Show TSINBSS1 MINING AND STOCKS 4 The Mercur Declares Its DividendMaking Half a Million to Date J WORKING THE AURORA y Another Big Piece of Gold Float Found in Horse da Heaven i FINE COPPER AT LA PLATA Revival of Interest in Mining in This Rich Camp Discovered Xly Accident TJie Stock Exclinnsre Morcnr Advances RapIdly Rap-Idly Tintic Milling District VarU Patriot Jottln MCTCIIP Mercury Ante The Grow Mining Com paMy TJie Silver Bo vr Bade From the Dexter Orr Impressed With > > d the Northern JOIjrlit Minnfnctur t inff Cyanide Reservoir Surveys Approved nidi eebc Ore The tVinnaxn tick Strike Conlirmed The SenreJilIslit ami Bullion Silver nnd Lead Mining Notes I tuitl 1erHouals I f it The directors of the Mercur Mining company met yesterday afternoon and declared dividend No 20 of 121h cents i a share or 25OuO payaible September 3 20 This dividend will bring the total paid by the company to date up to the handsome hand-some sum ol half a million dollars and r in the workings of this property there ore at least five millions more in ore blocked out and in sight For good and sufficient reasons the Mercur company has passed two or three dividends during the past ten r months bat The Herald is assured by l the management that from now on unless un-less something unforeseen happens regular reg-ular monthly dividends will be paid which assertion should give strength o > the stock and cause it to advance to f the figures an which it was held four months aO The Mercur company after paying for new and valuable ground two new hoists and other improvements is now out of debt and there is every reason to believe thait there is now fair sailing ahead as recent developments have ex nosed large bodies of fine rich milling ore and the mill Is running smoothly and with most satisfactory results One of the directors cif the company in speaMng esterday of the outlook U for the mine said that it was fortun mne sa ate that they did not sell the property few for the sum a yes ago meagre i of 350000 This deal was nearly consummated bur the parties failed to connect and now the mine is worth it millions and f it wil take more than a sons t get it TIE STOCK EXOHiAJVGE Mcrciir Advances lthPldIYUtLh in Goo I Beit mi Considerable excitement was caused in the pit of the stock exchange yesterday yes-terday over the rapid advance made by Mercur stock which hei jumped during the w ° e < i fron 5 50 to t a hundred k chares chansrug htnds during the call at the latter flsve Utah was atfu 1i good demand at regulation ciuo ailous and nhe I sale of LOU shares was r rdj a I1 The balance of the stocks remained about stationary ar < i tti thee the S market was weak and flat I Northern IAffA however J elopE some strength and was in active demand de-mand at 35 cenT offered a 4o and even at these figures there is but little lit-tle of this stock on the marker I Dalton was sacrificed at a ridiculously ridicu-lously low figure and is being taken InS in-S by those who have the key to the combination com-bination I > S The governing board of the exchange will hold its regular monthly meeting next Monday September 7 at 4 p m The transactions or the day were as follows SALES OF STOCK I 100 Mercur at 6 lfercur a 500 Utah at 14y II S 3000 Dalton at 34 < ents Total sales 3600 shares I The closing Quotations were as lol I lows S 1 > lowsCALL CA OF LISTED STOCKS i I r i L tne or Stocks I t S 1 S C I E j L I Anchor II 1 7 1130 Alliance I 1 50 BullionBeck J I 60 700 CentennialEureka J 55 0 j Ki 50 Diy West I I 30 Daiton and Lark 1 I 1 50 Eagle J u EastGolden Gate I 12 Galena J 1 155 I i 150 Geyser 1 1 120 Four Aces I 15 i 19 Horn Silver 150 I I 200 Herschel I 10 Mercur COO Gzu Mammoth 225 I 255 l > Ontario ll1 1 0 i 1 5 Overland 1 ro Sioux Consolidated j i 70 i 93 Silver King 11C 1 5 1190 Sunshine i ISO 250 Utah i 147Y 4i CALL OF UNLISTED STOCKS I t same of Btock r I w < SS I IJ J n tanse 1 1 75 10 Emerald r 1 6 1thern LIght 45 Dalton pI 11l Boss Tweed i 20 Began 10 S Richmond and Anaconda 2 I li = I5 70 RAIUC PATRIOT XOTES ore Suspended on the Peck Concentrator Con-centrator For Sixty Days From Morris Dus = 2ldorf the writer learned yesterday that the yeteray that the Oomstock 1 looking fine Samples of the ore were taken to Salt Lake last week by Superintendent Bob Mulhall which assayed high in silver and lead I is thought that enough ore will he out in a few weeks to make a handsome i shipment if the price of silver and 17j cI lead dont go too low to make such shipment profitable The Valeo has been sending down one wagonload of ore daily for the past ten days As a starter for a new mine this i considered fairly good The Woodside was closed down yesterday terday on account of breaking of one of the cogs in the pinionwheel of the holfcting works A new wheel has been ordered from Salt Lake but a it must be cast several days may be required to fill the order t orer Work was entirely suspended on the Peck concentrator this week