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Show The Marf(et and the Mine? What has been said of the local commercial stock and bond market for several weeks past may still be repeated without crossing a "t" or dotting an "i", and the statement will apply to the conditions this week to a nicety. Market quiet; gilt-edged securities closely held and the activity that exists confined chiefly to the sugars. The latter are unfavorably affected by the probability of the passage of the Philippine tariff bill. Consolidated Con-solidated Wagon preferred has recorded a few small sales, and, in isolated cases, small blocks of bonds have found new owners. One new and favorable feature of the market is the relaxation relaxa-tion of the local money rate. Coin of the realm N is fairly easy, individual experiences to the contrary con-trary notwithstanding. The quotations at the close of business Wednesday are given as follows by John C. Cutler, Jr.: ( Bid. Asked. Amalgamated Sugar Co., pfd $ 99 00 $100 00 ' Amalgamated Sugar Co., com.... 175 00 180 00 Beneficial Life Insurance Co....... 100 00 101 00 Barnes Banking Co., Kaysvillc... 125 00 130 00 1 Con. Wagon & Machine Co., pfd. 114 50 115 00 Con. Wagon & Machine Co., com 102 00 105 00 Commercial National Bank 117 00 125 00 Deseret National Bank 292 00 294 00 Descret Savings Bank 425 00 430 00 Davis County Bank, Farmington 115 00 120 00 First National Bank, Ogden 290 00 295 00 First National Bank, Murray 115 00 120 00 Home Fire Insurance Co 173 00 178 00 , Lewiston Sugar Co 13 00 13 10 ! Lehi Com. & Savings Bank 119 00 120 00 , National Bank of the Republic. . . 137 00 142 00 i Ogden Savings Bank 200 00 205 00 Provo Com. & Savings Bank 138 00 142 00 Rocky Mt. Bell Tel. C 91 00 92 00 i State Bank of Utah 200 00 202 00 Sanpete & Sevier Sugar Co 9 40 9 75 Sugar City Townsite Co 160 00165 00 The Utah Sugar Co., pfd 9 95 10 00 The Utah Sugar Co., com 2 70 2 80 ) The Idaho Sugar Co 10 45 10 55 Thatcher Bros. Banking Co., Log. 128 00 130 00 Utah National Bank 158 00 160 00 Western Idaho Sugar Co 9 70 9 80 Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Co. 195 00 200 00 Z. C. M. 1 181 00 185 00 Western Idaho Sugar Co., options 10 05 10 15 Sanpete & Sevier Sugar Co., opts. 10 10 10 15 BONDS. Church I 101541 101 Salt Lake City Railroad I 104J4 10454 Sal6 Lake City R. R. 2nd mtg 101J4 101& . S unpter Valley Railroad 102 I 104 Utah. County Light & Power Co. . 102 104 MINING EXCHANGE. Coppers have held the center of the stage for the past few days, but the Salt Lake exchange has succeeded in keeping up interest in the multi-metalled multi-metalled mines which share with the copper pro- ducers the commercial empire of Utah. The weok which ended Wednesday afternoon opened the previous Thursday with that tired feeling and this dull opening, together with one holiday, make the figures for the week tell a misleading story. On the whole the market has been snappy and responsive to conditions in the field. Shares sold during the five business days numbered 178,441, or 53,629 less than the week before. The value of the securities was $94,461, which is $42,297.76 less than the previous period. Ore and bullion was settled for on all six days and here a gain of $50,605 is noted, the total being $590,805. Taking the ten leading stocks as an index prices have strengthened clear down the line. New York especially has furnished exercise for the speculator's guesser. Little Bell, one of New YorKd neighbors, shared in the general prosperity, advancing from . $3.85 to $4.34. Butler-Liberal went from 13 to 14J; Columbus from $4.73 to $4.75; May Day from 16 to 17; Sir Consolidated from 13 to 14; Carisa from 24$4 to 2 and Beck Tunnel from 54 to 55. The laggards in this procession were Ajax, which declined de-clined from 30 to 29, and Lower Mammoth, which opened at 33J4 and closed at 29. The ten stocks were worth $10.6254 at the beginning and $11.20J4 at the end of the week. BINGHAM. There is reason to believe that the deal consummated con-summated this week, by which F. Augustus Heinze relinquished his Montana copper mines to the Amalgamated interests, will prove of great importance im-portance to Bingham. Because of the secrecy which hangs about the transaction its full import cannot be determined now, but the coppev-wise say that it is the first step toward a consolidation consolida-tion of all the great copper mines of the world, including those of Montana, Utah, Arizona and Michigan. The Guggenheims get the credit for conceiving it, and Heinze, it is predicted, is to be the general manager. Apropos of the foregoing it is announced that an Amalgamated engineer has begun the examination of the Utah Copper property prop-erty at the instance of Samuel Newhouse in order to determine the proper ratio between the shares of that company and of Boston Consolidated and Cactus. The examination will take, probably, three weeks. The consolidation fever seems also to have infected the smaller properties, and the announcement of a merger involving Utah-Apex, Red Wing and Butler-Lib eial is expected every day. President Catrow of the Ohio Copper company started hurriedly for Chicago this week and the trip has given rise to rumors of sales and mergers. A contract has been awarded for the extension of the Copper Belt railroad to the 1 mouth of Ben Hur tunnel on Boston Consolidated 1H ground, a distance of two miies. Grading will be efl finished in sixty days. The streets of the new ' H town of Garfield are being purveyed. A survey I is being made for the 2,000-oot tramway of the jjfl Utah-Apex to the railroad. Work has begun on H the Montezuma, under bond to Peter Porter, et al. H They will sink the vertical shaft to 200 and drift . !H for the ore. A car of ore from the Red Wing ' last week netted the company more than $40 a jJ ALL OVER UTAH. The City Rocks at Alta is now in the list of H shippers and is prepared to furnish two or three iH cars a week to the smelters if the roads remain H open. The Sevier Consolidated at Gold Mountain has H completed its enlarged mill and is now making its jH first run. A large shipment of quicksilver will be made :H from the Sacramento at Mcrcur this week. H The Santa Maria Gold & Copper company, iM which owns ground ten miles north of Ogden, is lM driving a 1,500-foot tunnel to permit the removal H of a vast tonnage of low-grade copper ore already blocked out. ;H |