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Show MARKET -OPENS STRONG; V MLY DROPS AGAIN The stock market opened atrcng this morning, with a large number of stocks active. Martha. Washington released 23.400 chares, all above the 7-cent mark, but none as high as 8 cents. Carisa held firmly above 19 cents and sold 4900 shares, the highest flguie belnx at 20 cents, buyer sixty days. . Daly was again on the decline, selling today' as low as $4.90, a drop of $1 since last week. Galena suddenly became active, dropping 7100 shares, and prices ranging downward from 17Vj tq 14 cents. Wabash opened at 41 cents and after selllnr up to 41tf cents, declined again, and sold as low as 40 cents. In all a total of 8300 shares changed hands. California showed e considerable drop from Us record of last week, a sale of 600 shares being niide at 22 cent. Lower Mammoth held around 71 -cents, with a tendency upward. Bid of $2.50 failed to bring out any Naildrlver steck. Th rininr nn.it at Ions and list of sales follow: sen says that the volume of ore of commercial com-mercial quality is constantly Increasing and that shipments would be begun at any time, but until the coming of spring he will confine operations to blocking out ores and opening new ground. Secretary A. J. Weber of the company com-pany said that following the return of Manager Van Patten from New York the force would be increased and shipments ship-ments steadily kept up. The present stage of development assures a good margin above operating-expenses. Several Sev-eral parties have recently endeavored- to secure a lease upon the property but the directors show no disposition to transfer the mine to other hands under the present pres-ent favorable conditions. Bid. AskM. AJax Alice !. j ji Bullion-Beck -, z' Carlaa .I' Consolidated Mercur LJJ Ba&ju-agV.::::"::.: . Daly West 38 80 S Dexter : 'S Eagle St Blue Bell Galena -Vl Grand Central ? Horn Silver l Ingot ? -2 Lower Mammoth .. .'lX' ' im Mammoth May Day -WU M i Ontario Petro 'i? Rocco-Homestake "ihi. ? Sacramento b' - -ri Silver King " Silver Shield , Star Consollated .... J ? Swansea ' 'iS South Swansea U. 8. Con .;' ' United States 2.00 ITtah .. .w' Vateo 10f 25 Ben Butler J ; Doss Twwd "o4M 'ni California..... '& Century Dalton Emerald -ol -L Golden Eagle Joe Bowers iw, -7, La Reine - Little Chief Manhattan -J", Martha Washington -f New York M Tetro X Victor West Morning Glory ? White Rock -w Yankee Consolidated Wabash REGULAR CALL. Carisa. 500 at liWic; 1 sixty days: 500 at 20c. seller sixty days; oOO t I97tc- 1400 at lc: 1000 at lSe. aCreofe. 1 at 0cT 1 at c; 100 at 60c. Daly. 5 at $4.95: 100 at M.90. EStitfEi fffiU! at 15C, 2000 at I4c; GOOat HVic California. 600 at 22c. MINING NOTES. Manager McCune of the Consolidated Victor says operations on that property will begin this week. The Bingham and New Haven company com-pany made another payment on the purchase pur-chase of the Mining Star and Zelnora of Bingham Saturday. E. W. Griffiths came in from the Martha Mar-tha Washington property yesterday, highly pleased with conditions at the mine. A consignment of T rails went up to the Naildrlver this week, and the natural nat-ural supposition is that they are to take the place of the wooden ones now in use in the tunnel on this property. Park Record. The ore and bullion settlements for the week amounted to $015,000 as compared com-pared with $511,800 of the previous week. Added to this the $150,000 In copper bullion bul-lion turned out by the independent smelters, which brings the total up to $465.000. St. Louis Wool. ST. LOUIS. Feb. 16. Wool Steady; Territory Ter-ritory and Western- medium, 17(&18c; fine, lTc; coarse, U& lSc. Kansas City Cattle. KANSAS CITY. Feb. 16.-Cattle--Re-celpts, anw. Including WOO Texans: steady: native steers. $2.05.35; Texas and Indian steers. 13.00fc4.00; Texas cows, $2.6O&3.06; native cows and heifers. $2.003.75; stock-ers stock-ers and feeders, J2.50fr4.15; bulls. $2.26ii3.50; calves. $2.5O(f6.00: Western steers, $J.7o 6.K: Western cows. $1.90S3.00. - Hogs Receipts, 2000; market, steady to 10c higher; bulk of sales. K&56T.00; heavy. .90fr7.12i; packers. W.756.95; medium, fi.857.; light. J6.60S6.95; yorkers, J6.90 6.95; pigs, $6.7041 6.65. ' Sheep Receipts. 