Show THE MINING EXCHANGE Years Buying and Selling and the Values Involved The year on the mining exchange closed with yesterdays call upon the sale of CISSlCGI shares of stock for which the Investor 1 checked out no less that 1G7COSG095 Added to these lofty I figures the business o the curbstone I suid on the open board during the Same I period and the grand total is swelled to 3i04028 1 y shares that brought 21 l 15o57S5 The following table more expressively and with finer delineation than words can convey tells the story of the wildest anniversary of stock speculation in the annals Share3 0 the board Value January 7SP733 55130101 February MSOS tWJ 12 larch 173 35C 7J1U053 173 31mO53 April 1S5IEG4 I 051 53355 Ilay l lSi0575 y S5SJ579l June 1727530 1K39 ICCOS July < v 2CCS S l27fi5D12 August A 1K2522 1211127 heptcmbor lty03r 334212 77 October 23Q5G32 lSSTS933 November 1S105 1 4029 2000 December 4 l 21207 Jo30500C5 p < lW G Totals for year 2lS2IGUi 51G7COSG005 Curbln s and transactions trans-actions on open board fOI tho same period 9215020 i 7S9I7I2 Totals 31lMO23tiA 15357357 As revealed In tho table the epidemic1 4 epldCr1Ic 4of stocktrading into hich men of all professions the banker the merchant the artisan and laborer weredrawn began with the years beginning Tind rose and rose until July when It reached a height that was delhlous There was reckless buying as there is in all such frenzies but as a rule the investor had his wits about him and if there were disappointments It was because of Jnlliiences that no force could arrest In the delirium by which all natural laws were reversed a few got rlchthe number who were crip pled it would be difficult to enumerate All summer and throughout the dog days men and not a few of the gentler Senter sex fought their way to the bargain counters and rejecting all admonitions bought bought bought At One period or another perhaps 75 per cent of these could lave cashed in ata profit but the number who did was atomic as compared with the dejected multitude mlliude that did not I was the short who prosecuted his campaign with ebn greater zeal than those who promoted I the rise who did i and while no one challenges his right Ho discount the market certainly the governors of the gQernOIS exchange believed his practices re proachful enough to check him up bv wiping out the pernicious future However the wounds inflIcted during that memorable encounter between the bulls and bears are healing the mar 11 ket showed a stroni undertone as the year closed and the bull looks serenely upon the signs of greatly Improved conditions rrcaL Yesterdays sales were 25200 shares for IlSG63 to be added l ° the above I to tam totals I |