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Show "ELREKA CONSOLIDATED." OTcr.elllng a Stock by 10, 000 Share. The last series of financial pyuinas-tic3 pyuinas-tic3 including ground and lofty tumbling, tum-bling, among those acrobats who arc in membership with the San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board, have been based ou the ups and downs of the Eureka Consolidated stock. The mine which the stock represents is located in the wilds of Nevada, in the midst of a picturesque desert of shifting alkaline sands aud sage-brush, with ponderous rocks rising like exclamation points at the audacity of Colonel Buoll who sought aud i'ouud a mine in liie midst of all the desolation, isoine time since it was sold out to a ujmpauy, which has since worked the aiine with profit. I'he movement in the stock was lir.-t tairly noticeable early in last week. The -.tock had been firm at JIG aud JIT per share, equal at the latter figure to a value of $850,000 for the mine. He-ports He-ports that the mine was looking badly and that the reducing furnaces were not working well were put lu circulation circula-tion and considerable stock was offered. Lt is generally supposed that the chief operators in the " bear" movement were the President of the Company, Gen. G. S. Dodge, W. M. Lent, Al-viuaa Al-viuaa Hay ward, and Ike Bale'man, wiio jointly held nearly all the stock of the mine. Wm. Buiing acicd as managing man-aging broker, aud gave his orders to other brokers to sell. During the pa.-t week about twice the number of shares called lor in the articles of incorporation incorpora-tion of the Company changed hand;, by sales in the board and ou the streoi, aud the stock was knocked djwu to seven and wouldn't go any lower. The ring operators now discovered that they had oversold and that they had disposed of an amount of shares variously va-riously estimated at from ID, 000 to i'O.OoO more than they were possessed of, or than there were in tne mine. Meantime Henry Januing, Consulting Kngineer of the mine, hurried from Salt Lake where he then was to the "Eureka," to see what might bo the trouble. His report announces that the mine was never in a belter condition, condi-tion, nor promising better lor ihe future than at present. During the month the nuances have turned our bullion tothe value of ??oJ,i.l. and the Company has a balance of about $100,000 in bank. These facts, of course, became generally known among operators, and the stock rallied in spue of the most earnest etiorts to keep it down. On Saturday it rallied to tH.oO, at which price it sold ou the street after Board hours. It closed yesterday at 1 1 j , firm, and none cou.d be got at that figure by street dealers after 4 o'clock. In the Board Iiu ld offered AO cents for the dividend for tho current month, but uono.-oeimd inclined to sell. The fituailou is a particularly tin er-ful er-ful one lor the chief operator:-, i h.-y make a bold effort to knock the st a a, and eveu made bets that il would go to So. After overselling lo,'""' or more shares, ihcy find that the sPek is strong at a price above the avt.ra.-c of their siics, and that tlcir rc.-i;s from the mine are vucuur-acnir. it they attempt to lake back tlmr stock during the existing excitement. ' "i-result "i-result in running it up to a hither figure. h ;o-'cin we may state thai Mr. Lent declares that he 1- n -t one el the sellers ; it is tiuly voir:.ii u note William's luck he nvor is in a pool when it tails t-i o.m.t -, as r-posoJ. r-posoJ. The occasion lor the Lea- y m.. - n . consojuent depressi n :a K.irja U-u-s-ilidated Is s'aied to be ;i.c .i.s.rt e n the part of the heavy ow: r- ; 1 : .1-lize .1-lize that they may make t:. ea-h 1 .... nient on a puivluse u-.ii "i I :-.: the "Little Eiiima n.t". - i; i ' t to be one of the r. chest ..v r t... - 1 ' the world. This is. kowit. r. u !. The mine is honied L.-t p : t the " hu'.'.s, say tho -: - !i' : -contrary is l ut a weak f- i-e '. r ring's bad "-is-'O in La ,i -! idate.l. -S' "i iV-i-..., 1 , Hiding gaundck an ,.i.".. jocsiia or castor, cither '-c. I 1 or sione co'or, with p, - |