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Show Yankee Consolidated again proved to ts the feature pf the morning session of the mining stock exchange and while there waa nothing sensational in the aiovemer.ts of this security It did the re- . markaile stunt of holding Its own and at the fall of the hammer a transfer waa . n aJe at an advance. The list of stocks crawn into the trading. were given very scanty aupport and few transfers were pad. - ' v: i.Sal iUn-.moth again slipped a 100 lot through the Ifcies at 81.2a, but despite this Mttla trick itx price for the goods was held higher. whU Uncle Sam Consoll-, Consoll-, dated made only one transfer at 37, cents In tho face of the declaration of a divided, and Martha Washington ran out 2vW shares at i-11 of a cent. Yankee Consolidated handed out a bunch in Small parcels up to 40 cents and - was in good demand at the close. On the open board AJax responded to a "" call for 1000 shares at 16 cents. May Day was set back to 13 cents. New York looked the worse for" wear and touched . t.4 cents, while Victor retailed 100 shares , at $2.05. At the close of the regular order or-der of business the Quotations were as follows: - ' . Bid. Asked. AJax . .... .16 .16 -Albion . .60 Alice . .40 Boston Con 7.95 . 8.80 Bullion-Beck' 1.8ft' 1.60 Beck-Tunnel . , .07 .09 Butler-Liberal ., .13 .13 . Carisa . ..-....' .19 .20 Con Mercur . .43 , .51 Century ,t. .10 " .20 Creole . .80 Daly .....j 1.90 2.25 Daly-Judge . 6.25 Daly West . 12.75 14.25 , Kagle & B Bell 99 1.074 'Oalena-. .12 .22i . Grand Cen-. 1.20 Goldfield Bon .06 , Horn Silver 1.50 2.10 . : Ingot .01H .02 ' ; i Jim Butler i62,.4j .TO 1 Joe Bowers . ' .02 .024 tittle Bell . 50 , .60 Ittle Chief .02 , .02H Lower Mammoth . ........ .IS .24 : Montana Ton 2.di 2.80 I Mammoth 1.25 1.30 (May Day . 12, .13H 'Martha W . .001-18 .004 - jMacNamara . . .42 .60 (New York . .6414 .57-' (Ontario . . 2.00 3.00- Petro . ; - .07 Rocco-Homeetake . - , .274 'Richmond-Ana . ........... .05 . Sunshine . .02 South Swansea . .; 09 ' Sacramento . , .10 .10V4 . SUver King . 65.00. 69.60 Star Con v...- .08 .09 ' Silver Shield . 22 .24 . Tonopaa Bel 1.00 1.12 Tonopah Ext 5.00 To no pah -Mid way 1.37 1.55 ' Tetro 17 .19 " United States 28.75 29.75 Unci Sam Con .36 .37 I Utah 25 .60 -Victoria . 2.00 2.16 Victor Con . 06 . .05 '. ' Wabash . 1.50 1.97 .. Yankee Con .37 . ; 9 distant from Searchlight Nev. to facilitate facili-tate development work on the properties. A good showing of gold ore is found on the surface which averages better than $i5 per ton and, as the values increase with depth until as much as $3000 in values val-ues have been obtained, it can be easily seen that as a free milling proposition. Mr. Grjsh and his associates, some of whom are Salt Lakers, have a very profitable profi-table proposition in the southern country. One of the objects of Mr. Gresh's visit to the city at this time is to place an order or-der for a ten-stamp mill which will be Installed at the mine and placed In operation opera-tion as quickly as the machinery can be transported. . ' In this same csnyon Is located the properties of the Eldorado Nevada Mining Mi-ning and Milling company, whose manager is Edward J. Roberts, the man who made It possible for the Montgomery-Shoshone mine at Bullfrog to be opened up. Both Gresh and Roberts are young men and the future development of this new section sec-tion will depend largely upon their efforts. ef-forts. . . "WTLL GOES TO IDAHO. Otto Will, Ihe well-known mining man, who has been giving his personal attention atten-tion to the deals on the local stock exchange ex-change for the past three months,- de- rarted for the old town of Bullion near iailey. Ida, last night, where be goes to manage a silver-lead proposition for some mlnlngmen of this city. Before leaving Mr. Will stated that the property was one of merit and that he expected to make a creditable showing during the summer ceason. The mine Is only ten miles from Halley and la in easy access of the railroad and . can be operated both