Show SILVER KING ANNUAL the stockholders or the silver king meet and transact most important easiness tiit ontario company resumes dividends anil the daly soon to do A 1000 root for the sold a good vater auppl the adjourned meeting 0 tl e stockholders of the balver xang mining coin pany was held monday last it the corn pany a office in I 1 ark city shares out of the being represented the business transacted consisted in listening to the secretary s report ot the business transacted td during the past fiscal year the election of a board of directors and the changing of tl e date for holding annual meetings it being fixed on tl e third monday in january of each year instein of the first mon day is in it e pasa the secretary s re port was very exhaustive giving a de tailed statement of the total of ore mined and sold w hat the cost of mining and the average price per ton for which it bold the gumbei of feet ot dead work performed and its cost n fact it was a complete account of the year a business and showed a profit to the stockholders of besides the amount that went to the contingent fund following is the directory chos en for the ensuing year david thomas W V rice james ivers and azra thompson the officers of the are dent thomas kearns vice president W V alice treasurer and alter acott secretary 1 to the stockholders meetie g tl e old directors declared tl e usual monthly dividend of 37 pal able on february all in all the balver company is in most excellent shape and has entered upon another year of successful operation thursday mornings bait lahe her aid brought the information that the ontario company had resumed tl e payment of dividends and that one of 10 cents a share had been declared payable on january the herald says further tl at this is the first dividend paid by the ontario since october 1892 at which time its alvid nd account had grown to the magnificent sum of 13 binca then the slump in silver put a check on this grand producer and aside from paying its running expenses and corn plating its three mile drain tunnel it has been enjoying a long sleep and its stock in consequence dropped from 40 to in value it is generally be lieveld that the daly will pay a dividend next month when another old standby all be beard from again e are reliably informed that the ontario has a surplus of over in its treasury and that its monthly earnings amount to something more than and that so long as the mine and the market continue as they are at present will be kept up thus giving elders of Us stock a fair percentage on their money and keeping the company s finances in shape to meet any urgent call that may be made upon its re sources tunnel through beyond io 3 shaft and the heavy ex pense of pumping done avay with th tie mine fairly productive and ath a strong treasury there h little question but that ontario stock will ln show higher prices and sted climb back towards the old scale from whence it fell in the early days of the theys treasury Is also reported by the same authority to be in a very healthy condition and that as soon as the drain tunnel is through and new levels can be opened up that property will show increased earnings CASH CROSSCUTS ocar the energetic acott hill 1 ro caroe out from bait lale US morning to look after im porta location of four new claims mr ryd vail expects to prove next summer acott hilll la ati aud tatt lie has a good share ot it in his ground the station in the big tunnel of the d group 1 as been cally completed comil eted and ground has been broken for the proposed deep shaft to be sunk from the tunnel leal huper lawrence is now satisfied that the right courna has been adopted to make the cumberland prove itself i paying mine the new cable for tl e big incline at 11 e morgan mine arrived monday as liken to the mine ind is now in position tl e morning shift li iv ing gone to work eloping ore tl is morning work on the new hoisting plant Is being rushed vigorously by flub contractor I 1 J heggs and tl e structure Is fast assuming shape M L houston ono ot the crescent keisers has sold ills entire interests in that property to IS I 1 bauer the con being private though under stood to be a handsome figure as mr houston has a good body 0 ore in sight 1 esades a large tonnage broken mr houston la suffering from a bad attack of rheumatism and left thursday afternoon aft ernon for hot arkansas At kansas where he hopes to relief run predicts the will turn up in a few months in charge of some rich gold producer at cripple creeds creels or some other color ido sold camp heraver he rever he goes the writer wishes him success iho writer was blown some rock yesterday which it lg claimed the 1 at wm people are throwing over the d imp ai d 0 which there Is quite a I 1 billhy streak in the bottom of the big ir dine hile no assay ot atie mater lal hig been made so tar as we know t e rock looks anther nod a chemical test anide by U S shows the presence ot considerable ail ver and that gentleman MS no besl tancy in saying that the rock will show in alie neiel 0 forty ounces in aller to the ton the 1 always did look well even at the brass roots and it Is only i milter 0 development when it will become a producer A deil Is on foot whereby sever lake parties will obtain a lease and bond on three of the kentucky group ot claims it e ground having been thoroughly examined during the past week at als writing it Is impossible to state the terms of the contract or the names of the men nho will take hold ot the properly but that the deal will go through there Is very little doubt 1 he developments in the creole mine are such as to ie id miny to believe that a reson ably deep shaft will prove that claims five six and seven 0 the ien tucky group contain large bodies of ore oar informant says it the lease is obtained work will be commenced as early in the spring is the weather and snow will permit A trip up woodside canyon develops the fact that col h is not as yet made tl e first move towards breaking ground for the deep shaft he was going to sink on the mayflower and ladies dram group of claims at the same time the writer is informed that when the snow ceases to trouble ap that way a different scene will be presented since placing the above in type an advertisement has been re calved from and asking for bids for sinking a shaft 1000 feet deep on alie dream claim adjoining the balver mug on the north the advertisement which will be found elsewhere in this issue is con urination of the information contained in the foregoing lines froma T daly who has been in the I 1 ark several days looking after matters at the dily est the writer learns that serious trouble has been expert encee in securing a sufficient water supply with which to operate the new mill ben the pipe line was put in last fall the lakes from which the supply is obtained had to be drained rather low to allow alie placing of the pipe and the erection of dams to in crease the capacity ot alia lakes which have not since recovered tl e loss and will not until the snow begins to melt in the spring this leaves the volume of water quite low and has with the mill th it it could only be run for an hour or so it a time fo over come tie difficulty diff culty and furnish a sup ply tl at will operate the mill for twelve hours a large link holding 50 gal ions was completed yesterday and tilled during the night morning the mill started on a regular grind and no more trouble Is apprehended from that source the mine Is looking well and will increase its output very materially during the present year ara following are the ore shipments from the mackintosh sampler for the present week anchor concentrates 33 anchor first class 13 VV alte kock total pounds |