All the watchmen discharged force except two vas charged The building has been ready for the machinery that never came about four weeks Last week T R Jones general manager for Utah of the Peck company procejy visited the general offices at Chicago to see what could be done in the way of hurrying up the machinery Our readers can judge how much success h had by the order given on his return Discharge Dis-charge all men except iwo watchmen and nail up I is said that the machinery ma-chinery will be ready for shipment in sixty days Two of the three shafts at the Weber Kearns jigging plant at the Silver King have been laid off Fred Flyndt has quit his jigging operations at the Mayflower dump Nearly all the jig gings on Silver creek are disoontinuad James Snedden returned Monday from the American Fork where he has been prospecting since the middle of June He has two claims there on one of which he has driven a tunnel thirtyfive feet He contemplate returning there soon The masonry work on the Silver Kings new boarding house is about all finished The carpenters will begin be-gin work a soon as the lumber is on the ground The cheeks for the Silver Sil-ver Kings monthly dividend of 3 500 will be ready for distribution Sep tember 7 Thursday September 10 il be pay day at the Anchor and Sil ver King mines The Vet Daly ls in full blast once more The new hosing works are working work-ing very satisfactorily Te bins arc being be-ing filled with firstclass ore this week preparatory to resuming shipments in the near future The underground working work-ing force was increased to the number of twentyfive President W C Lyman of the Constellation Con-stellation waS in the city today and examined that property The drift for the vein is now about 160 feet from the shaft It is expected that it will be reached in two hundred feet COPPER AfT LA PI Revival of Interest in the Properties Proper-ties of This Rich Camp The camp of La Plata about twenty or twentyfive miles northeast of Ogden II Og-den which is one of the most promising promis-ing undeveloped districts in the state is attracting considerable attention just I now in mining circles and it i the opinion of experienced mining men f that in this locality some of the richest mines in Utah will yet be found La Plat is one of the most promising promis-ing grassroot camps ever found in the west and at ane time immediately after it discovery was in a most flourishing condition but the of ishing thE greed a grasping railroad corporation soon after af-ter cuse the closing down of the pr during mines and a cessation of the development de-velopment of prospects throughout the district Several years of litigation did not help t boom the camp in the least and although the suits were decided in favor of the mineral clqfonanits sometime I some-time ago it was not until this summer I that active work in the mines there I were resumed resume The Ogden Press nr SDeaJdng of L Pluta says Since the last mention of the La Plata country in these columns lings have been pushing right along there until at present nsvrly every mine and pros poet is being worked and new locations loca-tions are being made nearly every day and the district is fast taking on the air of a lively mining camp II THE SUNDOWN AND LA PLATA Mr Miles has taken a lease on the j I Sundown and La Plata and soon after I I getting things in shape for working I the La PIn t he struck a big vein of I rich copper oxide on the Sundown Asa As-a consequence he dropped the La Plat and has been putting in J his time on the latter He is now sacking the j Sundown copper ore which averages 48 per cent for shipment He expects to I increase the force a fast a the development de-velopment will allow and there is no question but what he has a mighty fine proposition The Sundown is the I original trict or first location of the dis tic NEW STATE GROUP On the same side of the gulch as the Sundown a fine strike of copper oxide I was made last week on the Primrose south of the Sundown on the same side I I of the gulch and this property was at once bought by the New State people i IOn the Isabelle which is also Included i in the New State vein of tho Ne Sbie group a copper I S cop-per oxide has been uncovered which rivals that on the Sundown and the i Primrose and that is also being de I veloped for all i is worth The New I State group now comprises the Reno 21 Rosa Portland Isabelle Nevada I Romeo and Virginia all of which are I located on the copper belt which seems to underlie the south side of the gulch j THE SUNRISE 1 The Sunrise lies north of the sundown Sun-down on the La Plata side of the gulch and like the latter and all the properties proper-ties on that side is a lead proposition I Carpenter Weber and Rich have secured secur-ed control of this mine and are working work-ing it for the velvet They expect to be shipping ore within a week and believe they have a mighty good thing LITIGATION ENDED The