Show FINANCE AND MINING A Good Showing for the Past Six Months THE NEW BANKRUPTCY BILL Ore and Bclllon Receipts C 31 I Dividend Bidden Treasure General Arepresentative of TnEHERALD called at Z 0 SI I yesterday to learn what he might of the approaching meeting of the stockholders and the Secretarys report of the past six months business Mr Webber stated that it was too soon as yet to furnish any figures His report re-port bad been accepted by the directors and would go before the semiannual meeting on April 5th It may be accepted as a foregone conclusion I suppose that the usual dividend will be declared 1 inquired the reporter Oh yes there is no question as to that was tse reply Which is lie best season forZCM I the first or the last half of the year 1 There is not much difference usually the latter half which we are now completing is the heavier owing mainly to the demand for clothing Our trade for thelast six months I can say has been somewhat better than for the preceding six months and somewhat of an increase also over the corresponding correspond-ing period last year Frank Armstrong whose pioneer flouring mills probably handle more wheat than any other similar institution in the Territory said to a reporter yesterday yes-terday I The interview with Mr Shelby in todays HERALD ought to be cheerful intelligence to the farmers farm-ers of the Territory I think it no exaggeration to say that such a step ought to make a lively movement inprices in the country districts Bfadstrects says of the proposed bankruptcy law The House committee commit-tee on the judiciary which has had the Lowell Bankruptcy bill under consideration considera-tion for some time has almost completed com-pleted its work upon that measure and it is announced that the bill will be reported re-ported nexbweek Anumber of amendments amend-ments have been made to the bill in committee chiefly in the interest of debtors Among the changes to be noticed is the striking out of the clause providing for the placing in involuntary bankruptcy of a debtor whose commercial com-mercial paper is thirty days past due A strong effort was made by the friends of the bill to have this retained The bill has been somewhat weakened by these changes but that perhaps was to be looked for in view of the temper prevailing in Congress It is to be hoped that the bill will now be pressed with vigor to a passage Ore < < and Bnlllon The receipts ore and bullion at the various banks in this city for the weekending week-ending Saturday March 20th 1886 amounted to 13044450 against 183 96978 for the week previous They were distributed as follows By McCornick Co Hananer bullion 1361000 Silver and lead ores 1513000 Pascoe bullion 135000 Stormont bars 211000 Total 3220000 S By Wells Fargo < Co Ores a 1704600 Fine bars 17490tO Base bullion 1702000 Total in 1556 00 By the Union National 25 bars Alice i bullion 2621755 By T li Jones J Co I 6 cars Germania 1593357 Silver and lead ores 450247 Total 2044104 Total shipments for week18044459 The Weeks Output The base metal output during the past week consisted of Pounds 24 cars n 000294 Bidden Treasure This once famous property which was shut down not so much on account of any petering of the vein or low grade of the ore as on account of high salaried officers and expensive methods of miningis in the hands of Talbot ti Liddeli who are working it under a lease Until recently therehave been ten or twelv men at work on the mine and 200 tons of ore per month averag lug about 30 per ton could beturned out The present condition of the roads however is such that the force has been temporarily reduced We shall be very glad to note the Treasure in the list of regular producers once more and particularly so torecord that the lessees arc working it at a profit Alice One dollar and sixty cents is the last quotation recorded Apex It is an open secret that there has been sOme sort of a rich find in this property and as a consequence the officials are more reticent and the stock scarcer to obtain hold ofthan ever No shipments are reported all the work being development |