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Show I SILVER KING ANO THE FEDERAL LEAD Indications That an Ultimatum "Will Be Reached at an Early Day in New York. A Tribune dispatch from Washington, D. C, tclllnp of the sudden departure of President David Keith of the Silver KIn& Mining company for Now York J City and Eastern interest in the mes-1 mes-1 sago that recalled him at an hour when he was preparing to flag a train for Florida, has rekindled Interest locally In the story that the Federal Lead company has decided that It can't get along without the matchless holdings of that sovereign of Park City at its belt. A message from the East during the day says the report that President Keith has returned to Now York for a llnal meeting with representatives of the big lead company, Is quite freely dlscuised thero and that while the principals prin-cipals refuse positively to have the subject sub-ject given publicity, their negotiations, if successful, will be followed by the biggest transactions ever made in the mines of Utah. i Hon. W. S. IVIcCornick, treasurer of the Silver King, and custodian for the company of a surplus that runs to delirious de-lirious heights, to whom the dispatch ivas shown, said that while he had received re-ceived nothing recent from the company's com-pany's president, the message, in his opinion, could have reference to nothing noth-ing less than negotiations for the King, An examination of the bbnanza. mado by W. Clayton Miller and Charles Hus-sey, Hus-sey, representing tho lead company, had been with most favorable results , nnd with that the principals were left to agree upon a price. If he recalled , It correctly, pleaded the trcasur6r of tho t company, the figure around which thoy were sparring was $75 n share, or Upon a basis of 500,000 for the whole. In t the deal the purchasers have obligated the King's representatives to deliver the control, at least, while on tho other hand the Federal Lead company has obligated itself to accept any nnd all additional offerings at these figures. "What the status of negotiations nt this tlmo Is Treasurer McCornlck says he has no knowledge whatever, although y ho Is prepared to believe that the lead 1 company Is urging an ultimatum before the departure of President Keith for the South. ) |