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Show both silver and lead, which give every Indication of being- permanent, afford; much Inducement to ;the resumption of work, and will make a material difference differ-ence In the profits as compared witr some seven or. eight" years ago, when a great many of the mines and mills were closed down and have lain practically dormant since. . t DIVIDEND BY BUNKER HILL AND SULLIVAN. A dividend of 1800,000 has been postsd by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan miner of Wardner. Ida., and .makes rtie tota! amount divided among the shareholder of (,his property for the year $3,255,000. This is the greatest silver-lead produce; iithe world and its deepest tunnel ha' a deposit of galena which Is probably unrivaled anywhere. The controlling interest is held by D. O. MiUs of New York and San Francisco, while Fred W. Bradley, of San Francisco is president. The property was discovered by "Old Man" Kellogg. Phillip O'Rourke and a burro away back in 1885 and has paid since Its discovery in dividends a total of $5,626,000. Vlctor Clemenl was for a long time manager of the property and acquired a considerable Interest In the company, which his widow recently disposed dis-posed of to the American Smelting- and Refining eompanyfor a consideration of 2800,000. Some sensational advances in the prices ot mining stocks were made on - the exchange during te morning hours, , and before the session nad been brought . v to a close a. total of 17.00 shares had . been sold, for' which the otal amount ." paid was' $8990.75. ,' Carisa was the first number on the .. ist to respond .to the bids made, sell-, inr 1000 shares at 13 cents, while Little Bell was advanced to ?3.80 before the demand for 1450 shares was saHffled. Beck Tunnel proved to be ajothercen-sation ajothercen-sation of the day by moving up 42 renta with the floating of 2800 shares.' Jo Bowers contributed 500 shares to : the proceedings at 3i cents. XS On- the open board Columbus Consoli-. Consoli-. dated loosed up 100 shares at $3.31. - fter which it was. offered- cheaper; , , Lower "Mammoth tossed tip 2000 shares ' afcund S8 cents; May-Day was held rlown around. 12 cents vtlth the release of 2000 charesr New Tork was pressed . lack to 16 cents as 1500 shares were marketed: Thompson was pegged up to s, 17H cents as 4100 shares were sold, and trncle Sam Consolidated got rid of 600 N ; shares at 28. cents, , j The cloeing quotations on the regular order of business were as follows: - ' . , Bid. Asked. AJax i.- ...-.i .$ .18 $.J0 Bullion-Beck .J, 1.00 , - Carisa ?3 . .23i ; Consolidated Mercur .5 M Daly 1.26 1.75 Daly-Juils-e .. 7.50 1 7.75 ' "Jrand Central a.l2,j 3.40 ; ' Little Bell i.00 .... ; Lower Mammoth STVi .39 j Mammoth .. y. ' 1.30 May Day .12 . .13 j ntario .. , .... 4.50 i - .Silver King .... 60.00 ! Sacramento , ..WVj .U I ' Silver Shield ' .ix ' .20 ' Star Consolidated .-. .121 .14 , Swansea .. .4 .... .75 South Swansea - .03 .08 I'nlted States 89.25 40.50 Ctah .. .55 .5 Cncle Sam .3S .39 Victoria 1.70 1.90 Roston Consolidated 24.25 ' 25.00 Sutler Liberal, :.. .0?i .10i "Beck Tunnel .40V ingot .01 V l ittle Chief ....V... .02 .03 New Tork 17 .20. Richmond Anaconda .Z. Tetro ., 07 .09 Victor Consolidated '.. .04 Wabash 1.01 1.30 - Vaukee .. '. i... .30 .33 Jim Entler .61 .W Montana-Tonopah ' 2.32 2.3 ' Tonopah Common .......... 13.75 ; .... Tonopah Belmont' 1.55 .... Tonopah Extension 5.25 , fi.00 ; Tonopah Midway 1.50 1.60 MORNING SALES. Carisa. 500 at 23c. ' ' Little Bell. ICO st $3.49; 700 at $3.50;. 100 at $3.55; 100 at $3.. Beck Tunnel. 200 at 35c: 100 at 35c. seller sixty days; 2rt) at-3fic. seller sixty days; 100 at S7c, seller sixty days: 1 at 38c. seller sixty days'; 100 at 3fc, seller sixty iavs; 100 at 39V. . Joe Bowers, 5D0 kt 3c. ' , .. OPEN. BOARD. r. Beck Tunnel, SfO at 4Cc; 600 at 39c; 200 at 9S,c: 400 at 42c. Columbus Consolidated. 