winter and summer without any disturbances dis-turbances from the native tribes or the weather. "We will have the entire town to ourselves," remarked Mr. Will, "as the place has been deserted for a long time and some of the houses of the old ' town have fallen down." BXJPEB1NTENDENT VTELBY I BUST DOW2T"AT TUNNEL.' Superintendent Wei by of the Rio Grande Western Is still at Ruby, having the tunnel tun-nel cleared up after the fire of yesterday. It will be fully a week before through service Is resumed. Trains are delayed less than an hour at the present arrangement. arrange-ment. A force is working day and night to restore the tunnel for train service. A large quantity of rock must be removed where the roof of the tunnel caved In In several places. SNTDEB, GOING TO PARK Judge Snyder will take a run out to the Thayne's canyon, country below Park City tomorrow and inspect the work going on in several of the properties in which he is Interested. Judge Snyder takes a cheerful view of the work that has been mapped out during the coming season in the canyon, and says that one of the most encouraging things that has happened of late Is the fact that the old Hanauer tunnel that has been extended to the crescent side of the mountain by the Keams-Keith company. Is draining the mines on both sides of the canyon. This will afford an Immense relief to such properties as the California, Comstock and Keystone and will mean the employment employ-ment of larger forces by each of the companies besides the renewal of work on some of the other properties that have been idle for more than a year past. , METAL MARKET. ?s 0 Silver is quoted at 6SH cents this 0 W morning, copper castings at 14 0 centa, and electro at 14 6-18 cents, ) with lead commanding 83.50 per 100 0 0 pounds in the local market and New 0 0 Tork paying 84.60 per 100 pounds. ORE SHIPMENTS. Taylor-Brunton has reclved one car of ore from Mercur, two cars from Bingham, three cars from Nevada, five cars from Tintic and ons car from Deep Creek, The Pioneer sampler reports two cars of ore from Alta, two cars from Tintic and two cars from Bingham. IOWA MEN IN TOWN. E. D. Waterman is escorting some of his fellow-townsmen from Sioux City, la., around the country, including H. J. McCracken, H. Brockman and Henry Hen-ry Clangg. Incidentally, the party Is looking Into some of the mining camps, and it is probable that some money will be Invested in the section of the mineral belt In our neighboring camps. Iowa is one of the States whose people have seen the advantages to be gained by placing some of their surplus money In the diggings of Utah, and that they have received profitable returns on the Investments made in this' locality is borne out by the fact that they return to get In on the ground floor of many of the new properties that are responding respond-ing to the prospector's pick. MINING NOTES. Manager John Dern of the Lower Mammoth bus decided to drop the shaft 100 feet from the 1400-foot level as quickly as the retimbering from the 1300-foot level can be completed. FORENOON SALES. Mammoth, 100 at 8125. Uncle Sam, 100 at 87c. Martha W., 2000 at l-16c , Yankee. Con., 400 at 39c at 89c '. OPEN. BOARD. AJax.' 1000 at lc May Day. 1000 at 13C.100 at 13c. New York, 200 at 66cAee!ler sixty days: 100 at 65c, seller thirty flays; 100 at 6ttjc, seller thirty days; 400 at 66c, 100 at 66&C buyer Jthirty days. Victoria. 100 at 82.06. Yankee,- 100 at 3W4 100 at 40c . - TOTALS. Regular, 3000 shares at 8480.50. Open board, 4300 shares at 81623.00. Total, J300 shares at 82108.6O. Child, Cols & Co.. brokers, 1C0 Atlas block. Bo'th "phones. 