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Show alougsido the findcljss. C) a uide plaut which operates on the commission about April 15. Galena A representative of the Fairbanks, Morse company, the builders of one of, the beet types o gasoline engines, is at Fish Spring to superintend the inauguration of P. hoist, and the air the new, . compressor. It is expected that with5ILVER. if a record of the past two months and in a short time the Galena will again thf week: for Quotation does not advance, the shares being be on the market with heavy consilver-lea- t held around $8.50, signments of high grade Northern Light, a 20 cent proposi-tio- n ore9. at the opening, jumped out of Northern Light Mr. Frank Hines Highest (covering a HrUxl of twelve year) $1.19, AugtNt 19, 1MM). Lowest, 514, Septem- the reach of the brokers in rapid has ber 1, DV7. resigned the superinteudency o leaps, and at the close was eagerly the mines, and Mr. R. G. Legg, sought for at .'ll cents, some lots be- familiarly known as Charlie is apLEAD. The metal unchanged and still quoted ing takeu in at that figure. atfcUO. pointed to succeed him. As between is Sacramento one the of strong Frank and Charlie it is consideret Record Prices. a period of twelve year) features of the local market. The (covering Highest both having 1 as horse and horse, 1 in October and November 1N90. Lowest, shares are better than 42 cents, and been educated in the same school of $2.50, September 5, 190. give every evidence of a further ad- mines. The week brings some surprises to vance, due to an enviable condition Bingham Condition of roads is so the talent. Stocks that were strong of affairs at both mine and mill, the bad that ore hauling by wagon to are down and some that were in the latter eularg-men- t of course under being railroad is seriously interrupted, in dumps are up, and only the standwithout interrupting the work spite of which it is believed that bys keep the even tenor of their way. of leaching. March dividend of 0 March will show an output euual to, It would have been a fine week for the on the 3l6t. Swansea and South or better than that of February, when wildcat, had he known things were Swansea both hold their relative posithe tonnage of the camp was 5.536 coming his way, but he didnt and he tions, and both securities did some tons. Highland Boy, having filled cuts no ice in the transactions. business in the week, its mouths contract at the Germania Ajix is stationary and is doing no has suspended shipments business, the same prices as last week W. Seward Webb An exchange smelter, until the roads will give better chance being quoted. Anchor is in the same having stated that the gertleraan is for transportation, and other com Bullion-Becis wanted said to have cstegory. heavily invested in at $6, but the stock is held higher ; in mining properties near Marysvale pauies are following suit. Mercur. Annual report for year some quarters a dividend is expected several years ago, for the benefit of this month but the companys officers the curious mining public, it is here ending January 10, 1898, shows cash refuse to declare it in advance. stated that the property in which the on baud $178,972.10 and other reCentennial Eureka keeps its distinguished magnate put his dollars sources which bring total up to strength, and though no business is is the Crystal, with which Geo. M. $5,057,169.30, against which, aside being done in the shares there is a Scott is identified, and which com- from the capital stock, are liabilities strong disposition to invest. A small pany recently had its employes wait- amounting to $57,169.30. Receipts for the year were $766,704.30, of block of Chloride Point sold at 67 ing for their pay. which $487,033.66 were for bullion, cents in the week, but the shares are Four Aces Officers of the comand disbursements were $587,732.20. held too closely to admit of much state that the recent disclosure pany The tonnage milled in the year was trading; closing bids were strong, of silver-lea- d ore is improving as or $1.50 with the stock held higher than ever and drifting are continued, and 87,413 yielding $5.57 per ton, depth less than in the preceding year, in its history. is now in sight to warthat enough which is explained by the fact that Daly can be regarded as a deald rant and shipping. extracting GO cents. Daly an upper vein was discovered, carryduck, bids being The states Chance Tribune Last West is wanted badly, and while best ing lower values, but still sufficient mill will that the probably begin to admit of a profit, and that much bids posted are but $4, the stock is known to have passed in the week at operations this week, apparently en- ore was mined from the lower vein of the fact that the that had been left in the $5.75. Dalton can be had in carload tirely ignorant operations of for mill has in been commission of low was and the previous years lots at one cent, while a half cent betAverage cost of mining for ter is about'the valuation purchasers past seven weeks, and that several grade. the car-lothave been sent to the smelt- 86 year was $1.37 and for milling, is