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Show WEEK SHOWS - GENERAL . ' DECLINE IN STOCK PRICES The past week on the mining- stock exchange has been the dullest In many months. The total business aggregated only 1141,486, which Is $100,000 below the average. The week has also witnessed a general decline In the prices of stocks, though there was a slight recovery In many instances yesterday and t0d Daly "West today closed with a bid of $42.75, as against $45.25 last Saturday; Lower Mammoth at 91 cents as against J1.51V4 for last Saturday; Star Consolidated Consoli-dated at 26 cents, as against 32 cents; Uncle Sam at. 23tf, as against 27 cents; Martha Washington at 3. as compared with 4 cents, and a similar drop is noticeable in most of the other heavy traders. i Lower Mammoth held stationary today, as did also May Day and Star Consolidated. Daly "West and Uncle Sam both advanced, the former selling twenty-five shares at $45.25, and Uncle Sam at 24, cents. Utah slid down to 62. cents, Ben Butler sold at 12ft cents and Martha Washington at 3 cents. Quotations and sales: ' Bid. Asked. Alice .. ....$ .20 $ AJax 24 .2 Carisa 08 MM. Congor .15 Consolidated Mercur 1.26 1.30 Creole .&o Daly 1.60 2.00 Daly-Judge 10.25 10.70 Daly West 42.75 43.25 Dexter 13 .15 Eagle & Blue Bell 95 1.04 Galena 06 .14 Grand Central 3.50 4.75 Horn Silver 1.00 Ingot .". .03 .04 Little Bell .. , 3.00 Iower Mammoth .91 v .P2 May Day 21 .22 Mammoth 1.02 1.10 Northern Light .03 Ontario 4.50 5.50 Petro .09tf Rocco-Homestake .75 Sacramento 2434 -25 Showers Consolidated .... .40 Silver King 4 75.00 Silver Shield , 05i .0t?i South Swansea. lf.U .1V4 JXETAL QUOTATIONS. . ' f Silver dropped to 62 cent again today. Copper and lead ruled at their usual figures. ,' BOSTON MARKET. The Utah stocks were quoted as follows fol-lows on the Boston market yesterday: Sales. High. Low. Close. Amal .. ....56r $57.00 $53.37A $57.00 Bingham .. .... 967 27.50 27.00 27.50 Daly West .... 670 43.00 41.50 43.00 Mercur .. . ... L374 1.25 Utah 2135 30.50 30.00 60.50 United States.1415 21.624 20.50 2i.62tt Curb Boston, $3.754.00. Star Consolidated 26!4 .If Sunshine .05 .10 Swansea 50 .... Utah 62 .63 t'nele Sam Consolidated... .23'4 .25 United States Mining Co.. 22.00 22.75 Valeo ' .11 Ben Butler 124 . .12Vi Black Bess .... .66 California 134 .134 Century .. 53 .60 Emerald .06 .10 . Golden Eagle 00'i .01 Joe Bowers Ot ,01Vi La Reine , .04". .05U Little Chief 04 .06 Manhattan (K 00 7-16 Martha Washington .03 .03 New York .22" .24 Richmond-Anaconda ...... .02 .... Tetro .OS .10 Vk-tor V? Wabash .21 .... Yankee .38 .39 REGULAR CALL. Con Mercur. 100 at M.ZM. Isower Mammoth, 100 at (Hic: 100 at 91c. May Day, 500 at 22c: 1 at 21?c; 600 at 22A4C buyer thirtv days. Star Con, 500 at UfAc: 10U0 at 2Gic; 600 at atic. Utah. 100 at 64c: 100 at 63C Ben Butler, 600 at 121e. California, 500 at 13u, buyer sixty days. Ia Reine, 1200 at 5c. Martha Washington, 2000 at Sc OPEN BOARD. Daly West. 25 at 343.23. Lower Mammuth, l.Vo at 91c: 100 at 91c, seller ten days; ICO at 92c; 100 at 91 South Swansea. Km) at 17c. Star Con. 500 at 27c. buyer thirtv davs. Uncle Sam, 100 at 23c; 500 at 24c; 1000 at 24c. New York. 500 at TP be. Yankee, 400 at 3c. t TOTAL SALES. Regular call, 9000 shares at $1732. Open call. 5S25 shares at 33676.50. Week's total, 209,865 shares, at $141,486.25. MINING NOTES. The ore and bullion settlement yesterday yes-terday amounted to $53,300. The assessment on Carisa becomes delinquent next Monday. . Manager Rex of the Gold Dust Mining Mi-ning company is expected to return from the East today. The Vfall-De La Mar claim of, Bingham Bing-ham passed under the control of the Utah Copper company yesterday afternoon. after-noon. R. J. Decker, consulting engineer of the Moore Cyaniding' company, has gone to the Dexter, where a Moore slimes plant Is to be Installed. The shareholders of the La Reine Mining Mi-ning company have been called upon by the management to express their desires relative to the working of that property. prop-erty. Trouble between the Lower Mammoth Mam-moth and the Black Jack is now imminent. immi-nent. It is claimed that the former has been trespassing on the latter's property prop-erty near the 1100 level, and a lawsuit may follow. The Daly-Judge mill Is scheduled to resume operations Monday.f At the office today it was learned ' that the work of installing the improvements is nearly completed and that the mill will start as scheduled. From the miners who came down from Park City this morning it was learned that the cave in the Ontario tunnel was more serious than reported; and that a number of men were kept there today clearing out the tunnel. DECLINE OF $82,918,700 IN BIG COPPER STOCKS. In the general decline In stocks, which has now extended over a period of three months, the copper shares of New York and Boston have suffered almost as severely as some of the prominent railroad rail-road Issues. It is calculated that twenty-four of the prominent copper companies com-panies whose shares are dealt in In New Tork and Boston have lost in value $82,218,700 since the beginning of the year. The following table compiled by a Wall street Journal shows the Individual Indi-vidual declines, since January 1, 1903. Two Utah stocks have fallen off In value nearly $6,000,000. Share Shrink-capital. Shrink-capital. High. Low. age Adventure ....... KO.wO 18 6 $1,200,000 Alloues 10o,0"O Si 6V4 337.500 Amalgamated ..l,5oo,000 -75 51 38,168,750 Arcadian IdO.OOO 6i 2 643.760 Atlantic 100.000 144 84 4H2.5H0 Bingham l.iO.OrtO 39 2T 2,100.000 Calumet IOO.O11O 551 410 6,100.000 Centennial HXi.OOO 31T 1714 1,462.500 Copper Range .. 2S5,0u0 75 51V 6,697,6H0 Franklin 100.000 14 8 600,000 isle Royale .... 150.000 171,4 77, 143,750 Mass. Consol .... 100.000 18 6 1,80,0.0 Mass. Consol .. 100,000 14 6 1,200,000 Mohawk 100,000 79 50 2,9nO.0n0 Old Dominion .. 1 50.00 23 15 1.275,00 Osceola KO.OOO 79 50 2,900.000 0.uincy .. 100,000 128V4 95 3,150,0(0 Tamarack 0,00Q 190 110 4.S00.O0O Trimountaln .... 100,000 106 8fi 2,060,000 Utah Consol ... 300,000 27 20 3,150.000 Victoria 100.000 9 44 475,00 Wolverine 60,000 77 68 640.060 ' Total '. 1 ..$82,918,700 |