senseless litigation between the owners of the La Plata and the Sunrise Sun-rise properties which first brought woe to the camp has been amicably settled and there is now no reason why i should not push steadily ahead to the I front row of winners in the mining industry in-dustry of Utah The Red Jacket property which lies I east of the Sundown and across the gulch consists of four claims and is one of the best and biggest lead l propositions I proposi-tions in the La Plata district or in the I j I I state for that matter The owners are J I getltfing together on a proposition to 1 start operations again and it is exported ex-ported that a force will be set to work next week TIXTIC MIXING DISTRICT Items of Interest Coiled From the ColnnuiH of the Miner The new owners of the Elmer Ray are cleaning out the old shaft and will soon be ready to commence the development I devel-opment of the ground A considerable showing of lead ore I running through the pyrites is made I in the drift started from the bottom of I the Blue Bird shaft at the 225 level I The steam hoist formerly on the Eureka j Eu-reka Consolidated is being erected on i the Opex group this week and a soon as it is in position the work on that a poson wore property greater vigor will be pushed with still S Nicholas and Joseph Treloar have leased the Sioux mine and Dan Mc Leod has made similar arrangements with the Utah This Insures the continuation con-tinuation of the work on both properties proper-ties and a there is large bodies of ore in sight the leasers ought to make a good thing out of them Joseph Dedrich the well known Mammoth contractor left last Monday Mon-day for the Blue mountains to super intend the erection of the Gold Queen mill In conversation wth the Miner coersaton te ma Mr Dedrich spoke in most glow ing terms of that district and predicts for it a great future The Shoebridge Bonanza company has struck a two foot vein ofgx > od ore in the bottom of the old shaft which they have just finished cleaning out A little ore was encountered in the shaft all the way down and the present pres-ent showing looks like a big thing This property will soon be on the shipping ship-ping list A good wagon road is t be built at once from the North Star and Boss Twe into Mammoth and we are advised ad-vised that the contract for same has already been let for 700 This road will have the effect of taking the output out-put from these properties by way of Mammoth which with a good road will be the most convenient point The North Star company is grading out for a new shaft and will commence sinking in a few days The new shait will be a good working double compartment com-partment perpendicular shaft and will tap the ola workings of the mine which were developed by inclines Anew A-new hoist for the North Star is also a certainty In the very near future The new whim was placed in position on the Kappies ground Sunday and hoisting commenced E N Jenkins who is working the property advises us that they have an eight inch streak of fine galena ore and that they will be ready to make carload Jady a two shipment ship-ment in about three weeks The Kap pies ground joins the old Park mine and < s regarded as one o the most promising properties in the Silver City end of the district We are advised that the Grand Central Cen-tral company will at once let a contract con-tract for staking a new well on the Grand Central No 3 millsite which lies northeast of Eureka adjoining the Paxman millsite While the Grand Central company has plenty of water for immediate use they propose to secure enough now by the development of their water rights to guarantee a adequae future supply as their opera tons may require Scarcity of water is causing considerable i consid-erable anxiety both at the Eureka Hill and BullionBeck mills An BulonBek mis average of only about 40 stamps can be run at I the Eureka Hill and it is currently reported re-ported that It will be necessary to layoff lay-off one shift at the Beck although we are unable to positively verify the report re-port Both companies are industriously industrious-ly prospecting at Homansville and we understand a daily improvement i noticeable Manager J W Green of the Buckeye advises us that he has made a new ore strike on the 200 level of that property Assays of the ore show values of 88 ounces silver 65 per cent lead and 13 gold Manager Green also states that he will be able to send out a good shipment ship-ment of highgrade ore in a few days As to the rumor of a contemplated assessment as-sessment on Buckeye stock he states that so < a as he knows no such action is contemplated by the board of directors I direct-ors The shaft on the Boss Tweed is now down 150 feet from the tunnel level 225 feet from the surface The shaft h followed the vein all the way dbwn the vein at the bottom being from three to four feet wide aid have taken out 200 tons of ore which is now on the dump A R Holcomb who is In