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Show MINING REVIEW INTER-MOUNTA- IN 10 STOCKS LISTED ON THE SALT LAKE STOCK" AN D MINING EXCHANGE. This list is incomplete, as many Utah mines have been and are now operated at great profit by individuals and close corporations that do not dividends. Twelve millions would be a conservative estimate of the amount of dividends paid by these mines. their publish niNINO STOCK REVIEW. paying regular monthly dividends of cents per share. The management announces that the slump in silver and The condition of the local mining lead will cause no reduction in output stock market shows very little change or interruption to dividends. Mammoth sold down to $2.55 during from last week, certainly no change for the but recovered 5 cents of the the better. It is useless to dwell upon loss.week, from the property conthe tempting opportunities for invest- tinue Shipments light, but the output is likely to ment and speculation that are now pre- be greatly increased within a few sented opportunities that during or- weeks. Geyser continues strong, with buyers dinary times would bring a swarm of at 75 cents. Mercur sold as low as $5.80, but there buyers into the field1 for the public are its made very few sellers at that figure. The seems to have definitely up company will pay its usual dividend of mind to buy nothing, no matter what 12 cents next month, and as it is now the price, so long as a cloud remains in out of debt, with a handsome surplus The financial in the treasury and the earnings reachthe professional sky. a higher figure than at any time in traders have taken advantage of this ing the of tje property, it is not scarcity of buyers and hammered riht likelyhistory that dividends will again be inall the and prominent and left, nearly terrupted. The erection of a mill at the hands. at their suffered mine, it is understood, has been poststocks have until next year. The slump in silver and lead would poned There were no buyers for Sunshine, naturally depress the properties pro- which may account for the low figures ducing those metals, and their down- at which the stock was offered. Sioux Consolidated has sustained a ward course has been accelerated by loss of nearly 50 per cent during the short operators. It is of no use to the pastvery few weeks, being sold at $1.05, moralize upon the mistaken policy of and no one can furnish a satisfactory brokers who take advantage of every explanation for this remarkable slump. weak period to break the market, for There is absolutely no change in the temporary gain, instead of rallying to condition of the mine that would justiits support and thus strengthening the fy it, and there seems to be a general alhas This of the public. confidence impression that dividends will be paid ways been done by brokers on every before the year closes. It is suggested exchange, and it is an evil from which that insiders are manipulating the there is no escape. stock for a purpose, but there is no own well, holds its d clearly-definewonderfully idea as to what that Ajax in view of the efforts to depress it, purpose is. sales being made at 6070 cents. There In unlisted stocks, Swansea and were no buyers for Anchor. South Galena monopolize the attention .There were some sales of Bullion-Bec- k of the public. The former, by persistat $6.106.35, and it shows signs ent effort on the part of the bears, aidof being forced still lower. ed by a few selling orders, was worked Centennial-Eurek- a is held at $65.00 down to still lower figures. The mine 70.00, with light offerings at those figis making some good shipments, but ures and few buyers in the field. there is no. information as to when a of the victim was a conspicuous dividend will be Daly South Swansea sold down to $6.50. continues strong, paid. is a favorite with and general raid, being A dividend of 25 oepts per share was traders. Dalton was lower, on the exthe stock is pectation of an assessment, and a levy paid during the week, and recent time upon Buckeye (Tintic) stock is also now lower than atj any divithe prior to the announcement ofaccounted among the probabilities. dend. This may partly be for by the fact that stockholders had Mining Incorporations. expected something better than a dividend of 25 cents. Bingham Placer Mining Company-Capi- tal, quarterly st stocks of few Daly-We$250,000, divided into 250,000 the is one that have escaped the. general slaugh- shares. Theodore Bruback, president; W. S. ter.' It continues strong, with sales at J. W. Young, S. T. Pearson, sectreasurer; $S.354.40. There was some activity in Galena, retary; C. W. Watson, general manaThis is a ger. The company owns a tract of which sold at about $1.70. is placer ground at Gibbonsville, Ida. miserably low price for stock that 5 .vice-preside- nt; Mc-Corni- ck, Unlisted Stocks The unlisted stocks closed as fol 1owts: Broker James A. Pollock has returned to the city, after an absence of several months in the East. During the greater portion of this time he was under, the care of the most skillful New York physicians, and is now quite restored to health. He reports financial affairs in the East in very bad shape, and it is folly to attempt to place mining propositions at the present time.areSmall unholders of investment stocks loading and prices have gone far below panic the figures established during the scare. of 1893 and the Venezuelan war Wall street traders, however, are doing quite well, one short operator having informed Mr. Pollock that he could close up his contracts at a profit of Times are expected to improve after the election, but the success re-or McKinley would meet with quicker sponse in the shape of renewed activityit than would that of Bryan, although and might not be so $3,-000,0- 00. far-reachi- ng Mr. J. R. Case of Chicago, who has extensive mining interests at Deauville, has been spending several days among the Utah camps, under the very guidance of M. R. Hunt; He wasTintic favorably impressed with the district. If you wish to do Business with the Mining Ph' lie Advertise in the MINING RBVIBW |