Show AJAX JUMPS FORWARD It Was the Sensation ot the Day Lower Mammoth Lively The clay on the mining exchange closed wllh the transfer of 62925 shares of stock that brought llmi2 and with the market as active perhaps as I at any time since the dedication of the pit to the plunger The noisy overture began with AJax and continued until the gavel descended on Yankee nnd I with no less Ihan nineteen securities I participating AJax was the attruc I Job hrjweer and opening up at SO I I cents to which llgure the Indians had I advanced It on the CUrlS OflC nouvJth l standing the admonitions of the man jigimenr as boon up to 01 cents The pftcc had been one that wearied however how-ever and from that point It began to recede as rapidly as U 1 11111 advanced The Indian having taken his margin as the security went up he now began to short It and AJax was a few breaths later selling down to SHi cents Then the recovery came and climbing back to S3 cents It closed with but SCli cents to be had The experience of Consoli dated JMcrcur was not so cheerful Thawed out at 323 It wan soon scurrying scur-rying down the slide the bears helped along by l depressing denials that had Issued during the night from the secretary secre-tary of the company unill It finally flattened out to M03 with less than that to be had at the close The disastrous dis-astrous blow which had been dealt Consolidated Mercur however was soon forgotten In the superb performance perform-ance of DalyWest that treked up to 30 and sold on a basis of 51500000 for the whole while Daly so long neglected neg-lected moved up to 202 and then settled set-tled back to 5193 with the Investor doIng do-Ing his utmost to hflld It back Lower Mammoth exhibited Its strength at tno start Selling up to 103 the next lot was at 4 flat and with that It was eased down to 390 with but 4 cents better asked at the finish May Day held up lo 35 cents under the weight of 2400 shares that appeared on the counter while Valco taking a fresh start moved up to 31 cents with Star Consolidated going back to 76 cents Sunbeam which has been neglected for some time was put back to 11 cents whllo a little over 600 shares were being be-ing moved while 100 Sacramento was permitted to go at 37i cents and 1000 Daisy at cent RoccoHomestakc made a new record for Itself at OS cents and then receded a fraction while 20000 Manhattan changtd hands at Jii of a cent The unloading of 1100 Sunshine sent It back to 26 cents while Northern Light forged ahead to 5 cents while 000 was going over the counter Joe Bowers for which there has been a quiet demand for some days sold at 3 cents and Yankee Consolidated Con-solidated at 10 cents with South Swansea loosening up at 1 The session ses-sion finally closed on the following market Bid Asked Anchor 5 70 Ajax Albion 70 Mice STii JiilllonBcck 113 Boss Tweed 07 IS Blue Bird OOA Ben Butler 01 02 Junker Ulll 03 Centennial Eureka IlOO 7rcole f ion i-on Mrrcur 300 3M Duly ij j lOD DalyWest 20S5 299716 Dalton Lark 07 Daitoui OC i 10i Dexter 110 124 Daisy Qij OOy Emerald 07 Eagle Blue Bell 7C 00 Four Aces OL eyscrMarlon 00 00 1 alcna 05 12 Grand Central 577 000 Golden Jungle 01 horn Sliver 110 lomtsiake > 07 ingot 03Vi OlTa Joe Bowers 02 03 Johnny 05 Lremlln 10 owcr Mammoth 35 3M Mammoth 212 SIJHS lunhallan CI > H C A lay Day 1 35 lartha Washington 02Vi 03 Northern LIght oufc iV u > Nevada 02 10 Ontario G75 Jetro 12 0 torcollomcstakc 93 7 RG w ai Sunshine 22V 264 wansen 3SW 4GO South Swansea 100 lttl Sunbeam jo 41 Sacramento 37Ji 55 Sliver ICIng 700 7300 Star Consolidated 73a 77 howers Consolidated V 1 Shield y re Toiro 03 esora 20 Hah J 00 75 Valco 30 < 4 1 < > Yankee lOVi 10i Sales were recorded as follows AJax SCO at SOc 1PCO at 5c 2100 at OOc 5l0 > at We WO at 02c KO at 0hc 100 at We CCO at S3c 100 at S14c COO at Sic 1200 itt S2c SCO al S24c 100 at SHc 100 al S2c 00 at SS c 100 at Wtc lOO at S4c KO at idMc Iii 4c liOO at 4c OC at E6c CCO atSTc S00at Sc HHt S7rie 20at Gjfce KD at Sc 2CO at Kfic SjO at Scat Co Sc-at SGUc Con Mor ur 100 nt 12T 100 at 520 1W at Rli ICO at 310 IM al JGW 100 at Daisy JQ at 1c Dalyt200 nt 197 CW at 52 200 at J202 100 at hS DrilyWest 200 at 120 Lower Mammoth 100 nt tt03 2CCO at 1 200 at 395 W Jit J3M 205 at J3C3 ICO at 35t 10 nt 3SH 3JO at 5350 May Day 2400 at C5c Northern Light lOCO at 4tc 3000 at Sc RocooIlomeatakc 100 at PSc 200 at DTVsC Sncmmneto ICO at STUe South Swansea JO at 51 1 Star Con JOO at bOc JC < > 0 at 7Sc 10 at 7c 100 at TCAc 100 at 76c Sunbeam 150 at 351c 125 at He ICO at 41e Sunshine ICO at 2c 10 at 2Sc 100 at 2ue 1W at 2Fie XO at 27c 500 at 26c VoIce lOiXi nt DOc 5 yt at 31c Ben Butler 20i at 1Ac Joe Bowers aCO at 2e Manhattan 10CO al ic WO at sc 10000 at Vj C < > 0 at c 7000 at ic Vimkcc Con 2CCO at lOV c Shares sold G2K25 Sellingvalue f419IJ2 HEAVY ON THE CURB On the curbstone during the atter loon the transfers reached a total oC 25DOO shares of stock for which 13291 was paid Mammoth which had been > n the retired list for some lime again burst upon the horizon and opening up at 221 moved up at terrific pace until 230 was reached when It ro ceded and sold back to S2251 about 700 shares changing hands In the per ormarqe that lasted perhaps an hour Lower Mammoth betraying the effects of tIme furious pace at which It had been traveling for days found Itself back at 3GO immediately after the call on change was over and at one interval inter-val It might have been had at 050 The plunger to whom It was tendered however begged a moment In which Lo confer with his associates and when lie returned St was selling at 370 From that point It climbed to X90 with 500 soiling at J buyer thirty days and closed with 3PO bid for the stoek The bears In the meantime continued con-tinued their raid on Mercur 100 of which changed hands at 302l4 while 200 followed at 3 although the cause for the panicky condition of the stock was not apparent A lot of 20000 Northern Light that made Its appearance appear-ance on the counter was quickly ab sorbed at 55V cents while about 3000 shares of AJax sold at OOc lo 1 and closed with the former figures bid SALT2S OF THE DAY The sales for the day on curb and change reached a total of SSS25 shares for which 5320712 was paid Ore and Bullion Settlements In the ore and bullion market the set tlements were reduced to 12000 di vided as follows MeCornlck K CoGold sliver lead and copper ores 3700 T 11 I Jones Co Oernmnla bullion goil silver lead and eoper 01cs In the melal nmrket silver ruled at C34 cents an ounce lead at 51 1 pet 100 i T pounds and casting copper at 154 centS a pound > |