200 at $3.31. Carisa, 30 at 22c. - -Lower Mammoth. 500 at 2Sc; 1Q00 at S8c; ."Oft at 3V:C. Littl- Bell, 50 at $3.60; 100 at $3.70: 300 at $3.H. . Mav Dav. 1)0" at 12ic; 1000 at 12c. New York. 5u0 at ISc; 500 at 17c; 500 at 16c. Thompson, 500' at' 16c; 3100 at 17c; 1000 Cncle" Sam, 100 at' 38c TOTALS. Regular call, K50 shares for $97. Open board. 14450 share for $5050.73.. ' Total. 17.000 shares for $990.75. WEEKLY SETTLEMENTS . OF ORE AND BULLION. ... -V " Ore and bullion settlements during the past week amounted to-$593,100, which is the largest amount of metal that har been settled for on the local market for the same period at any time since the early part of the year low drawing to r close. The cause of the sudden advanct in the settlement is easily explained, when it is understood that the smelting plants down the valley are again running run-ning at full capacity since the supply ol coke has been increased so that the furnaces fur-naces are fired up to the limit. Settlements for last Saturday amounted amount-ed to $93,600. divided as follows: Silver, lead, copper and gold ores. $39,900; base bullion, $47,700: gold bars, $5000. - GRAND CENTRAL POSTS ANOTHER BIG DIVIDEND. Late Saturday the directors, of the Grand Central Mining company met at Provo and posted a dividend of 6 cents per share, or an aggregate amount of $12,500. the books to close tomorrow noon. With this distribution the Grand Central will have paid to Its fortunate shareholders during the present year a total of $100,000. or 40 cents per share, while the total amount in dividends up to the close of the year is $1,081,250. At the adjournment of the directors of the Grand Central the same officials met as directors of the Victoria and posted a dividend of $10,000, to be paid on the same date as the Grand Central distribution. This payment will make the aggregate amount distributed by this youngster during the year $30,000. ORE SHIPMENTS. ... 1 The Pioneer sampler has released one car of ore from Alta. two cars from Eingham and one car from Tlntlc. Taylor Tay-lor A Brunt on have released six cars of ore from Tintic. two cars from Bingham, five cars from Idaho and one car from ililford.- " Child, Cole & Co.. Brokers, 100 Atlas b'ock. Eoth 'phones 325. MAFFS 100 LOCATIONS IN UINTAH RESERVATION. "Rock" Popa. who has beezi down in - .the. Uintah reservation for the past year, came in from camp last night and it much pleased Vith the prospects of ihe mineral lands that he has acquired in that new country. In all he has located lo-cated 100 claims, thirty-seven of which jre gilsonite and the balance are elat-vrite. elat-vrite. the latter having small veins of about four feet In width. ' Mr. Pope thoroughly familiarized himself with that sectior and took advantage ad-vantage of his knowledge of the ground to g-t in and locate some of the most !osh-ble mineral claims in. that belt. He is backed by jsome of the big people , - . of Bo3ton and has a large force of men cn the ground opening up the properties at the M-esent time. Since coming to the city he has en-?;aged en-?;aged another force.of men that he will take to carap wltn him on tonight's i.r .m.. He anticipates that he wi!I develop de-velop as much mineral as any of the companies in that region, not except-!rg except-!rg the Raven Mining company. MINING BRIEFS. f Carl N". Klass, who Is one of the successful suc-cessful mining men of Goldfield. came in from the south last night, accompanied accom-panied by his wife, and will 6pend a few days in the city. ' Manager George Dern of the Consolidated Consoli-dated MTcur. having wound up the business at the local office, hiked out for camp again this morning. President Black and Manager