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Show SEDATE TAKIIG IIP LEAD WF HATTED Present Week Idi portani One for the Producers of Lead Ores. ''If there is anyone in Utah who has close relations with any member of congress, now is the timo to take advantage ad-vantage of tho sanio in tho interest of retaining tho present tariff on load," said a well known lend miner aud worker for the present, cause, as he scanned a message from- Washington on Monday. Ho staicd that there was something wrong at Washington in this lead tariff matter, nnd that the fight by no means was fndrd yet. The li-ad miner has neither lost nor won the battle, but the former may be the case if every effort is not mndo immodiately to influence members of congress- Marry S. Joseph received a telegram Monday morning from Senator need' Smoot "urging that all the- facts and figures' possible bo forwarded to the capital at one, as the matter of reducing re-ducing or retaining the lead tariff will be up for disposition in tho senate during dur-ing the present week. The results of the recent lead conference held in this city aro now en route to Washington and should bo in tho hnnds of the Utah delegation today or Wednesday. As a well-known mining mau put the matter yesterday: "There are too many lead propositions hanging on by their oyo-brows now with lead at $1 to allow any additional burden to bo piled upon them. It is up to all who are interested, aud there is not a soul in Utah not interested, to keep the present pres-ent tariff schedulo intact.'' Stock Letter. James A. Pollock & Co., bankers and brokers, furnish tho following received over their private wlro yesterday afternoon: after-noon: Hutton & Co. stock letter, New York-Operations York-Operations In the stock market by large banking syndicates were the features today, to-day, nnd many nev high records were madf, profit taking sales and short selling sell-ing worn readily absorbed, and the ten-doncv ten-doncv remained up until late dealings, when fractional recessions occurred. Tho settlement of the Balkan trouble and the break In foreign exchange were early factbrs. Sentiment seemed to be cheerful on the probability of early settlement of tho tariff bill. Wc believe It time to figure fig-ure on reactions now, but continue to take the view that tho market should be bought on such opportunities |