Show THE ANNIE LAURIE DEAL Principals in it Begin to Gather Probably a Go The principals in the big deal by which the Annie Laurie group on Gold mountain Is to change hands are beginning be-ginning to gather and there is now every assurance that payments amounting to over 200000 will be checked out tothe shareholders within with-in the next few days The experts on whose findings the deal has been prae tledlly closed are now all In town and the arrival of Peter L Kimberly of Sharon Pa and L C Iluck of Chicago to whom goes the lions share of the proposition Is scheduled for today For thi payment of the moneys Involved In the transaction all arrangements have been made and the balance of the work is practically of a clerical nature It was said yesterday that the purchasers pur-chasers had also decided to accept the holdings of the Snyder Improvement I company that include water rights a mill site and a site for a town that will be known in future by the more euphoneous name of Kimberly but Ibis latter could not be verified It also developed during the day that an Eastern expert representing none other than JV B Hoggin of the Ontario On-tario was upon the ground the information infor-mation Indicating that that multimillionaire multimil-lionaire wanted no less than half the proposition How much foundation there Is for this report could not be learned although several persons were quite sure that the story is correct However the fate of the deal is known to have been decided and on or before the expiration of ten days the drafts Alll be forwarded to all those entitled to share In the purchase money It was wild during the afternoon that Hon Frank J Cannon who promoted It had been permitted to choose between an opportunity to remain with the undertaking un-dertaking as the owner of a big block of slock or to take down the commission commis-sion he has earned but no one pro teased to have any knowledge of what had been decided on by him Silver Shield Shipment The Silver Shield of Eingham reached the njrket yesterday with two carloads of pre from which the management derived de-rived us much ns 33 per ton net and everything indicates that the next lot V 5H l afford a very material increase over this The report of Superintendent Hood that reached the several offices of the company in town yesterday Is a moat gratifying one In It he says the ore body on the 100foot level below the tunnel has continued to grow big jwr and that a sampling of the face showsan average of 1G5 ounces silver ii8 per cent lead ai per cent copper and 320 In gold He has begun the extinction of this class of ore and will have a consignment on the market in a few days The development IB the most important that has taken place in the property since It was acquired by the present owners and the officers of the company feel that no trouble will now be experienced in placing it In the dividend column with the arrival of warm weather Dividend from the Mammoth Information was given out yesterday afternoon that the directors of the aiammoth Mining company will meet tomorrow and post a dividend of 10 < ents a share or 10000 the panic to be hurried to distribution on Saturday It was said that some of the members of the board had urged that a 5cent or 520000 distribution was large enough at this lime but Manager McIntyre favors the larger and it Is believed that it will prevail Treasurer Barnett made the announcement an-nouncement yesterday that the usual dividend or S75CO will be paid by the DalyWest on schedule time the directors di-rectors to meet and post It in the next few hours The meeting will probably prob-ably lake place tomorrow Ore and Bullion Settlements In the ore and bullion market tho days settlements receded to 1SOO divided as follows McCornlck Co Mlngo bullion 13CO gold silver lead and copper ores J200 < T U Jones Co Germanla bullion bul-lion 10900 gold silver lead and copper cop-per ores S1C100 Jn the metal market silver rultd at 69Vi cents an ounce lead at 457 > 6 per hundred pounds and ousting copper at 1J cent a pound The Mining Congress A letter from Irwin Mahon acting secretary of the t Interumu tlotitul i lilt 1mg conprof to lorsU ofllroiH of ihe organization organi-zation reminds them of Uio met that V qiliL 1 Utah Is the only State for which a delegation to the next session at Milwaukee Mil-waukee AVlH has not been named and urgeti It upon them to have Gov Wells designate Jt at once The mineral exhibit ex-hibit during the congress says the writer IH to be a magnificent one while the display of mining machinery will be very extensive In conclusion Mr Mnhon says The holding of this session of our J congress 1C taken advantage of by Utah may be of immense value to tim State and I urge that you take the matter up with all time steal possible Gov Wells will probably respond |