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Show Volume of Trade in Utah Stocks Is Showing Substantial Sub-stantial Gains. While the Salt Lake Stock & Mining exchange is not as large in active membership mem-bership as it was four years ago, and while during the "lean" months of last spring and summer the volume of business busi-ness on some days shrank to where the total of the sales was less than $2300, there has been a marked revival since the signing of the armistice. There are also numerous signs to indicate that this revival is not spasmodic or temporary, but is based upon a conviction that shares in many Utah properties are good and legitimate Issues for both speculation and investment. There is also a prevailing impression among the careful students of mining conditions that the prices of metals have approxima ted the bottom, that any changes in the future will be noted as gains and that a readjustment of the unsettled conditions that grew out of the sudden termination of the war will be speedily effected. In addition to this, there is the certainty that the principal mining districts of the state, including the Tin tic, Park City, the Cottonwood s. Dugway, Beaver county, Deep Creek and Marysvale, this season will be the scenes of an unusual amount of development and prospecting. "When there is ai marked growth in minim? activity, interest inter-est in trading In the shares of the companies com-panies that are doing the work naturally increases in proportion. Without going into details, the following follow-ing figures show the business on the Salt Lake Stock Kr Mining exchange for a period of several months, giving number num-ber of shares sold and their market value at time of sale; 1 Week ended November 9 136,710 shares, value 533.74.90. Week ended November 16 366, 7S1 shores, value 57?, 006. 70. Week ended November , 23 312,160 shares, value 576.S35.13. Week ended November 30 205,237 shares, value. 5-17,719.71. November sales, 1,092,962 shares, value S2M.S04.77. Week ended December T 213,341 sha res. value $d 5, 797.97. Week ended December 14 322, 034 ; sharps, value 56,619.11. I Week ended December 21 462.0S2 ' shares, value SMtC:J2.5:s. ; Week ended December 2S 300,265 i shares, value 569,71:'i.v5. Week ended January 4 379. ?19 shares, I value. ??6,6;K.42. I Week ended January 25 32,6S3 shares, ! value 533, 972. 3S. : January Sales, 1.439. S? 2 shares, value I Week ended Februarv S 264,671 shares ! value 541.7.44. Week ended February 15 220.943 shares, value 5 1 1 . 3 S .13. Week ended February 21376,712 shares, value 564.05 5t. February sales, 1.217.930U shares, value $23 6.713.30. Week ended Saturday, March 1 336,-633 336,-633 J4 shares, value 5100.119. |