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Show Mining Stocks and Stock Brokers. Brok-ers. In no respect has the blockade of the U; P. R. R. had a more depressing de-pressing effect than upon sales of mining min-ing property. It has almost entirely embargoed transactions in mines, rough-locking even the consummation of sales, the negotiation of which had sufficiently progressed to be considered as certain to be made. "The grass is mighty short" with the middle men; the storm won't remit its furor lone enough to allow remittances to come through; bondees are boaded in snow drift?; funds to develop mines are ice packed on the the plains; and with many of our commission men speculating specu-lating for a lucky stroke of lightning, stamps have gone glimmering. Counterfeit Coun-terfeit fractional currency would currently cur-rently pass here now, the receiver being satisfied with a semblance of the reality and loth to scrutinize closely for fear that examination might detect a bogus stamp. "Tight times" is the stereotyped ejaculation that follows next after the ordinary morning's salutation salu-tation when acquaintances meet. It is a sort of deprecatory expression, which being interpreted means, "Don't ask me; I have not got a cent." However, this style of anticipating and avoiding a request for a loan is aeldom the expression ex-pression of a disinclination to accommodate, accommo-date, but it is an unwilling coufesston of impeeuniosity. Stinginess is not a characteristic of miners and dealers in mines. They have, nearly all of them, alternated between penury and plenty; to-day shivering under the flimsy covering cov-ering of a dilapidated wickyup, and tomorrow to-morrow gathering golden apples in an Aladdin's cave. The business begets extravagance, and extravagance breeds generosity, and hence ye honest miner is generally open-hearted and handed. Full handed our miners and commission men circulate stamps mitrailleuse fashion. All businesses are benefited by this rotatory distribution dis-tribution of greenbacks, and this distribution is generally most lavish during the holidays. And yet, (confound (con-found the luck) hero we are between Christmas and New Year with a long and tight blockade of snow between us and the source of supply of greenback provender. Well, they are making the best of it, and nightly endeavoring to dance away cogitation over their ill luck. Balls are the tho order of the day, but they are tame 'Tis the stamps that put life and metal in the heels of the devotees to Terpsichore. |