charge cf the mine states than they will drift on the veto and block out the shipments ore preparatory to commencing regular Jesse Knight advises us that a new tunnel to tap die vein o the Humbug was commenced Wednesday morning j The new tunnel is about 400 feet north of the old one and will be about 500 feet long and will tap the vein 125 feet below the present level In the meantime mean-time the work on the wagon road and the widening o the present tunnel is being pushed a rapidly a possible and it is expected that shipments from the property will commence in two or three weeks Director Ryan of the Ajax company I advises us that the proposed mill for that company is a sure go He states I that they are now engaged in takinG samples o all the different grades and characters of ore in the mine and that different lots aggregating several hundred hun-dred tons will be run through the Sioux mill to determine as t then adaptability adapt-ability to that process of milling The mill run will commence tomorrow Mr Ryan also states that most satisfactory progress is being made in the great SiouxAjax tunnel The extremely low price of lead and the resulting order for closing down the Mingo smelter at Sandy took effect in Tintic this week by the practical shutdown shut-down of the Sioux and Utah mines which took place on Monday Only about ten men are now employed in the two mines and we are advised that ten te-n l will stop running a soon as the run on Ajax ore is completed We are unable to hear of any other companies who propose to follow the exaimpfe of the Sioux and Utah but the fear is gen eral tat others may be forced to dose Shipments from the district for the week axe a follows From the Bullion Beck mine twentyfive carloads ore from the BullionBeck mill five carloads loads concentrates from the Centen nialEureka twelve carloads ore from the Eureka Hill mine four caroads ore from the Eureka Hill mill twelve carloads concentrates from the Gemini four carloads ore from the Ajax ten carloads ore from the Mammoth mine six carloads ore from the Mammoth I mill eleven carloads concentrates from the Utah five carloads ore from the Sioux mill five cartoads concentrates I concen-trates from the Swansea seven carloads car-loads ore from the Four Aces one carload car-load ore from the Dragon Iron mine I I two carloads ore daily I As we go to press we are reliably informed I in-formed that a foot vein of highgrade ore was sitruck in the Blue Bird yesterday yes-terday afternoon The Rue Bird lies in the vicInity of such wellknown producers pro-ducers a the Joe Bowers Butcher Boy Showers and Morning Glory and we have no doubt will develop into a rich regular shipper S DISCOVERED Ittr ACCIDENT A Proiiiisiiisr Prospect Ponnil AVltile Hniitiiisr Chickens John Jones of this city according to his usual custom shouldered his gun one day this week and crossed the valley val-ley into the mountains of West Mountain Moun-tain mining district on his annual chicken hunt Mr Jones met with good sport in the canyons and on the mountain sides but this did not deter him from keeping keep-ing an eye open for anything else he might come acm and in hs perambulations peram-bulations he found what he considered as a very promising piece of float and he at once began to look for the ledge but go where he would he could not find I and at last he resolved to investigate in-vestigate more carefully the spot where he first had picked up the mineral bearing float S This he did and in scraping away the soil with his foot he disclosed an eighteeninch ledge of mineral bearing rock and with stone he broke off i of a I sackful of the ore and brought it with j him to this city I Assays were made of the mineral I yesterday and It was found to carry small values In gold and silver and i while the results f the test did not I i cause any great excitement 1r enthu I i siam they were sufficient to lead to the belief that the ledge would bear prospecting and i i the intention to sink a tenfoot hole to determine if the values will increase with depth The ore is an oxidized iron and is ago a-go looker and although I has probably prob-ably been well leached at the surface i ft < indications point to a good body of ore at no great depth WORKING T AURORA Another Big Piece of Gold Float Fomul in Horse Heaven Joe Moses the wellknown mining operator returned the first of the week from Marysvale where he has been developing valuable mining claims owned own-ed by the Aurora Gold Mining Mill ing company of this city The Aurora group is located in what Is known as Horse Heaven and is a I south extension of the Dalton property Since Mr Moses began operations in the spring he has driven a 100foot tunnel tun-nel on a strong and welldeflnedi vein As work progressed the size of the ledge increased as well a the values and when Mr Mosss left for this city the face of the tunnel was in four feet I of ore that carried average values of 34 ton ounces