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Show MUCH ACTIVITY AT UTAH METAL MI Much Machinery Arriving and Large Force' of Men Employed. Manager S. II Trcloar and Superintendent Superinten-dent E. J. Baker of tho Utah Metal company com-pany at Bingham aro visiting in Salt Lake for a few days on company business. Tho gcntlemon have llttlo additional to iiy regarding tho progress of work at tho property, stating that machinery and supplies sup-plies aro arriving in goodly quantities and that a largo force of men Is employed In pushing work Just as rapidly as possible. pos-sible. Good progress Is being made in the repairing and widening of the tunnel, nnd sornn forty employees aro also engaged en-gaged In construction work on tho new boarding house, bunk house, shops nnd other surface buildings. Just as soon as the tunnel Improvements aro completed, which will be probably In about ninety days, it is the Intmtlon to continue the driving of tho tunnel, nnd by tho time the ore bodies are reached nil will be in readiness for heavy production. In the financing oi the new company, which wns accomplished largely through the efforts of Waller B. Farmer of Boston. Bos-ton. In conjunction with local Interests, provision was made for the construction of an electric haulage system from the tunnel mouth to tho new Tooelo smelter, and the building of this road, will follow fol-low In the natural course of events. Ono Loading Sufficient. It is stated that It Is quite probable that affairs will be so arranged that It will be unnecessary to transfer tho ore ns It Is mined until it arrives at its destination des-tination at the .smelter bins. The product prod-uct will bo loaded on tho cars in the tunnel tun-nel and will bo conveyed by them to the reduction works. A satisfactory grade It Is stated can be secured for such operations. oper-ations. A proposition of using a Shea engine and cars of larger capacity for carrying the ore from the mine to tho smelter has also been considered, hut ns there is much work to bo accomplished before this end of tho operations Ir reached, tho management man-agement Is not giving this fcaturo special spe-cial consideration at tho present time. Mr. Baker states tbnt there is much snow and severe weather at tho property, prop-erty, though It is not allowed to Interfere Inter-fere with operations to any appreciable extent. Boston Coppor Markot. James A. Pollock & Co., bankers and brokers, furnish the following, received over their private wire yesterday afler-nooii: afler-nooii: BOSTON COPPER RANGE, I Sales. II. L. IClse Boston Con 265 2H 214 21 Butte Coal 325 271 271 27i Butte and London 2Sc 25c 25c Cal and Arizona ... -116 1001 100 100 Consol Mercur 11 11 11 Copper Range 590 841 SI St Cum Ely 10 S S Daly West 105 S3 S3 SS Davis Daly 170 Ifc 4 U East Butte 2.005 121 12 12 Gironx Con 4.S30 12 12 12& Granby Con 110 110 110 Greene Can 1.050 11 11 11 Nevada Con 645 26J 261 26Z Nevada Utah 300 13 IE 13 Xlplsslng 101 10 10 No Butte 1.180 441 44 44 Trinity 720 112 101 Hi U S Smelter com... 325 53J 53 53 do preferred 220 52 52 52 Utah Con 462 443 4 1 443 Sup and Boston 25 16R 16 16 Ray Central 1.335 4 31 3S La Rose 100 4Z -It, 4 Chief Con 1.365 23 2fi 23 ' BOSTON COPPER CLOSE. j Bid. Asked. Black Mountain 45 50 Cactus .... 63 61 A. and M I 35c tOc Chemung Hi 151 Chlno 121 123 Gila lOi 108 Inspiration 9 11-16 93 Oak 22 22J National 55c 58c Baltic : Ill 15 South Lake OA 9E S. and G IS . 13 Yukon It 5 Nevada Douglas '. .. 2i 3 Newhouse .-. 31 3t Apex ' 4E 13 Bouvard 123 1-Z Zinc 3R 384 Hancock 33 33A Royale , 27g 27S Kew 5 5.3 Adventure 6 61 Arizona Commercial 173 48 Granby 110 La Salle 16t 17 Parrot 201 203 Santa Fe 2J 23 Tamarack . . 70 71 Winona ...... ... 1U 12 Wyandot 21 25 Boston Ely 4i 42 Indiana 0 91 Majestic .... 95 08 Oncco .- 6t 7 Ely Con 76c SOc Leaf 13c 15c Tonopah " 6t 7J Yuma 1 2 Ohio Copper -51 53 North Lake SJ 0 S. and P 16 161 Tamarack 3 3 Swift 100 109 Corbin 22 22?, Giroux 12 121 Helvetia 5 Lake 00 001 Miami .... 27 271 Allouez 51 Atlantic : HI 12 Cent 3j; 37 Franklin ' 17. 1S Mass ." 61 53 Mohawk i 6S hi' Osceola Ig2 M Qulncy SO 00 Shannon l!; !' Utah Copper ?'3 "Si Wolverine I US InO San Francisco Mining Stocks. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 11. The official offi-cial closing quotations for mining stocks today were as follows: Alia S .21 Ken tuck Con . .15 Alpha Con .... .13 L Wash Con .15. Andes 30 Mexican L.021 Belcher 1 ,30 Occidental Con .32 Best & Belcher .90 Ophlr 2.171 Bullion 23 Overman 72 Caledonia 65 Potosl 70 Challenge Con. .37 Savage .58 Chollar 31 Scorpion 15 Confidence .. . 1.45 Sng Belcher .. .12 C C & Va l.SOSIorra Nevada. .84 Con Imperial .07 Silver Hill 10 Crown Point . 1.25 Union Con 00 Exchequer .. . .37 Utah Con !.". Gould & Currlc .40 Yellow Jacket .1.121 Hale & Norcrss .64 St Louis 05 Julia IS E Sierra Nov.. .06 Justice 24 N G & C 20 NEW YORK MINING STOCKS. Alice Sl.OOiLeadvlllo Con . .05 "Brunswick Con .0.3 Llttlo Chief ... .06 Com Tun Stk . .33 Mexican I. SO do bondB 1S Ontario 2.37 C C & Vn 1.50'OphIr 2.10 Horn Silver ... -75JSlaiidard 50 Iron Silver .. .. 1 .65 Yellow Jacket . 1.30 BOSTON MINING STOCKS. Adventure . .$ 6.25 Michigan . . 7.00 Alloucz .. .. 51,00 Mohawk .... 66.87 Auialgmtd .. S7.25 Nevada .. ..26.50 Ariz Com .. 47.75 Old Dom .... 52.00 Atlantic .. ..11.50 Osceola ., ..162.00 Butte Coallt. 27.50 Parrot .. .. 20.50 Cal & Aria -.100.00 Qulncy .. ..80.00 Cal & Hccln.665.00 Shannon .. . 16. S7 Centennial 36.00 Tamarack . . 70.00 Cop Range .. 83.75 Trinity . ... .10.50 Daly West .. S.75 Ptah 44,00 Frnnklln . .. 17.50 Victoria .. .. 4.50 Granby .. ..110.00 Winona . 11.50 Greene Can . 11.00 Wolverine . .145.00 Isle Royale .. 27.371 N Butte .... 43.50 Mass Mining. 6.25 Oro Shipments. Tho Utah Ore Sampling company on Tuesday reported the relcasomont of ore as follows- Utah, 10 cars; Idaho. I car. Nevada, 1 car. |