Show 14 BUTTE COLONY IN SALT LAKE butte evening news salt lake has a colony of montana men who may be seen about the mining stock exchange of that city engineering big deals and directing or promoting minin mining enterprises throughout the state the change often trades in as many as shares in one day there are two calls one in the morning and one in the afternoon after oon and between times unlisted stocks are traded in and the miniature wall street is a bedlam alice daly west and bingham t standard in which many butte people hold stocks are traded in freely bingham standard has been soaring and in view of a proposed consolidation soli dation there is a lively scramble for this stock not long ago it could be had for 50 cents a share while the present quotation is around among the butte men who prospered with bingham standard are W W latham who got in on the ground floor and some say by way of basement A L dutton button and al lovey besides cleaning up nice bunches ot of money in goldfield stocks made money in the bingham deal one nice feature of the butte colony in salt lake is the evidence of prosperity for the boys are going about with money virtually sticking out of every pocket the bingham standard has a big delegation of butte men in its personnel of officers E W dark clark formerly of butte is president mr dark clark is manager ot of senator darks clarks utah ophir mine A J bettles of butte now of salt lake a big man with the newhouse people is one of the organizers the smiling face of harry charles is seen about salt lake as often as harry can get down frona from Ding bingham liam where he is the whole thing around aroland F A heinze smelters shelters sm elters charles has hal a big interest in the bingham standard W W latham promoting the interests of standard when it was a half dollar has made money for everybody he knows in salt lake and is a heavy buyer and seller on the exchange W E hubbard of the hubbard investment of butte and R W sampson who once lived here have both made cleanups in the standard deal the standard people claim a foot vein of copper ore it has acres lying adjacent to the boston con bingham central and bingham and newhouse anil an d in line with the veins of the famous highland ba boy afie the proposed merger is to be with the bins bing ham central which has acres michigan people peoble are coming strong into utah the jeff brothers louis and william connected with the osceola and other mining interests are heavy purchasers and stockholders in standard their purchases of standard during the past week cleaning up the market louis jeff is one of leading consulting mining engineers most of the butte colony predict 3 for standard in a few weeks and the boys say they are going to hang for that figure anti then hang on |