silver and 1 in gold to the tonThe The officers of the company are highly S pleased over the showing and It is the intention t push work as rapidly as possible as all indications go to show the near presence of a great body of ore in the Aurora prroun Horse Heaven is noted for the rich float found within its environments t For a number of years pieces of float I have been picked up there that were rich in precious metals Five or sis I years ag a piece of float as large as a S mans head was found there that was lousy with gold and a few days ago according ac-cording to Mr Moses a similar chunk was found in a gulch betweenthe Aurora Au-rora and Eagle properties that fairly glistened with the yellow metal and I from which assays were obtainedrang ing from 20000 to 48000 in gold to the ton This float undoubtedly comes from Dalton mountain and it cannot be a great while now before the lodge will be found from whence i came and when this is done Marysvale can boast of one of the richest gold mines in the west The Grow Mining Company For the past month the Grow Mining company has been hard at work in the development of its group of claims in Kessiers canyon in West Mountain mining min-ing district the work being directed In the driving of a incline tunnel in the Rand lode After running thirty feet the tunnel cut I a tenfoot ledge that assays 520 in gold to the ten I is the Intention however to continue the tunnel until the main vein is encountered when it Is expected that greater values will be found The company is employing a force of five men and arrangements are being made to carry on the work all winter Sam Calder and other Salt Lakers are developing a promising property on the Grow ledge about three miles north of Bingham Mercur Mercury Notes The drill Is doing good work on the Moonshine claims below the mill and the outlook is encouraging I The Sacramento on Tuesday last started their men to work by the day having discontinued dis-continued contract work I The party of miners who made a trip to the State Line country returned on I I 1ntr Sunday They report a great deal of I activity i mining in that section The new shaft which was started just I south of the Protective Tariff one of the Brickyard properties Is now down about twentyfive feet and is looking very ver promIsinG The Brickyard main shaft known as the Arab is now down 410 feet they are drifting for that depth the ore at present is very good and is becoming better as they drift in on the vein The Geyser received on Monday last from Silver Bros of Salt Lake a new tailing car This car is much larger than the cars used by the rest of the mines I and Is a very handsome piece of work I was made expressly for the Geyser Ore ami Bullion The ore and bullion receipts yesterday yester-day were as follows Bamberger McMillan Ores 5916 National Bank of the Republic Ajax ores 4000 ores 400 McCorict CoOrs 4500 cyan ides 15320 To R Jones CoOrS 1100 bu lon 5400 Wells Fargo Co Bullion 3460 Silver and Ieul Bar silver was quoted yesterday at 664 cents lead 250 casting copper 10 ½ cents Bank Clearings I The clearings of the associated banks yesterday were 142061 For the same day last year they were 219111 Mining Notes anti Personals Ike Hazelgrove the veteran minuijj man is in from Blngham Mercur stock sold on the streets yesterday yester-day at 510 a share C L Dignowlty left for Marysvale yesterday yes-terday on mining business Simon Bamberger went out to Eureka last night on mining business I Is reported that the Utah Consolidated paid a 2 cent dividend on the first The Geyser company made Its trimonth ly shipment yesterday amounting to 52500 Judge John W Burton president of the Gold Flint Mining company has returned I from his visit east O H Rarely of the Blnsrhami Copper I company left for the est last night on important mining business W S Brown one of the directors of the Mercur Mining company left last nicht for his home in Nebraska The Mackintosh sampler yesterday received re-ceived 25 tons of Horace Greeiey ore 3 tons of Matilda ore and 170 tons of Silver King ore Work is being pushed in the development of the Copper Queen mine ar Dingham I A tunnel is being run on the leT e which now shows four feet of ore aim quartz The outlook for this property is very encouraging I J J Brown and W S Tyler were in from Sunshine yesterday Mr Brown who is interested in the Searchlight group just east of the Sunshine mine on which active development work is being pushed etntes that the outlook is most encourag ing < Judge B B Quinn of Blngham Is reg I istered at the Waiker Judge Quinn says that gingham is almost solid for Bryan and that if the free silver candidate visits Salt Lake during the campaign the miners and business men will turn out en masse to see him I is reported that parties living between be-tween Salt Lake and Ogden have been making experiments of late in the manufacture manu-facture of cyanide of potassium and that they