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Show I The Market and the Mirier A few specialties have maintained activity in the commercial and industrial stock market though trading has been rather quiet on the whole. In a number of instances Utah Sugar preferred pre-ferred has been handed out at from $10.10 to $10.15 I a share, and it is in demand at $10.05. The com- ! mon variety of the same stock is weaker and was offered at $2.85. Amalgamated Sugar preferred has been selling at par. The demand for bank stocks and bonds seems to be still unsatisfied, some issues being strongly sought after. Among the dividend of the week are Consolidated Wagon, y Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone, 1; Idaho ! Sugar will line up with V2 per cent on Feb. 1. The following quotations showing the condition of the market at the close of business Wednesday afternoon after-noon are furnished by John C. Cutler, Jr.: Bid. ,Asked. . Amalgamated Sugar Co., pfd $ 99 50 $100 0'i Amalgamated Sugar Co., com 180 00 185 00 Beneficial Life Insurance Co 100 00 101 00 Barnes Banking Co., Kaysville... 125 00 130 00 Con. Wagon & Machine Co., pfd. 108 50 109 00 Con. Wagon & Machine Co., com 98 00 100 00 Commercial National Bank 114 00 118 00 Deseret National Bank 292 00 295 00 Deseret Savings Bank 415 00 425 00. Davis County Bank, Farmington 118 00 120 00 First National Bank, Ogden 280 00 285 00 First National Bank, Murray ... 118 00 120 00 Home Fire Insurance Co 168 00 170 00 Lewiston Sugar Co 12 00 13 50 Lehi Com. & Savings Bank 118 00 120 00 National Bank of the Republic... 135 00 140 00 Ogden Savings Bank 195 00 200 00 Provo Com. & Savings Bank 142 00 150 00 Rocky Mt. Bell Tel. Co 94 00 96 00 State Bank of Utah 201 00 203 00 Sanpete & Sevier Sugar Co 9 70 10 00 Sugar City Townsite Co 171 00 173 00 The Utah Sugar Co., pfd 10 10 10 12 The Utah Sugar Co., com 2 75 2 85 The Idaho Sugar Co 11 35 41 40 Thatcher Bros. Banking Co., Log. 125 00 127 00 Utah National Bank 162 00 165 00 Western Idaho Sugar Co 10 00 10 02 Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Co. 190 00,195 00 Z. C. M. 1 176 00 178 00 Western Idaho Sugar Co. options 10 10 10 15 Sanpete & Sevier Sugar Co. opts. 10 10 10 15 BONDS. Church 101 102 Salt Lake City Railroad 101 102 Salt Lake City R. R. 2nd mtg 101 102 Sumptcr Valley Railroad 102 104 Utah County Light & Power Co. . 102 103 MINING EXCHANGE. In everything but ore and bullion settlements and prices the second week of the year shows a gain over the first. The number of shares sold during the week ending Wednesday was 284,348, a gain of 79,205. In value the shares increased from $116,897 to $117,397. At the same time ore and bullion settlements amounted to only $466,900, as against $509,800 for the preceding week. Ten leading shares that could have been bought at the beginning of the week for $13.68 were offered at the close for $13.43. In the pit it was almost a draw battle between the bulls and the bears. Declines in some stocks were counteracted by increases in-creases in others and the trivial loss of 25 cents on the index stocks has less than usual significance. Carisa opened at 22 and closed at 24; Lower Mammoth from 39 went to 42J; Eagle & Blue Bell soared again from $1.85 to $1.91; May Day rose from 12 to 13, and Little Chief from 3J4 to 33. On the other hand, New York slid back from 23J4 to 18; Columbus from $4.50 to $4.40; Little Bell from $4.70 to $4.65; Beck Tunnel from 61 to 50, and Wabash from $1.01 to 95. The most gratifying feature of the market is the sustained sus-tained interest of the public and the ready support sup-port given to every share which makes a meritorious meri-torious showing. BINGHAM. Deeds have been filed transferring the ownership owner-ship of the Winnamuck group to the Ohio Copper company. The final payment was $48,000. A Boston banking house has taken up an option on 50,000 shares of Utah-Apex at $7.50 a share. The Butler-Liberal elected its board of directors this week. The names were selected by the Orem syndicate which recently acquired an option on the control of the stock. From July to January 1 the market value of Boston Consolidated stock increased $8,956,000; Utah Copper gained $7,650.