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Show TIMELY CAUTION A talus t It el us Sivlu riled iu aimes. New York, 8. Toe Times has a two column article on the coming mining mania. It oiiys tho indications indica-tions are too many and too plain to be mistaken, that the lever ot speculation specu-lation is begiuning in gold and silver mining stocks. The price of seatB in the Mining Stook Board here has risen from $75 to some hundreds. Brokers who never touched this class of paper are now operating extensively exten-sively in it. New mining companies are coming out with displayed adver-, adver-, tiaemeiits in the papers; the names j of men well knowu in politics aro I paraded at toe head oi company prospectuses, Every little exchange shop down town haB its Ireshly writ ten placard announcing that all kinds of mining stocks are buugbl and bjU there; inventors are to be fouud by the dozen who havo a "procoss" by which the metal may ba got out in tbe shortest possible time, and at a nominal cost, and more significant than thia a number of well known stock operators have gune or nre about to start for the weat lor the purpose of buying up mining proper-lies. proper-lies. Old bands at mining business look for a rage of speculation by next fall, and are preparing to make their big stake. At present tbe symptoms of disturbance are confined almost exclusively to bpeculating classes, but if the feeling grows to be a mania, as shrewd observers anticipate, it will influenco for good or evil, and principally prin-cipally tbe latter, hundreds and perhaps per-haps thousands of innocent people who have small accumulations which l bey desire to place out to advantage. |