Show MINE conditions AND THE STO STOCK CK MARKET people often complain that times are dull that money is tight and that there is no demand for mining stocks some attribute this condition to financial situations east to the fact that tariff tinkering is gu go nig on or that it is doubtful to f ortell fortell what may result from the new reciprocity measure they look at the stock quotation board and wag their heads in dismay over the low ebb of the market and deplore the fact that there is no money in the country A week later possibly a strike is reported in some property listed on the board and quotations pick up a little the next week a mammoth body of high grade ore is reported in an adjoining property and the business on the exchange is doubled in volume within a short time several other mines in tha same district come to the front with splendid surprises surprise s and the first thing the doleful ones know the market is so full of excitement that the whole city looks on amazed while stocks so low in value a few weeks before and quoted at figures that would barely pay for surface improvements have jumped 50 or per cent in selling value it is hard to imagine such a condition of affairs but they have been experienced in salt lake city time and time again and so often in fact that it has been clearly demonstrated that there is plenty of money in th the e country and that it will come out if an n opportunity is offered for fairly profitable investment or speculation this shows that the mines themselves have the greatest influence on the stuck market that when the mines are in position to earn money for di dividend videna requirements and show evidences of permanency money will be forthcoming for the pur purchase chae of their stocks regardless of proposed tariff or reciprocity measures and that most of tills this will be home money without depending upon the east for any of tha tbt sinews of war |