Dexter Dalton and on Lark. put cents. paid out in ers. Two Wilfley tables are being dividends inCompany talto dollar down a the and the period covered, selling to in treat the these but and slimes, total dividends put $311,000, to which is see ent watching paid to way it to amount $886, 000. will go after assessment becomes de were delivered at the mill before the January 1st, 1898, roads became impassable, and are linquent. stock this now being set up. Four Aces is a i 50-H- i 1 1 $5,-00- k ! s , healthy week and is around 8 cents, selling at that figure and declining anything under at the close. Geyser-Mariois a trifle above a dollar. Its March dividend was paid yesterday, and amounted to $6,000. Horn Silver de dares a dividend of 5 cents per share for the first quarter, but though the shares are doing active business in New York there is no movement here. Mammoth is the surprise of the week. Selling at the opening at $2.15, it declined, though no one Treasure Hill This property at Tintic, of which F. B. Cook is general manager, is putting regular lots of iron on the market, the side values of silver and gold being an important GENERAL . . item in the companys revenues. A INSURANCE. are Consignments rapidly nearing the figure of a car a day. Niagara The chimney of silver-leaore that was cut in this Bingham MINING PLANTS property some months ago, holds out A SPECIALTY. . as it is drifted upon and shipments keep up to about 40 tons per day. seemed to know why, sold below $2, Already over 2,000 tons of smelting and at the close was offered a $1.95 ore have been extracted from the diswith no takers in sight. March divi- covery, in addition to which a large 62 W. SECOND SOUTH ST. dend is payable today. Mercur holds body of milling ore is being exposed TELEPHONE 230. n LITTLE NIGGERS RACE OF .t , Savage Dwarf Who I.lve Near tU Jay of Jinifful. an In archipelago In the Bay of Bengal there exists a race of savage dwarfs. Sailors call them. "little niggers," because the average height of them Is four feet ten Inches, the women reaching a stature of four feet seven Inches. The oddest thing about these little people, says the San Francisco Chronicle, Is that they look like babies all their lives. It Is only lately that these dwarfs of the Andaman islands have known how to build fires. There Is a volcano on one of these Islands, and from thla they have procured fresh supplies of fire when necessary, but they know how lo keep slow, slumbering embers sufficiently alive not to compel them often to visit the volcano. The thing which has excited their curiosity most of anything Introduced by the whites Is the friction match. Formerly the dwarfs of the Andamans were accustomed to murder all strangers who reached their shores. Even now sailors wrecked In the Bay of Bengal would probably be' massacred. It is believed the inveterate hostility of the little niggers arose originally from the cruel practices of the Malays, Burmese and Chinese, who visited the Andamans to get edible birds nests and sea cucumbers, and who used to capture the little natives and sell them for slaves. There are several shades of color among them, ranging from bronze to shiny black. Their hair is extremely frizzled, growing in spiral tufts. It is fine, and seldom becomes more than two or three inches long. Most of the women shave their heads once a week, leaving only two narrow strips of hair from the crown to the nape of the neck. Many of the men do the same, although the style is different. They leave a natch like a skull cap on the crown of their heads. The most remarkable custom of these little the wearing of necklaces of human bones.. When a child dies it is buried, only to be dug up again. The father carries the body to the nearest creek and removes the flesh from the bones with the greatest care, carrying them and the skull back to his hut. The mother, after painting the latter with a yellow pigment, hangs it around her neck. Infants skulls, being fragile, are protected by a covering of string. For a few days a mother will spend all her time stringing the bits of bone into necklaces, to be distributed among her friends as mementoes. These are supposed to ward off disease. Teeth are also strung as necklaces, every native of the Andaman islands wearing a chain of some sort of human bones. people-i- s Cost More Than He's Worth. A dog who has eaten up a farm and a set of buildings has been found in eastern Maine. This dog killed a neighbors sheep. The neighbor offered to call it square if the dog was killed. The dogs master refused to agree to this, and a lawsuit came next. To pay the costs and damages assessed by the court the owner of the dog had to mortgage his farm for $100. The mortgage had a bigger appetite than the dog, and soon his farm was gone and the owner had to move away. The dog is now dead. d Do Not Want Sunday Work By order of the city council of Toronto, Canada, a ballot was taken among the street railway employes to ascertain their sentiment on the question of running the street cars on Sunday, Two hundred and fifty men voted. Of these 220 were against Sunday work. |