Show poor market hurls hurts non producers stocks have been quite weak on the exchange during the past week neek and some efthem have been ham feied down considerable sioux o 0 cons has perhaps suffered more than any of the local stocks and there ap pears to be no very good reason for 1 the falling off in the price of this stock A report ni as circulated to the effect thao the company was selling treasure stock but this was v as too absurd to be taken seriously then came the depoi t that thatty ti e east ern shareholders were getting out at any figure but butchis this story did not carry much v weight eight well informed mining men say that the stocks are being forced down because the selling ardeis far exceed the buying orders people N who ho have made money in the mines are withdrawing their money and araki g real estate investments and this cannot help but have a bad effect upon the market but everything indi i cates that conditions will be better within a few months at the outside the fact that the stocks are selling below their actual value is not hurt ing the producing mines they are going along as usual employing large forces and making regular shipments but poor market conditions make it difficult tor for the new companies to keep things moving |