The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-24

The stock and mining exchange
scored a whitewash yesterday and
the call closed without the transfer of
a single share of stock. Still the at
tendance was larger in the lobby and
there were more brokers in the pit
than has been the case for the past
three months
The failure tc record any transfers
does not indicate that there was any
lack OF interest by any means, for
the bidding was quite active. in some
Of the stocks, and some good advances
were noted and at the close it was
evident that the market for the week
would be 4 counterpart of that of the
week before, only that the dealings will
probably be larger and greater gains
will be noted.
Ajax suffered a slight decline in the
bidding yesterday. but in the offerings
it was very strong and above the
closing quotations of Saturday last
Bullion-Bec which is one of the most
popular stocks on the market at he
present time, continued to advance and
there was a lively rush for the stock
but the higher that il went in the bid
ding the more the holders of this Sc
curity held off, and at the close a good
there seems to be a lively race just
now between Bullion-Beck and Mercur
TO see which viii make the most rapid
gains, and this is a peculiar rivalry
from the fact that the former is strict
" a silver stock, While the latter is
gold and nothing but gold. DAILY and
DAILY West were about stationary and
Yer they were very firm at the figures
named below Galena and Geyser were
both inactive at about the quotations
Of the previous call; while Four Aces
made slight declines in the bids, but
advances in the asking. Mercur, which
has been creating quite furore in the
pit during the past two weeks, was
very strong at $3.50 in THE bidding, and
in the offerings the stock was tossed
up TO the $725 mark, at which figures
the stock was very strong at the close
Mammoth was a little weak among the
buyers, but holders stood our for bet
ter prices. as they are firm in the be-
lief that as soon as the company gets
its new machinery in place the stock
will advance much more rapidly than
it has declined, and when the reac-
ton takes place it is the opinion among
the better posted hat this paper will
go to a higher point than ever, as it is
stated that never in the history of the
mine were there such immense bodies of
pre- blocked out as at the present time
The bears seemingly had it in for Sun
shine which closed weak with a bid of
only 81, which is the lowest bid that
has been made for this stock since the
opening of the exchange.
The unlisted stocks were also inact-
i've as far as transfers were concerned,
yet they were strong and in good de-
,nand at the quotations given below
Swansea was stationary in the bidding
but in the offerings the price jumped
up to $3.50 and it is confidently ex-
peeted by the holders of this stock
that it Will touch So by the middle of
December. South Swansea was in
equally good demand. but ike its run
ming mate an advance was wanted over
Saturdays closing quotations. Dalton
was quite firm at , cents bid and Az
asked. while Buckeye was about sta
tionary at the figures of the previous
call.
There was some sparring when North
ern Light was called and an effort was
made to corral this stock at figures
below what II has been selling for dur
ing the past few days. The effort was
futile, however, and the stock closed
firm at 1872 cents bid and AZ asked.
The closing quotations were as fol-
lows:
CALL OF LISTED STOCKS.