325. . i. v STAB CONSOLIDATED ' TO LEVY ASSESSMENT. - Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock the directors of the S.tar Consolidated will ' meet 'to levy the first assessment that . the shareholders of this company have . ever paid, and as the levy has been unanimously agreed upon by the share- holders at their recent meeting It is very Improbable that there will be a delinquent sale of the stock to follow. : It seems to be the opinion of all the directors di-rectors that the first call, ""and probably prob-ably the last one that will be made, will be for 3 cents per share, and as the policy. of the company Is a conservative conser-vative one, it gos without saying that very cent that Is raised by this means will be Judicially expended to further the best Interests of the property. All of'the oCicial members of the Star Consolidated family are evidently . " tryi"S to consult witli the holders of T ock before taking any action upon the jisture development of the mine, and lhit thev have the confidence of all ln-lorested'ln ln-lorested'ln th- welfare of this property is shown in the hearty arproval of the ' Fuggeetlon made at tho last meeting to amend the articles so that the direc-, tors could raUe money to continue the researches under ground. Of ths country itself every mining man knows that there Is a prospect of thU mine becoming one of the great . producers in the Tintic district, and as the mine has already sent out some very rich stuff it "seems to be simply a - questk n of vroing deeper before big bodies of the first class metal are en-.countered. en-.countered. ' . M. M. Johnson has returned from his Eastern trip and will immediately take up the work of developing the North Bingham properties,. reoeMly acquired by Mr. Newhouse. Samples of ore brought In' from the Carrie Mack, property shows values of ss high as $130 per ton, and an active campaign is contemplated at the mine as a result. "VV. B, Richards has returned from the Clifton region of the Deep Creek section and reports Increased activity In the diggings since the construction of the new railroad has been assured. '. Articles of Incorporation have been filed by the Mountain View Mining and Milling company, with a capitalization of J160.000, In shares of $1 each. Timothy Tim-othy D. Sullivan, Patrick Shea and James T. Drlscol of Eureka and Fred T. McGurrln and Patrick Ryan of this city are the incorporators. i i Superintendent Frank P. Swindler of the Bamberger-De La Mar properties say that the Installing of the 800-ton tailings plant is progressing very satisfactorily. sat-isfactorily. . . TV.- It. Tibbals made the final payment pay-ment on the Nlghthawk group, located near Bullfrog, for Cincinnati parties, yesterday, which Involved about 310,-009, 310,-009, and the first payment for the Ohio Girl mine- at Goldfield has. been received re-ceived from New York, . UNCLE SAM DECLARES i : . ANOTHER DIVIDEND. Dividend No. 8 was declared by the directors di-rectors of the Uncle Sam , Consolidated .'Mining company' late yesterday afternoon after-noon of 1 cent a share or a total of 85000. This was decided uion Immediately after the reorganisation of the board by the re-- re-- election .of the o!d directors and the selection se-lection of John Dern as president, James Chlpman as -vioe-presldent snd treasurer, and W. H. Thompson as secretary. The dlviJend will be paid on the 24th of this month, the books to close on the 17th, and reopen on the 26th. The declaration :of this amount of money among the shareholders was no "surprise to those who have been watch-. watch-. ing the shipments from this old producer, . and knowing ths economy of the management man-agement in the operation of the property, proper-ty, it seems oertatn that the Uncle Sam ' will b vne of the regular bread-winners for a oonsiderafels time to come. . 4 Superintendent C C. Griggs will be re-tamed, re-tamed, and the same policy will be pur-1 pur-1 sued as In the past, while more men will he worked tn both the mine and mill just . as soon as the management decide that ' the earnings of the company can be Increased In-creased by the employment of a larger - . force. . , - GOOD B2EP0ST3 COMING ; .moil CANYON. MamsT C. E. L. Gresh of the Black Hawk Mining company, came In from ' carap -serfnv nd reports everything ' la the SMor-t. tanyon moving along at ' (a rapid a pace a machinery and sup-r"es sup-r"es can be brought to to his section of ; Li country which-is Just twenty miles |