Show SALT LAKE STOCK MARKET salt lake is rapidly earning the tbt reputation of being the greatest mining share market in the world and irom from a small beginning a few years ago the volume of business in this line is assuming magnificent proportions this fact is illustrated by the daily transactions on the boards of the two mining exchanges in this city which however do not hot represent the full extent of the trading done by any means as the curb dealings often amount to as much more as that done on change while the stocks dealt in are nearly all gilt eged investment securities with prices running high as compared to the shares offered on the boards of other exchanges throughout the country one gratifying feature connected with the salt litke lake stock exchange is that everything is conducted on the square and the dealers are numbered among the best men of the city hiie the customer being treated squarely and fairly while a wildcat is a back number being scorched scotched scot ched and scorched should he but show his head bead in fact the transactions in the two pits are above even the mere suspicion of crooked dealing which in a measure accounts for the steady advance and increase of the daily business the salt lake stock mining exchange has now been in existence for over three years and i is s now in a most prosperous condition having recently enlarged and improved the room where its daily meetings are held starting with but a limited amount of business the volume of trading has increased until now it runs up into many thousands of dollars daily in 1897 a total of shares changed hands on its floor of an aggregate value of in 1898 the transactions amounted to shares for which the handsome sum of was paid in hard cash the sales for january of this year figured up to shares with a value of while in february there was a still further increase shares representing the business for the month for which the buyers paid the official directory of the salt lake exchange is composed of leading citizens and busl business ness men and is as follows officers major J E jackson president prof W H 1st ast vice president capt timothy egan 2nd and vice president F E mcgurren treasurer 0 E hudson secretary and arthur hudson assistant secretary listin listing i g committee prof IV H R L colburn J B thompson AT W taylor and ralph guthrie committee of membership james A pollock E G woolley and P J conway committee of arrangements capt timothy egan B D luce M IV taylor M S and 11 B cole committee of arbitration Arbi tation H W doscher il H H smith W B andrew herman bamberger and B D luce the utah nine mine fc stock exchange e al ai though of more recent origin has started in with bright prospects for the future and is already building up a good business its membership is composed of practical business men of good standing and young men of snap energy and push and the organization bids fair to make an excellent reputation in the future in the dealing in prime securities and good investment stocks the officials of the utah mine stock exchange are as follows officers hon W P noble president AV E vigus vice president W F smith 2nd and vice president G B blakely 3rd ard vice president john E R foulks treasurer and A L morris secretary board of control A T moon W D mathis C Twit twitchell chelland and george W jones membership committee W D mathis george W jones and A B mcmullen listing list ing committee G B blakely joseph R G smith 0 L baum and W P lynn arbitration committee J A earls joseph H hodson and J W langley the salt lake board begins its daily call at 1030 a m and the utah exchange at 1 30 p in |