1000; market, steady; muttons. J.l.50fiS.10; lambs. J3.of6.25; range wethers, J3.0Kd4.83; ewes. J3.0QiS4.90. wYork T00".t lie; 500 at 23c. seller thirty days; 600 at ZlVfcc. aeUer thirty days; WwtbhC:71.V4tSi 500 at 41tjc; V at 41c 1W at 4oc; S00 at 40Hc: at c; 100 at 40c: 100 at 4e: 2 at 40c. YankeeT 100 at 44c; 100 at 43c; 100 at 41 vc Lower Mammoth. 100 at 70c; 100 at Mc; Vyayfi thirty days; 1000 at 16c. Sacramento, 500 at 27c. Uncle Sam, 200 at KSc I'tah. 1500 at 67'Ac; 200 at 67Vc Martha Washington. 2000 at 7V; .400 at Ttcl 3500 at 7c: 2i00 at 7c. seller twenty day : 1000 at 7c. buyer sixty days; 3000 at 7Vc; 3000 at 7c. OPEN CALL SALES. Carisa. 1000 at 19c: 500 at 190 Consolidated Mercur, oOO at $L3. glly'K $39.50: 25 at $39.40. South Swansea. 1000 at 26c. California, 300 at 23c. IJttle Chief. 500 at oc. Martha Washington. 500 at Tic. seller thirty days. Brxra . TOTAL SALES. Regular sales, 50.750 sharesat $11,033. Open sale, 4000 shares at J3233. Total, 547.500 shares at $14,2wi. LA WHENCE CON". STRIKE. Manager W. J. Lawrence of the Lawrence Law-rence Consolidated" Mining company of Pine Grove, Ida., has received samples of ore which show the presence of $192 gold, with forty-nine ounces silver per ton The ledge has now been opened up for 300 feet along its strike, and 100 feet on the dip, and with the whole maintaining main-taining an average of $18 per ton there is little doubt of the property's equipment equip-ment with a mill the present season. BOSTON CAPITAL BEHIND PIUTE MINING COMPANY. The Boston and Gold Mountain Mining company is the most recently re-cently incorporated proposition in Piute's great camp. Messrs. R. M. Keen and B. Stringham Young of Richfield have Just returned from Boston, having successfully consummated its promotion. promo-tion. The new corporation owns a large area of territory and has already be-gun be-gun vigorous work in its development. Mr. Keen reports a very lively Interest displayed by Bostonians in Utah mines. At the Lewiston group of claims, west I of the Tribune, on the Fish creek side I of Gold Mountain district, the completion comple-tion of a 100-foot contract has resulted in the disclosure of a mineralized formation, for-mation, similar to that on the Annie Laurie side, which has raised the hopes of those interested. No. 3 hard winter. 6Sfi72c: No. 1 Northern spring, 7!(j0c: No. 2 spring, 7&79c; No. 3 spring, 70ft 77c. Corn-No. 2. 4.W4S',c; No. 3. 41iift42Vie. Oats No. 2, ZiWlthkz; No. 3. 33Vi&33c. Advance in Sugar. NEW YORK, Feb. !. All grades of re-fl re-fl n eV sugar wcrp advanced 5 points today. New York Money. NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Butter Receipts, 4500 packages; tirm; State dairy. 1nft24c; creamery, extra, 26c: creamery, lS625c. Eggs Receipts, 10.1') packages; firm; State and Pennsylvania, ISc; Western un-candled, un-candled, 17c. Sugar Raw. firm: fair refining, "Up; centrifugal, 9ti-test, 3ic: molassew sugar. 3c; refined, steady: crushed, J5.23; powdered, pow-dered, $4.76: granulated. J4.6T.. Coffee Firm; No. 7 Rio. Bc. Chicago Grain. CHICAGO. Feb. 16. Wheat opened steady, with Mav a fhade lower to a shade higher at 77i&c. Quite liberal offerings by locals caused May to sell off to ?7Va77,c, but covering by shorts soon carried- the price back to TTVfc. Close: Wheat May, TTfTsc; July, 74'n4i-74sic. Corn February, 42c: May. 4o'i&45,ic. Oats February, 34Uc; May, 36'c; July, 32, c. Pork May. J17.r.Sn.374: July. $1S.R5. Iard May. J9.fi5: July. J0.42W. Ribs May. J9.57V4: July, J9.37V4g9.40. Flax Northwest, cash. $1.19. Rye May. 60c. Farlev Cash, 44?56c. Timothy February, $4.00. Cash: Wheat No. 2 red. 7Tnft76c: No. 3 1 red 74'S74V; No. 2 hard winter. 72fo73c: I S 1,500,000 OPTION ON DE LA MAR PROPERTY. Managing Director A. F. Holden of the United States- Mining company has Just finished a preliminary examination of De La Mar's Bully Hill mines and smelter in Shasta county, Cal., under an option of $1,500,000. for which amount Capt. De La Mar has offered that bonanza bo-nanza to a crowd of prominent Boston Investors. Capt. De La Mar's representative represen-tative at the examination was George H. Kislingbury and John Hays Hammond Ham-mond will represent the Boston crowd in the final examination. PARK CITY SHIPMENTS. Following are the shipments of ore from the Mackintosh sampler for the past week: Pounds. Daly West ,367,0"0 Silver King .... .1.839,600 Total 5,006,600 BAZOUK TO SHIP. Reports received today from Superintendent Superin-tendent John Larsen of the Bazouk of Bingham are most encouraging to the shareholders in that property. Mr. Lar- r |