Show min mining i n g sto stocks c ks fo for r 1909 BY WM H ph D A careful survey of the records of the salt lake stock and mining alining exchange for the year 1909 reveals many things that were not altogether satisfactory while the sales on the exchange were heavier than for any previous year and while the value of the transactions exceeded that of the year before there was a general decline in prices and a shrinkage of values that were exceedingly discouraging to the investor and the speculator the stocks which seem to suffer most were those which were paying large dividends the following table gives a very interesting comparison of prices showing the high prices of january of last year and the low prices of december it will be observed that there are few stocks which show any advance above the prices prevailing early in the year in two cases there is an apparent gain but the assessments levied would if added to the cost show a net loss afi ot 1 P rt 0 1 0 D STOCKS sa 3 11 5 15 01 rd 11 beek tunnel 86 11 A black jack 45 0 06 6 ya bullock 07 01 carisa 50 colorado 3 2 2 A 68 columbus 1 1 0 i crown point 1 2 ah 04 east development 20 0 12 04 grand central 2 85 2 01 3 indian queen 13 0 oa iron blossom 2 6 65 a lower mammoth 30 40 mason valley 60 may day 26 14 mountain lake 37 03 Y t nevada hills 61 new york 05 11 ohio copper prince con 1671 95 silver king coalition sioux con 28 south columbus 59 tintic gintic central 1 14 uncle sam 1 52 40 utah con al M 1 25 1 A 03 by far the greatest colue of business was in tintic gintic stocks in several cases the capitalization w was as sold two or three times the total sales of tintic gintic central were of iron blossom of sioux con or bullock of east gintic tintic development of utah con M al 1 n the following table gives a record of the leading active stocks traded in on the exchange during the year showing the capitalization of the companies the low and high prices for the year and the total number of shares sold it may be stated in passing that teat the high prices prevailed early in the year and the low prices during the last part of f the year there tere is 19 some interest in a comparison of the annual sales on the ex exchange chanke for the last thirteen y years ears it will be noted that there has been a very marked increase from year to year in the amount of business done the following table shows the record by year giving the number of shares sold and the total market value it should be borne in mind however that not until 1903 was a complete record kept of all the transactions the figures before that period are based largely on estimates for the curb trading the year 1901 was a very exciting one 1906 13 1 08 1909 the comparison of the business transacted act d last year with that of the year before is interesting as showing the gradual rise in the amount of business from the early part of 1908 on through a large martof part of the last year the decline coming during the last three months of 1909 indications point to another period of gradual advance the present year is likely to repeat the history of 1908 the dividend record for the past year DIVIDENDS quotations YEARS no par NAME OF COMPANY SALES per shares value low high share date aate total S 1000 ajax T T fa t J 2 1 38 10 8 beck duncon tun con T rj 11 i 89 02 oct act 1907 S bingham amal B 09 25 10 black Blau blackjack kJack jack T 06 45 loo tB ullock T ouy 00 auk au 1 I T q 50 1 16 oi 01 nov 1901 1906 50 cedar talisman ai aman 04 01 0 09 9 20 ccolumbus colorado T 58 68 08 dec 1903 1909 ccolumbus lumbus FCo con L 6 q 20 oct act 1916 jo 10 grown crown point T 04 27 daly judge p q 37 aar apr A 1907 7 io 10 dra dragon on iron T 10 47 10 east crown point T 01 opa ug 10 kast east tintic con s T 00 10 10 east tin devel T 04 9 23 3 1430 au ely colomet Co lumet grand contra central r T I 1 4 76 6 ui 04 dec aj fwu ibex I 1 02 2 13 10 indian queen pr fr 02 13 io 10 inyo 04 11 MI 60 10 iron blossom T 58 08 dec 1909 iron king T 12 26 loo keystone p 20 3 31 1 50 king david 40 50 king william T 12 42 little bell p 2 1883 q 05 dec ia 1909 69 10 lettle chief T 15 65 14 1 1843 t lower mam T 1 19 55 0 07 dept 85 25 may day T 14 29 MOO 01 S h sept 1908 1 mason valley 1 1 WA 1 10 mineral flat A 00 VS 16 mountain lake L 03 47 nevada hills H 61 10 dec 1907 anew york P 02 18 1000 copper B R 4 1 10 Op hongo T 15 25 J 00 pioche metals 28 10 T 04 01 lP prince rince con 1 88 1672 1 25 provo T 05 15 red warrior 1 seven troughs 1 I iiii oa 23 king coal P q 15 oct 1909 0 con T 28 03 dec 1909 10 SS swansea con T 02 31 x U swansea eatn Ex tn I 1 00 OO 00 i xay aso columbus con L 05 59 10 so iron blossom 00 OOK wa 4 10 tintic central T 04 25 tintic coman T 02 40 80 02 dec 1909 U acle sam con T 25 utah con mam T 50 victor con T cs 14 11 25 victoria T 13 7 i 2 2 2 02 dec 1909 12 52 aioo nevada T T western 91 10 33 V 03 J jan i hankee con yerington 0 1 i 01 09 UNLISTED 30 38 75 5 CO ring cent stand 0 25 05 40 yo io 50 ely witch 11 23 federal ely 0 25 45 mcdonald ely 12 50 avex ovex 16 lav ia king 11 1750 08 lf I 1 gintic tintic standard TOTAL DIVIDENDS INCLUDING UNLISTED STOCKS 13 bingham ingham 13 M mercur T tiette tintic Tin tic fr fr frisco F fish springs A american fork P park city C biz cottonwood cotton wood Y tj little cottonwood fott onwood PV park valley I 1 montana I 1 nevada gold t gold and silver gold silver lead leac i t gold copper lead silver copper quarterly others pay monthly q N B wh when no sales are made closing bid and asked prices are given year shares amount 1897 1 07 1898 1899 4 all 1000 1900 2090 41 1901 20 1903 1904 ecna 50 1905 exceeded the dividends of the year before by about the following dividends were paid the utah mine aline paid 2000 west mountain placer 2500 victoria boston sunshine uncle sam sioux con iron blossom little bell daly west colorado silver ent year will show even better results although some of the mines of tintic gintic district 1908 1909 month shares value shares value january 31 february 54 march 12 april 40 12 may 67 june 05 21 july 1392 02 august A n ati caf 87 f 1 1 56 september 04 1066 63 october 00 37 november 74 03 december 83 10 total 62 king coalition utah consolidated utah copper united states it is likely that the pres are likely to reduce their dividends considerably and make them payable quarterly WM H |