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Show I The Market and the Mines I iH Salt Lnko City scores again. Los Angoloa, the mm omniverous metropolis of Southern California, lli has been detected in 'the act of kidnaping D. C. 1 Jackling. The discovery was made In time and the bold attempt frustrated without the payment II of a penny in advertisements, rewards, detective 1 j fees or even the intervention of President Roose- II ! velt. Incidental to the purchase of the Ray & i ; Cavanaugh copper properties in Pinal county, H j Arizona for three million dollars, a deal in which Si I he was associated with MacNeill and Penrose of 8 H Colorado, Mr. Jackling stopped off between trains wlSi in Lob Angeles. It was then that the chamber HH? of commorce and the Examiner, aided and HI abetted by a hotel concocted the kidnaping HI scheme. The story of the plot has never been filll tol(1 ns Goo(lwIn's woekiy is preParo(i to to11 (,M "You know Jackling," said the president of j the chamber of commorce to the editor of the ii!ff; Examiner. "Now that ho is In town wo must i l keep him hero. In a week ho will be taking pure gjfff; copper out of the asphalt on Spring street and Pf i ' in a month ho will be hoisting gold ore at the MM Angels' Flight." H, "But how?" asked- the editor. m, mi "Listen to me," pursued the president. "Pie jfjtf has just paid three million for those Arizona KW ln mines and it is not likely that he has more than H a thousand or so in his pockets. Ho is stopping iii! at ono k08 hotels. Now you fix it with tlie Proprietor to insist on the payment of his $j itfjjji hotel bill in cash and refuse all checks. That IS I ji will hold him for a while." j3 1 Iff With a fiendish chuoklo the editor consented, mil The landlord quickly fell in with the con- ififlSJ spirators. The fiist portion of the plot worked jj$f' tfijl out perfectly. When Mr. Jackling called for his jiS j,! : bill he found that ho lacked a few thousand dol- ,y V'!?i lars of the amount needed to pay it and ho wrote tift 5jfi out a chock. The check was refused. Remon- 'S; P strances were in vain. It looked as if the con- jPf. spiracy would succeed. But the conspirators had Mpj! not made allowances for the resourcefulness of jfljt a man who can get copper values out of a cedar ju stump. With the assistance of a candle from WL fffl hi baggago and a cork from a beer bottle he soon lip colored his face a deep ebony. A ring of the bell brought a porter to liis room. The minion felt himself seized by strong arms and before ho could cjry out a gag was thrust between his teeth. A moment later he was stripped of his brass buttons and gold braid and lay bound and helpless on the floor of the bath room. & Down in the rotunda of the hotel a particularly active "coon" carried satchels, hustled ice water and speeded the parting guest with a whisk broom, never forgetting to put out his hand ana say: "Thank you, sah!" at the. right moment. Fully two hours before train time Mr. Jackling appeared at the desk, laid down the full amount of his bill in yellow gold and regained his liberty. The proprietor was too surprised to ask any questions and ho did not guess how he had been outwitted until a chambermaid found the helpless porter in the bath room of what had been Mr. Jackling's suite. & t A report, lacking in detail but to the general effect that the Colorado Mining Co. is shipping ore from its Tintic property, reached the city this week. It was the kind of news that the public has been expecting for some time. It was in anticipation of such news that certain investors in-vestors paid $2.50 a ahare for Colorado weeks and weeks ago. Naturally when their hopes wore realized the price of the stock went up to $2.60 a share. The experience is simply another demonstration that human nature is prone to discount the improvement in mines and frequently fre-quently exaggerates the effect of an expected discovery. Far be it from us throw cold water on the generous enthusiasm ot the apostles of Colorado, but let us not forget that there is competition com-petition in the mining market and that men will, in the long run, invest where they can get the most for their money. Following this rule they will figure out that a Bock Tunnel or Uncle Sam dividend In hand is worth more than a Colorado Mining dividend in the bush. Mr. John Dorn came back from Tintic with a large consignment of glittering generalities in regard to Lower Mammoth, Uncle Sam and May Day. There was just ono sample in the lot that showed printable values when subjected to news assays. That was that the Beck Tunnel Assure is suspected of making into Uncle Sam . ground. The supposition is not based on Burveys hut on the remarkable similarity of the ore mined from the two properties. At the same ue the Uncle Sam has the positive assurance of a connection with a shoot from the Yankee Con. Mr. Dern confirms' what has been said before in regard to Lower Mammoth; namely, that the lowest work- . ings are surpassing the upper levels in the quan-! quan-! tity and value of their product. Just now the 1700 lever is looked upon as the source of fut- ' ure dividends. At the close of the interview Mr. Dern demonstrated that there is a difference between be-tween him and May Day. When asked why May Day had closed down he closed up. fcyC tC Nowhere in the West have the laborers been more richly rewarded during the past two weeks than at Fairview and Ely. In the former camp " the Nevada Hills has opened a body of ore worth from $400 to $GO0O in the No. 4 tunnel, a strike that is of especial significance because of its testimony that the great ore bodies extend to the east. San Francisco has been so strongely impressed im-pressed by the showing at Fairview that the brokers of the Golden Gate have , been liberal bidders for Nevada Hills on the Salt Lake exchange. ex-change. The experience of the Ely Con. in its Brilliant shaft is taken as a sign that one place is about as good as another to sink a shaft at Ely. There was nothing very promising in the limestone where the Ely Con. began putting down the Brilliant, but when the lime capping was pierced at 345 feet the ore was found to be just as good as in the workings which have been commenced in an outcrop. The news of the week concerning Gold Mountain Moun-tain solves a problem that has puzzled mining circles ever since the Annie Laurio was thrown on the market through the medium of a sheriff's sale. The latest diapension is a big merger which includes the possessions of the Annie as well as a number of adjacent properties. The power behind the throne is Alfred Carr of New York, an extensive, but quiet Gold Mountain property owner, who bought in the Annie Laurie at forced sale for $270,000. It is said, and there is no reaeon to doubt it, that the combination will make the new company the greatest gold mining concern in Utah. What the plans of the promoters are no one seems to know. It Mr. Carr's former policy is followed the concern will be even a closer corporation than was the Annie Laurie, but to Utah will accrue the credit that will come from the active and successful exploitation ex-ploitation of the Gold Mountain region. Of the mining market for the week ending Wednesday afternoon perhaps the less said the bettor, but rash judgments are often misleading. A careful examination of the quotations proves that eleven of the most active stocks have ad-vanced ad-vanced while only three have declined. In most i cases the gains have been slight and there la nothing whatever to inspire the belief that a genuine gen-uine revival is at hand. Experts look for a gentle gen-tle rise and fall of the tide for some time to come. Those who trade should be satisfied with minimum profits. Nevada Hills closed 10 cents up at $4.45; Beck Tunnel 10 up at $1.80; Colorado Mining 15 up at $2.30; Victor 1 8-4 up at 11; Mountain Lake 9 up at 72; Seven Trough 4 up at 51; Lower Mammoth 2 1-2 up at $1.95 and Daly-Judge 10 up at $8.90. The unfortunates were Ingot, which reclined from 9 1-4 to 9; May Day from 27 1-2 to 27 and Unole Sam from 68 to 50. The rest of the list was unchanged. Sales aggregated 214, 258 shares for $133,880.35 and the ore and bullion settlements amounted to $610,000. |