Show LIQUIDATION I 5 AND LOW PRICES I II I I Week Neek Closed With a Panic Nar Narrowly Narrowly Averted I S 5 4 BUSINESS WAS VERY HEAVY SALES REACHED BEACHED SHARES AND t The week on the mining exchange closed yesterday with the sale of 4 shares of ot stock for tor 6 The record for the six days das was shares and Monday l witnessed sed the largest days business in lit a long time and with one or 0 two exceptions prices were fairly steady and strong but that condition of ot affairs was not to last Commencing Tuesday a weakening was noticeable and from then until yesterday prices I took such a tumble that it is a matter for congratulation all aU around that a genuine panic was averted A slight change for tor the better was apparent in inthe int the tte t e tone of ot the market Friday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon and yesterdays trading inspired the talent to predict that bottom had been reached The chief feature of ot the slump was In the fact tact that the stocks receiving the hardest blows were those that least de deserved deserved deserved served the treatment Ajax which began at 14 was at the mercy of the bears right up to the close of business yesterday and a de decline decline cline dine of nearly 44 41 cents a share re resulted resulted suited the closing sale having been made at Carisa Canisa opened at and yesterday it touched recovering a little at atthe atthe atthe the close Its record was made In itt 11 the teeth of the declaration of its initial dividend a strong surplus and splendid reports from the mine Consolidated Mercur with its production production tion of ot in gold per month and Its regular re lar dividends of 12 cents per quarter quart r was hammered from to Oaly Vest that sold Monday at was knocked to on Friday when the directors met and declared a dividend of ot 40 cents a share and made madea a statement concerning the condition of the mine and the treasury that was moat mOst reassuring The result was that it went up to 38 yesterday closing 10 cents under that figure Lower Mammoth dropped from to and rallied somewhat yesterday closing at 4 Mammoth though rather Inactive sold as low as and closed at bid on reports that divi dividends were likely to be passed for tor some sometime sometime time May Day which sold as high as on Monday started down the toboggan and was never headed until was reached yesterday From there it rose roseto roseto roseto to and afterwards eased off and closed at Tesora fluctuated and was up and down between 60 cents and 70 cents nearly all week closing at 62 cents Eagle Blue Bell BelI dropped from to but efforts to force Lorce It below that failed It was one of the most stable s in hI the list during d i the he s shaking up Uncle Sam Stin S m also received r cef ed an awful drubbing Monday onda it sold as as high as 1 77 On Thursday it touched t Iud nd theft the began to recover It opened at lit yesterday morning and proved the sensation of ot the day da It rose almost immediately to and then a scram scramble scramble ble among the shorts to cover ensued and the price climbed closing 2 cents lower Jower The change of man management management and declaration of the second dividend coupled with the fact tact that the property is to increase its output most likely accounted for tor the Advance Victor Boss Tweed Ben B n Butler and Star Consolidated weathered the storm in good shape while an effort to knock Yankee was promptly headed off oft by Dr Franklin getting into the buy ing circle The day and week closed on the fol tol following following lowing lown record ecord of sales and final quo quotations quotations quotations I J IBid Bid tAsked Asked I AJax j 1 l Albion r 1 Alice I 40 I Black Jack Ben Butler li 41 Boss BosH Tweed 46 47 11 t Consolidated Mercur 22 Carisa 1194 jj Congor 15 11 Century t Dalton Lark 02 Daly DR lr f r sos Dexter Consolidated 40 J Dalton 03 04 Emerald Em erald 10 0 Eagle Kagle Blue Bell I Golden Eagle 02 os 04 03 os Galena 30 31 Grand Gra d Central r 49 t Horn Silver 1 1 I ingot 1 01 oi on 03 ro S Joe Jb Jl f Bowers 06 OS oe I Kremlin 1 09 Lower Mammoth i Little Chief 10 20 La Reine 1 25 30 I Mammoth 1 Manhattan 00 OO 01 ot I I Martha Washington 04 05 tk i j May Day 1 Northern Light re o 03 oo mOntario Ontario T 1000 10 1150 j g m i k 50 90 30 Richmond Anaconda 27 32 I Sacramento 15 5 19 Silver Shield 01 03 3 Star Consolidated e 33 35 hC i ir South Swansea e 36 50 Sunshine I OS oe 12 r 23 23 Tesora 61 62 United Sunbeam 35 2 38 31 Utah 55 os 65 H Uncle Sam sim 15 1543 West est Morning Glory 05 06 Oo QI Victor 50 iO 4 Yankee Consolidated 50 41 i |