| Show I cBUSINHSS MINING AND STOCKS Ontario CentennialEure ka and Daly Are in Good Demand JUST AN AVERAGE BAY Wonder Gold Mining Company Incorporated With a Capital of Five Millions REGULAR MERCUR DIVIDEND TwentyFive Thousand Dollars For the Stockholders Operations to Be Commenced on the Diamond Group at Tlntic E Idaho 31 Field Returns From Yesterdays anotations Tins Bank Clearinps Ore and Bullion Re ceiptslatest From tlie Camps BnMncftft Brief sMlnlnpr JJotes and Personals The big stocks had an inning yester fellows and little day along with the did not run up into although the sales the thousands in the number of shares transferred the proceeds of the trans showing on the actions made a good credit side of the bank ledger expectant crowd that It was an eJl gathered in the lobby of the mining exchange yesterday morning but the transactions in comparison with those might be likened to of the day bofore a lull after a storm There seemed to be but little demand for the stocks that headed the list but when CentennialEureka wag called more life and activity there was at once tivity observable The first bid for this stock was 60 but this was gradually gradu-ally raised until the stock was bulled to S6150 No one seemed to have any of this collateral for sale and those who bought last week at 60 are now congratulating themselves as from CentennialEureka > indication every will go to 75 before taking a rest Daly was strong as usual At the opening it was wanted at 623 and offered of-fered at 750 but concessions were made both ways and a sale was finally consummated at 7 Kenneth Donnellan to owe Those who were short on Dal West stock wanted to fill at 615 and a bid of 625 was made for ten shares without with-out success It was offered in lots of a hundred however at this figure without any takers and Geyser was inactive with Buyer seller a long ways apart It was expected that there would be considerable activity in Mercur stocks but the call closed without a sale Sellers Sel-lers stood firm for an advance The bidding was below yesterdays figures but with the addition of the expected dividend which Is payable on the 20th be price offered was equal to the last quotations made When Ontario was called Donnellan and Woolley charged each other furiously furi-ously The battle was a long one and the latter held on for some time but in the end a draw was declared and fifty shares changed hands at 1075 Don nellan to Woolley At the opening call of Sunshine it appeared as if the stock had taken a bracer with an oyster chaser but under un-der the charge of the bears it weak shares changed ned and a hundred hands at yesterdays figures Hill to Sheets Little Pittsburg was the favorite among the unlisted stocks but at de dining figures It opened at yesterdays yester-days closing quotations but at the close it had been beared down to t = 4 cents whon there was a scramble for the stock but when Airis offered to sell 10000 shares at this price the lights went out and every broker whoa who-a mhute before was clamorous for Little Pittsburg at this figure recalled their bids Dalton arne up smiling after yesterdays yester-days knockout and the expected decline de-cline in this stock failed to materialize material-ize Woolley who beared this stock so persistently the day before had nothing to say and after tossing a few shares about for a round or two the brokers took courage and a few thousand changed hands at advancing figures Jforgan of Hardscrabble was a trifle weak and was offered as low as 65 cents while the highesb bid was only 40 cents Rover was inactive at falling quotations quota-tions After the call it was announced that Pesident Donnellan had appointed Messrs AlrSs Leonard Pendergast and Holmes as a committee to solicit funds for the defraying of the expenses of Judge E F Colborns trip to the opening open-ing of the New York mining exchange Already about 90 have been subscribed lor this purpose The transactions of the day were as follows SALES i 100 Daly at 7 50 Ontario at 1075 100 Sunshine at 350 3000 Little Pittsburg at 1 cents 5000 Little Plttsburg at 1 4 cents 200 altonnL5 cents 3000 Dalton at 51cents I 1000 Dalton at 5 cents LISTED STOCKS td ti r o a I Q Q j I Names of Stocks tII tj > 2 tjCo t > tno no Anchor iiio 1 Ajax 45 Alliance II 60 1 75 Annie ro Bullion Beck I Centennial Eureka 16150 Daly 1 700 700 100 Daly Vest 615 65 Eureka Hill East Golden Gate 4 1 5a j 65 Geyser 1 105 1 > > Golden Gate 1 I Gemini I Horn Silver 1 2 J5 lercur 1 s 740 Mammoth 1 142 l 155 Marion 1 Ontario 1107 I 10j i 50 Old Jordan 1 1 Sioux COhllldated Silver King 11 I 2 15 2 Sunshine 1 350 1 35 I 10 Utah 1 110 Totlsaes 1 150 UNLISTED STOCKS t m I t a U r 2ame at Stocks > a 9 c p I I Little Pittsburg 1 0111 01180 Dalton 1 01 05 60 Morn Harscrabble 40 I 6 Morgan Pak City 1 40 t 4n2 Totro 1 0241 0 I Eagle I 4Q Gas 1 10l 1 1 Old Fred 40 Roe Fre 1 70 I i5 Segregated G 0 Soregatcd I Bogan 1 1 W Richmond Anacndal 011 I Bullion B T Co1 0 I Total sales 110 I |