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Show I The MarKjpt and the Miners. - 1 While the local mining brokers trace nearly all their troubles to the lack of buying orders, the commercial stock brokers are having difficulties of another kind they cannot get the stock to fill many of their orders. A strong demand has been especially noticeable this week. Idaho Sugar, Amalgamated Sugar, Utah Sugar preferred and Consolidated Wagon preferred are in request at advancing figures. Bonds are also being snapped up by investors whenever offered. The divP M season has opened for fair. Z. C. M. I. books have closed for the regular 4 per cent semi-annual and a special 2 per cent extra dividend. Utah Suar has also begun the distribution of $90,000 on its preferred and common stock at the rate of 1 on the preferred and 1J4 on its common stock. The following, the latest quotations, are furnished by John C. Cutler, Jr.: Bid.- Aked. Amalgamated Sugar Co., pfd $1.03 0Q $103 50 Amalgamated Sugar Co., com.... 192 00 196 00 Beneficial Life Insurance Co 101 00 103 00 Barnes Banking Co., Kaysvillc.. 125 00 130 00 Con. Wagon & Machine Co., pfd... 106 00 107 00 Con. Wagon & Machine Co., com. 92 00 96 00 I Commercial National Bank 110 00 115 00 I Dcserct National Bank 290 00 291 00 I Dcserct Savings Bank 355 00 360 00 Davis Co. Bank, Farmington. . . . 117 00 120 00 I First National Bank, Ogden 270 00 280 00 First National Bank, Murray.... 115 00 117 00 Home Fire Insurance Co 165 00 167 00 Lcwiston Sugar Co 15 25 15 50 I Lehi Com. & Savings Bank 119 00 120 00 National Bank of the Republic. 130 00 140 00 Ogden Savings Bank 180 00 190 00 Provo Com. & Savings Bank 142 00 150 00 Rocky Mt. Bell Telephone Co.... 92 00 95 00 State Bank of Utah 166 00 170 00 Sanpete & Sevier Sugar Co 11 20 11 30 Sugar City Townsite Co 170 00 180 00 I The Utah Sugar Co., pfd 10 95 11 10 The Utah Sugar Co., com 6 00 6 10 The Idaho Sugar Co 13 90 13 95 I Thatcher Bros. Banking Co., Log. 122 ,00 125 00 I Utah National Bank 164 00 168 00 I Western Idaho Sugar Co 11 20 11 30 1 Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Co.. 170 00 180 00 1 Z. C. M. 1 170 00 173 00 I Western Idaho Sugar Co., options 11 30 11. 40 I Sanpete & Sevier Sugar Co., opt. 11 50 11 55 1 BONDS. I Church 102 T03 Salt Lake City Railroad 102 103 I Salt Lake City Ry., 2nd mortgage 102 102j Sumptcr Valley Railroad 103 105 Utah County Light & Power Co. 102 103 I MINING EXCHANGE. I Returns from the mining stock market pro- II voke the old question; "Why do the prices of II stocks and the volume of business always pro-el pro-el gress in opposite directions?" Last week when I prices were making a Russian advance the ll amount of trading was performing a Japanese re-II re-II treat. This week conditions have been reversed. II There has been an almost unanimous gain in II the price list, but the number of shares sold, the jl selling value and the ore and bullion settlements I have all fallen away. Ten stocks that could have H been purchased one week ago Thursday for $1.87 II would have brought $2.046 during Wednesday's II ca With the exception of Silver Shield, which II fell from 19 to 17, Joe Bowers, which lost a quarter of a cent, and Butler-Liberal, which stood still, all the active traders have gained strength, Star Consolidated leading with a jump from 9 to 21 cents, closing, on Thusday at 16 cents. . It is suggested that business falls off with every advance in prices because the buyers, accustomed ac-customed to the see-saw course of the market, know that they have only to wait a few days to get in on the ground floor. The explanation is not altogether convincing, for the experience of the past has been that people were most anxious to buy when stocks were advancing. As will be seen by the summary of the state's mining news, there is much to account for the healthy raise in prices, but nothing to explain the small amount of business. busi-ness. During the week ending Wednesday night there were sold .on the local exchange 99,126 shares with a market value of $25,357.25. In the same time the ore and bullion settlements totaled $365,174. BINGHAM. The sensation of the week in this camp was the attempt on Saturday morning to set fire to the workings of the Old Jordan of the United States company. Unknown parties ignited the timbers and the miners wefe driven out by the smoke. A day's work has lost, but the fire was smothered out and the damage was nominal. The perpetrator of the act has not been discovered, and his animus can only be surmised. The Uintah company's tunnel in the Castro group is now in 750 feet, and has penetrated two small fissures. Two hundred feet further on the main ledge should be encountered. Utah-Apex is testing the value of a quantity second-grade material at the Wall mill. First grade to the amount of 100 tons was shipped to the smelter last week and returned 5.54 in copper, $13.20 in gold, 16 ounces silver1 and an excess of 20 per cent iron. Its gold values are at present the highest in camp.-r-Cap-tain Stern has gone east to purchase a new re-verberatory re-verberatory furnace and four roasters for the Yampa smelter. Boston Consolidated is shipping about 250 tons a day. Phoenix tunnel is making about five feet a day with one drilling machine. The Highland Boy company is building a mile flume from the New Haven mine in order to get water for the boilers. New England shipped one car of screenings, one of concentrates and one of crude ore from the Mast vein last week. In drifting north the Utah Consolidated has demonstrated demon-strated the presence of good copper values in the lime for more than 3,000 feet, the mineral occurring oc-curring between the 550 and 600 levels. The New Red Wing is sending to the Wall mill sixty tons of lead and silver ore daily. TINTIC. Drifting is being prosecuted on the 1,400 level of the Black Jack, and when the drift gets under the new ore body the property will come into the market with another shipment of silver and gold ore. A continued improvement in value is reported on the 1,500 level of the Lower Mammoth. Mam-moth. It is said in camp that the Yankee Consolidated Con-solidated mill will have a capacity of 150 tons a day, and will be similar in design to the Uncle Sam mill. Last week's shipments were 129 cars. Centennial shipped 58, Gemini 12 pnd the Eagle 1 & Blue Bell and Victoria each 9. A small body of ; fljfl very rich ore has been found by lesees on the i jff Eureka-Hill, and another carload will soon be Hfl ready for market. The Mammoth is the scene ! UflH of a rich gold strike in hitherto undeveloped --ri- :9fl tory. The assays run from $10 to $400 a tour' : SB! IB The management of the Honerinc tunnel has HH decided to extend the bore 800 feet to the main , BH incline, making the total length 9,500 feet. This BH will result in the draining of territory that has IH recently come into favor and will give access to M the newly developed ore bodies. H , iHH |