have met with such success in the enterprise that they say that they can sell it to mill men at 2 cents a pound I and make money i E il Jenkins who has a lease and bond en the Silver Bow lode at Silver City which is an extension of firs Four Aces has eight inches of solid ore in the bottom of his 210 foot shaft that will assay 60 percent per-cent lead 250 ounces silver and 1SO in gold to the ton Mr Jenkins is working four men and is putting In a horse whim He will make a shipment of ore within week or two J H Hedges returned yesterday from Egan canyon White Pine county Nevada Ne-vada at which place the North Mountain Mining company of which he is a heavy stockholder and director is the owner of valuable mining ground formerly known as the San Jose mine Mr Hedges states that the lumber for the new cyanide mill I is now in the ground and that the plant will soon be In operation The suit of A N Young of Stockton plaintiff vs the New Tintic Mining and ii r i i Milling company former lessees of the Honorme mine at Stockton defendant was brought before Justice Reynolds at Stockton last Tuesday to recover the value o about 18 cords of wood Judgment Judg-ment was rendered for plaintiff in the sum of 7550 2 attorney fees and costs Attorneys At-torneys Stud and Marks of this city represented the plaintiff Tintic Times The Ogden parties who were mentioned some time ago in these columns as havIng hav-Ing located some ground which looked like free gold In the vicinity of Ogden returned re-turned the other day with some of the rock a rusty quartz Some of this was pounded up and panned up in this office and the result showed a few fine colors The property is now being more thoroughly thor-oughly prospected and the rock will next be assayed Ogden Press Geo H Murray who owns a onefourth interest In the Murray Hill group near Silver City Tintic joining the Yankee Girl on the north has obtained a bond and lease on the other interests and is making arrangements for the thorough development of the property Already he has done some work In prospecting this ground and In the face of an open cut has uncovered six to eight inches of ore that assays 42 per cent lead 4080 ounces silver and 5134 gold to the ton Not long ago The Herald made mention men-tion of the discovery of a rich body of ore in the Wedge mine on Dalton hU in the Marysvale country The find was made near the surface and now a sixteen foot tunnel has disclosed a vein seven or eight Inches in width that carries values of 76 ounces in silver and 5200 in gold to the ton Lyon Sargent and the other owners of the property are well pleased ower over outlook and will continue development de-velopment a rapidly a possible Hon H E Booth returned yesterday from a visit to the Dexter mine at Tus carom Nev The property he says is crora looking better and better as work progresses pro-gresses and the cyanTde plant a id the two Kincaid mills are running in a most satisfactory satis-factory manner A carload of high grade Dexter ore is now e route to this city According to Senator Booth there is considerable con-siderable excitement now over Bull Run district thirty miles north of Tuscarora where several good finds have been made of late J G Logan the efficient superintendent of the Wlnnamuck mine at Bingham confirms con-firms the reported strike In that property on the 200foot level When he came in from the Old Reliable Thursday night a crosscut had been run in six e tad t-ad the footwall had not been encountered encoun-tered The ore carries values of 6 percent per-cent lead 35 ounces silver and from 3 to 54 In gold to the ton In the bottom of the 300foot shaft a threefoot vein has also been encountered that carries a good grade of ore Last year W L Dykes Hank Barnes and Perry Anson located a reservoir site at Mill B in the South Fork of Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood canyon The site was surveyed and a few days ago word was received from the general land office that the f survey had been bp dot fs is on un surveyed ground and the government has just let a contract for the platting of the three townships from the divide at Alta down to Salt Lake valley When the reservoir re-servoir to be constructed by Messrs Dykes Barnes and Anson Is completed it is estimated that it will have a storage 3000 of capacity land sufficient to water 30 acres landWilliam William Orr the expert mill man in the emplo of the McArthurForrest Reduction Reduc-tion company ha completed his labors at the Mercur mill and Is now visiting the leading mining camps of the state before leaving for Denver Last Thursday he was in Bingham today he will take a run to Park City and he may possibly visit Tlntio before turning his face eastward east-ward Before leaving Mereur Mr Orr visited the Northern Light mine on Lion lull and he Informs The Herald that roxt to the Mercur he would rather have district this mine than any other property in the I Qstrlct I |