| Show consolidation of claims in south end of district stockholders to ck holders of several south tin tic tie properties voted to con consolidate solid ate their interests and hereafter the merger will be known as the laclede mining company with holdings em bracing upwards of acres the companies merged are the west morning glory southern queen gold diamond consolidated home stake and laclede thos weir a well known consulting engineer will have charge of the property when asked relative to future plans mr weir said that no plans had yet been considered tor for future operations and war conditions may postpone any ex tended work indefinitely the pro berties were more or less owned by the some interests and the main idea of the consolidation was to sim pliay the conduct and to save duall eating expense of developments which might be done in common the properties are near silver city the main shaft Is down feet probably this will be made the main working entrance to the big property the president of the company is J clarence taussig an attorney of st louis who represents interests of people in that city |