Moats of the Latham mines, in Nevada, are scheduled to return from the property this evening, and while here they will' place orders for additional equipment at the property. Col. Nicholas Treweek of the Wabash, who has returned from a trip to the mine at Park City, can assign no reason for the marked improvement In the condition of the securities on the local market.. Henry M. Crowther. manager of the Contlnental-Alta properties, has arrived from camp and says that the coal famine In that section threatens to Btop the work at the mines. " Henry Wilson, one of the organizers of the Nevada-Superior company, .has arrived ar-rived from Humboldt. Nev.. and savs that' they are sacking ores at the property. Some ore is being sent out from the properties of the Copper Glance mine in Bintrham which shows values of as much a 2V6 per cent copper and $2.50 gold per ton. If. J. Sheafe. a well-known mining man from New Tork. has returned from the Searchlight country, where he has been mining during the past four months, and Is very enthusiastic oyer conditions Jn that region. Henry Krumb of the Guggenheim stan. returned this morning from a trip Into Nevada's mineral belt. The exact location loca-tion of his researches he refused to divulge. di-vulge. - EUCKBEE IS OPERATING TjrlE CUMBERLAND MINE. Arthur Buckbee, who for a number of years was one of the prominent mining men of. this State, and who- was en-cnged en-cnged In mining in the lower-end of the Tintic district, is operating the Cumberland Cum-berland properties at Silver City, Ida. He.is equipping his mine with electrical energies, and within a short time he expects to have the mine and mill run- - nh;g at full blast. A small compressor has alsJ been added to the new equip- ' nic-nt of the property and with a force f -twenty men he expects that he will bs abl to make the ground yield good : eturns on the outlay of money that the company has already expended. . , Mr. Buckbee says that there is considerable con-siderable activity in his section of the . State and that a considerable amount r( Eastern money has been Invested in the mines of that locality.. J. OBERNDORFKR, STOCK. BROKER. BRO-KER. Ill B. Main. Tel. Bell 79 NOTICE. The Foresters wish to warn the people against cutting timber for Christmas trees or any other -purpose on the Salt Lake Forest' Reserve, except capented land. Any one doing ro . is liable to prosecution.. . E. H. CLARK.' - . . Sjuperlntendent . METAL MARKET. ; ' S ' . Silver i quoted at the advanced ffi ' price of cents today, copper (i- castings are up to TA cents, and electro at 17? cents, while lead Is - -S, commanding the top price of i' per 10 pounds. - Will Take Crows to Iowa. DE8 MOINES. la.. Dec 11 Gov. Cummins Cum-mins today issued a requisition for the return re-turn of Pat Crowe to Iowa for holding up a street car In Council Bluffs the night of July. 2. -1903. A woman betrayed Crowe. Lillian C. Bolton of Council Bluffs.' In the bearing for a requisition, alleged that she overheard Crowe telling others about the robbery. , . ADVANCE IN SILVER IS " ' REVIVING OLD CAMPS. The rehabilitation of a great many of - tbe old mjr.es of the Western States Is due directly to the advance in the price . of silver, and If the present price Is maintained, there is little doubt that ' other mines whose principal product is silver and lead will atart up after years of Idleness and put on a paying basis. ' The recent advances in the price of - ' . - . Barnes Cass Continued. In the. case of the United States against tbe Kaysvllle banker, R. W, Barnes, who is alleged to have charged a relative more than $25, the legal fee prescribed by the Government for obtaining a pension, the matter was continued to a date hereafter to be designated in this' term. j . . i . . t . . . , .. s. . . . - . ... . . ' . -' |