Show SALT LAKE HEWS ON THE EXCHANGE the manipulations on the stock exchange occupied only a short urns yesterday orders viere filled for which 1901 was paid the market was steady prices were no gains were recorded J daly judge sold at bell turned over at 51 lower mammoth was reduced to 27 selling asoo uncle sam con sold at 39 as were disposed of new york sold a at 52 14 1 4 and another at an advance of 14 1 4 of a cent daly floated at seller five and may day got stronger selling at 7 58 5 8 at 7 34 3 4 PRAISES UTAH MINES J W Langley ihas returned to tono pa hafter avisia to san francisco and to his old home here lie nas become a member of the san francisco stock exchange and a resident of tonopah To but he still thinks well of salt lake he has the following to say in the tonopah bonanza in a recent issue salt lake said he is growing very rapidly and since the opening of the dark road has made rapid strides in tho same direction as los angeles which has bad a most wonderful growth the mines of utah are showing up splendidly this year and the conner camp of bingham is working more than men with the assurance that as many more will be added within the next year bingham in the near future will be as famous a copper camp as butte and will add hundreds to the wealth of utah sim lake feels very good toward tonopah To as many of her best people have moved to nevada and in most cases have reaped the reward of success that she has so generously distributed tri buted UTAH COPPER COMPANY A meeting of the shareholders of utah copper company has been called for september 5 at jersey city for the purpose of ratifying the bond issue of voted by the directors at a recent meeting it is the intention of the shareholders to increase the capitalization of the company from to and give the bondholders bond holders the option of converting he bonds into shares of stock at the ratio of 20 per share at any time during the first five years of the life of ithe bonds or fifty shares of the par value of 10 each for each 1000 bond the stock of the utah copper company was commanding 21 per share yesterday which is an advance for the securities since the announcement of the intention of the company to make this bond issue NUGGETS A lot of ores marketed by the of a portion of the majestic mines at show values of 25 per cent copper 70 ounces silver and 3 gold per ton having completed his examination of the smelter plant of the montreal and bp ton at greenrod Green wod B C W C thomas ha s returned je turned to the newhouse offices in alila city to filo his report sinding ha been resumed from the foot level in the silver king consolidated soli dated mine at park city the water having been drawn off with the new pump alia t was installed W jl ridge who is one of the for operators in the goldfield country who has amassed a fortune in the space of a few months has stop ped oscr in the city on his way back to his batee in kansas city mo allver lead ore of fine grade is being hoisted at the american flag mine at park cuy the mine is free of water in the lower levels the ores that have been blocked out average more than per ton the pioneer sampler received yes berday four cars of ore from bang ham two cars from stockton and two cars from alta taylor brunton re one car of ore from idaho five cars from nevada and three cars from tinus OFFER OF MEDIATION IN TELEGRAPH FRS STRIKE governor johnson writes to dents of northern railroad offer ing to appoint committee of arbitration NO HOPE FROM HI LL new york aug 9 james J hill sets at rest today the reports said to have been spread among the striking telegraphers of the great northern and northern pacific roads that he would intervene in chelc behalf in the contention with the operating officers of the road mr bijl said in regard to the case of the strikers that the men had been dismissed because they would not obey orders men continued mr hill who will plot to embroil a railroad and its employed emp loyes just at the begin ehg ot a season when they know a heavy movement of traffic is expected as at present with the approach of crop movements do not deserve to be on the payrolls of any road they are positions of trust and the plotters arc not fit to hold them I 1 will see to it that any of thoss who have been active in about this strike will never again enter the employ of the road i st paul aug 9 the first definite step looking toward the arbitration of the struggle which has been in progress tor over a week between the great northern and northern pacific railways and the order of railway was taken today when gov john A johnson addressed letters to president 1 I J hill and hovard elliott of the railways and president H B parham of the telegraphers arg ing a settlement of tha trouble and offering his services as a mediator the exact terms of the letters written by gov johnson are not known as the governor preferred that be given out by the recipients if they saw fit in a general way however the governor outlined to the associated press what was contained in the letters he called the officials attention to the tact that the present strike was working a hardship in various communities throughout the state and appealed to them to take speedy steps to secure an adjustment of the existing troubles to this end he tendered the good offices of thea chief executive saying that he stood ready to appoint a to consider the differences between the contending parties or in any other way to assist them to come to some agreement that would permit the roads to move their traffic without delays and inconveniences that are now said to exist gov johnson was prompted to take this action by numerous letters he had received from commercial alons and citizens of the state urging him to take some measure to end the struggle the governor stated that some of the letters he bad received declared that business in sections of the state was almost paralyzed by the condition which now prevail both president hill and president elliott are now in the east although the former is expected to reach S paul some time his week president perham ot the telegraphers has stated on several occasions that he Is milling to submit his caso to any fair minded tribunal there were no other developments in the situation today both fides are still claiming that conditions are improving from their standpoint with each passing day general superintendent slade in a statement issued today said so far as the great northern was concerned the strike is a closed incident the northern pacific officials did not give out any official statement today saying that conditions had so improved that there was no longer a necessity for a daily bulletin on the other hand at strike headquarters say that with very few exceptions their men are standing loyally by their officers offer of mediation S paul aug 9 governor johnson has written to president james J hill of the groat northern president howard elliot ot the northern pacific and president of the order of railway telegraphers calling their attention to the great inconvenience the public Is suffering by reason of the strike of telegraphers and oti fering the service executive de apartment part ment as a in the bringing about of an amicable settlement the letter was mailed late today and will not reach tha persons addressed until tomorrow governor johnson told the associated press that he would prefer that a copy of the letter be given out by one of the addressees dres sees but indicated that the gist of its contents were as stated above |