correct
| ed, will, | am sure, be corrected be-
,fore the cooperative effort now I'M
| der way to stimulate the use OF cop
| per products has progressed very far
| My reference to small articles of
! copper and brass may be considered
by some as trivial, considering the
vast quantities of the metals that are
used in building, electricity, ships,
etc. But when we list the hundreds
of different articles into which cop
| per finds its way, either as copper,
brass or bronze, we find that each one
accounts for very large annual con-
sumption of metal. Take pins for in
stance. AS far back as 1914, the pin
industry alone absorbed something
like a million and half pounds OF
copper year. Today believe it &C
counts for more than two million
pounds. Add to the consumption III
pins, the consumption in hinges, IN
door knobs, in key hole protectors, in
drawer handles and in scores of 9TH
er small articles, both useful and orna
mental, and you get a staggering total.
= In a period when American industries
are forced to do all in their power to
:, stimulate their home markets, IL
would be Grass folly to Ignore such
things.
i Is Best of All Metals
Ii the miner of copper ana the fab
4 ricator of5copper and brass are to FOL
low through" it must be by co-opera-
tive effort. There has S--sJr.unateiy
Ebeen too little OF this in the past.
, Through the Copper and Brass Re-
search Association, which recently
was formed, there has been brought
about cohesion of the producing
and fabrfcating interests, which we
: feel sure will in time include the man.
| ufacturers of articles of copper and
: its alloys, the jobbers in copper pro-
: ducts and indirectly those retailers,
! large and small, who deal directly
with the ultimate consumer.
: We who know copper feel that it is
( the peer of all commercial metals,
: that it has qualities not possessed, by
l other metals and that through sheer
5 merit it will in time find its way
back to the many fields it occupied
t before the war.
|
= ed? What other metal has such re
!, sistance to corrosion? What othel
t metal gives such service or has such
4 long life? What other metal has sucl
e salvage value? What other meta
e is comparable to it in beauty?
/ Architects know all these thing:
: about copper. So do builders, ant
S plumbers, too as a rule. Also the,
/ know that in building enterprise:
+ copper and brass, while perhap.
e slightly increasing budget at the gu
e set, work an ultimate saving to The
o investor. In a recer: number of tbt
e Mining and Scientific Press 1 rea,
5. an article, the writer of which some
l. what cynically asserts that 'wha
n the copper industry needs is an alarm
: clock" in which this statement il
made:
NO we'll informed person question
the superiority of copper and bras
for great many of the uses for whic
substitutes are now being employed
the manufacturers of automobile
know this and the architects an
builders know it."
Must Protect Products
All of this being true, which
doubtless is, We Of the copper an
brass industries are forced to the CO
clusion that one of our neglects of tn
past has been public education; fai
ure to enlighten the ultimate consun
er. And SO among other things W
have embarked on a campaign of et
ucation, the details of which are bein
directed by the newly formed Asst
citation in connection with its wor
of technical research.
Briefly expressed the task befor
us is to protect copper and cope
products in those industries like elet
tricitS, where they already are firml
entrenched. to rehabilitate them i
industries where they have been pal
tally supplanted by substitutes as
result of the war, and to be constant
on the alert for new uses for the meta
and its alloys.
have purposaly refrained from bu
dening this article with statistics {
copper production and copper prices
and i have avoidNd technical term
and references, believing that til
problems of copper just now have t
do with plain, everyday, common
sense methods of stimulating sales i
the domestic market. We want to Sc
more copper and brass. We can onl
accomplish this by getting the peopl
to buy more of our products. The
will only increase their purchases
they are convinced that it is to the
advantage, and profit to do so, and OF
job is to show them that it is.
This we purpose doing in part
educational methods, and we feel tina
we are particularly fortunately place
in that in exploiting the merits of co
nd l. A