COPPER - In Buffalo and Pitsburg they are about to establish works for
smelting copper - the material to be obtainrd on Lake Superior. A much better location
for such works would be ib St. Louis. There is a large supply of excellent copper ore
fifty miles from St. Louis and works established here for its manufacture would possess
very great advantages over others that will be compelled to send thousands of moles for
ore. A very large buisness in the manufacture of copper might be sucessfully carried on
at this place. As several of our worth citizens are interested in the Meramec copper
mines, we hope they will adopt means to have the buisness carried on extensively - St
Louis Era