-000; $7,650.-000; Utah Consolidated ,$3,825,000; United States, $7,850,000, and Bingham Consolidated $575,000. Total, $28,865,500. Bingham Consolidated, which has been producing 800 tons a day, is about to increase in-crease the amount to 900 tons. A Boston publication publi-cation asserts that Samuel Newhouse and the American Smelting & Refining company are arranging ar-ranging a combination to be called the International Interna-tional Copper company, which will take over Utah Copper, Boston Consolidated and the Newhouse mines. It was announced in Boston this week that the United States Smelting & Refining & Mining company, capitalized at $75,000,000, would take over the properties of the United States Mining company, exchanging three-quarters of a share of new cumulative preferred stock and a quarter of a share of new common stock, worth $50 at par, for each $25 share of the old company. The company intends to extend its field of activity to all parts of the west and' Mexico. TINTIC. From reports presented to the stockholders of the Lower Mammoth it appears that in one year the debt has been reduced from $20,000 to $15,000. The ore marketed has averaged better than $13 a ton. Uncle Sam directors declared the usual divl-dend divl-dend of 1 cent a share this week. Last week's flH output amounted to 189 cars. Sixty-six cars came jH from the Centennial, 20 from Gemini, 19 from jH Grand Central, 15 from Dragon Iron and 10 each ifl from Black Jack and Mammoth. Good ore is ijl being taken from the Black Jack at depth though most of the output of late has been from the big iron blowout. PARK CITY. Controls on the first shipment from the Odin give about $44 a ton in value. Silver, 49.2 ounces; 'H lead, 11.3 per cent; copper, 2.7 per cent, and gold lH $2. This was simply a trial shipment. A gasoline hoist is to be placed on the St. Louis-Magnolia jaH and the shaft put down 700 feet at once in order to jH prove that the SI. er King has been taking ore from the ground. In the Little Bell a car of ore is being broken down every day. The average per ton is over $100 in lead, silver, gold and copper. The ore body has been cross-cut 15 feet each way from the 700 level, and proves to be continuous. The Comstock has been forced to close down owing to lack of capital with which to prosecute tl development. iH ALL OVER UTAH. !H The Carrie Mack, west of Salt Lake, is down 120 feet and the management is drifting on a .H three-foot ledge of high-grade ore which runs jH from 4 to 800 ounces silver and 40 to 50 per cent lH lead. There is $3,000 in the treasury. Peter Frandsen of Castle Dale, Emery coun-ty, coun-ty, is mining ore from a six-foot vein and hauling it twelve miles to Desert switch for -shipment to the smelters. The rock contains about $60 worth of copper and silver to the ton. In the Utah-Nevada property at Newfoundland a winze sunk from the tunnel level is buried in copper sulphides and the owners are confident that they have a shipping mine. A new body of cinnabar has been found in an incline from the tunnel level at the Sacramento at Mercur. It is about 500 feet from the old quick-. silver deposit which has been earning so much money for Sacramento stockholders. Consolidated Mercur has leased its tailings dump at Manning to the Holdcrman Filter Tank company, which hopes, by its process, to save about $2.25 in gold from each of the 600,000 tons, working at the rate of 300 tons a day. The Albion at Alta has marketed another car jH of ore on which is averaged about $53 a ton. An- jH other lot is waiting for better roads. The discovery of a large body of copper ore is reported in Cache county in the Lucky Star mine above Logan. 1 IH |