The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-28
LIVELY WEEK IN
MINING STOCKS
Record Was Ais, 1864 Shares and
S2I7,80093.
s0ME SHARP ADVANCES
YANKEE CON. AND MARTHA
WASHINGTON THE STARS.
soME SHARP ADVANCES


The week on the stock exchange
closed with a record OF S2l7. sG0.s3 worth
of business, represented in the trans
fer of 415.664 shares of stock The fore
moon sessions accounted for 2sO. 7S4
shares and $I40,ie1.s1 of the total cash
value, while the afternoon portion
ameunted to 124.ssO shares and ST.
$685.
1 As was the case in the previous
weeks trading Yankee Consolidated
proved the Chief attraction. having
made a clean gain of 81 a share
Daly-West proved much stronger and
closed the week with sale at S36 fat.
Daily picked up little also and did
quite q business for that rather in
active security at 81 to SOS.
Ajax suffered a decline that seemed
hard to check during the first half of
the week, but on Thursday a reaction
set in, and from sl-os, the opening fig
ure on that day, 1t climbed back and
closed the week strong at $1131z.
Grand Central was very weak the
greater part of the week, and business
in its shares was correspondingly light.
It closed with a sale yesterday at $685.
as against $3.50 one week since.
- Lower Mammoth has also been dis
appointing, having touched $4.22 on
Thursday. 1t showed much better form
yesterday however, and sold up to
$4.51. closing 4 cents lower.
May Day had a tussle with the bears
for two or three days and on We6nes-
day sold down to So cents. 1t closed
the week at SO cents.
Consolidated Mercur started off Mon
day with sales at 1885 and s3.70. The
price bid then began to recede and not
a, single transfer has been recorded
since. Closing quotations yesterday
We're $3.50 and $3.4s-
Martha washington has held second.
r.1~a q
week. and with a, very lively demand
has advanced a clean 10 cents a share.
Last week it closed on q sale at 23H
cents, dropped back to 20ss cents on
Monday and then began to climb slow
~, but. surely, until yesterday when
il touched 35 cents and closed one
eighth of a cent less. 1t is scheduled
by its friends TO go to 40 cents during
the coming week lo
The Swanseass have held steady. and
Sacramento has more than held it's
own. Star Consolidated and Silver
Shield have been. uRder the ban every
day and neither seemed to have a
friend in the world. The former is
suffering from manipulation and the
latter has hit lean streak in the
mine. Improvements in both are
looked for in the near future. a, t
Boss Tweed is showing good form
and is becoming quite a lively card.
Ben Butler has been rather weak, but
a most excellent record in development
and production is noted, and its
friends are predicting a substantial
advance in its. quotations.
Richmond & Anaconda, since the sale
of the Humbugs (which ibsadjoins, to
the Franklin syndicate. has taken on
new life and sales were made Friday
at 291s cents to 3o1z cents.
Tetro has been doing business at
cents to 1015 cents, and West Morning
Glory has been active at 31k cents to
4 cents. It is also marked out by the
talent for an advance. ~
Dalton & Lark took a squirt the first
OF the week, but it soon fell back
again, and frem q high mark OF 10
cents. on Monday the best offer yester-
day was S cents.
/. Tesora Eagle & Blue Bell. Dexter
and several of he smaller priced Sc
curities were steady On the whole, but
none of them showed unusual strength.
Yesterdays Business
Trading yesterday was very lively,
with 81 436 shares selling for S2S. 6f5-25.
Martha Washington sold from 32Ss
cents up TO 80 cents, closing one eighth
of a cent less. In all, 22,500 Shares We're
sold Century Jumped In and sold AT
sl31, $1.S9 and $1.29, while Boss Tweed
did business at II cents to 1874 cents
The other shares. dealt in an held UP
nicely and the session closed on the fol-
lowing quotations: t-- r