Salt Lake Herald | 1890-11-16 | Page 5 | Lead and Silver

Lead and Silver The arrivals which took place early this week depressed the market and was to be expected to the price at which futures have been selling all along namely 325 530 at which prices important transactions transac-tions took place There is no doubt that consumers are very badly stocked and will of necessity have to enter the market again shortly but are simply waiting to see if prices will give away any further which however is not likely as nothing cheaper can be imported We quote Spanish Span-ish lead at 14 os and English lead at fH 103Messrs Messrs Everett Post of Chicago say The market has been only fairly steady ntSc for future lead and the demand is light spot lead commands somewhat better bet-ter figures a few cars selling at 515 Messrs John Wahl Co of St Louis say Lead is dull and buyers continue to buy from hand to mouth only both spot and November are obtainable and slightly salable at 190 The principal offerings come from speculators Producers are of the opinion that lead has declined rather too rapidly of late and thata reaction is in order for the reason that very little lead is obtainable from first hands Engineering and Mining Journal Silver 101