Show improvement IN STOCK MARKET one encouraging sign accompanying the renewal of activities in mining operation and development is the steadily increasing demand for mining stocks and securities and at prices much in advance of those which ruled six months or a year ago in some instances quotations have advanced by leaps and bounds with the limit still to be reached as is ia instanced in the which has gained over case of utah copper 20 per share during the last sixty days notwithstanding operations have been curtailed by at least 50 per cent during the last ninety days butte superior has registered a similar gain while other well known dividend payers have also been bringing advanced prices other mining securities have made phenomenal advancement because of rich discoveries co veries and the stock buying public seem as deeply interested in making investments as was the case eight or ten years ago when the interest in mining was at its highest flow and so much so that it seems almost certain that there will soon be a recurrence of the good times of 1906 and 1907 when fortunes were made time and time again by those who were attracted to the mining industry by the many opportunities it off offered ered one of the best signs of the times however as far as mining stock investment and speculation is concerned is the deep interest being taken in low priced stocks represented by meritorious and promising properties and it is such propositions as these which offer the best opportunities for money making at comparatively small investments and for the reason that prices now prevailing would hardly compensate for the cost of surface improvements let alone any real mine values 0 |