The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-28
PRICES NOW ANDA YEAR AGO
BETTER MARKET AND BETTER
PRICES PREDICTED.
Years Business on ,change.

With only three days to hear from,
the years business on the Salt Lake
Stock q Mining exchange closed yes
terday with the sale of II CAS- shares of
stock for S3.999.5e. the totals for the
year, as shown IN the table printed
above, being 20.S4S. 6S2 shares and s11.-
So, 2.es. figures that indicate. with the
next three days business added, e.
100000 shares and $12 000, 900.
TO illustrate the difference in the
market quotations yesterday, as COM
pared with exactly one year ago. the
Closing price. bid and asked, for each
of those days are given in the table
below. The year has been one of wide
fluctuations, the bulls and the bears
each getting good run for their
/ money. To the brokerage fraternity.
particularly the daring, speculative
Z ement in il, the year has been a
rather disastrous one. During the year
previous it was entirely different, as a
rule. The change has been due to the
fact that the public has not specialized
/ as heavily during the past twelve
months as it did before. AS a result
trading has been largely professional
with the public unloading and the
| broker loading up.
/ A sense of relief accompanies the
/ dying gasps of the old year and ia
all quarters a feeling is prevalent that
/ 1903 will witness great activity in the
/ mining share market and give every
body chance to make money. There
/ is hardly a listed stock in either the
investment or speculative column, sell
! ing for either dollars or cents, that
is not worth more money than what
it is quoted at today. and the con-
sentative operator and broker are each
predicting better prices and a much
steadier market.
Several good stocks have been added
to the lists during the year and sew
/ listing committee of the exchange to
come into the fold during the next few
months. Among the new ones, Park
City has contributed the Daly-Judge,
| New York Bonanza and the Wabash;
Big Cottonwood the Black Bess, and
1 Bingham the United States. These are
] all first properties in their : re-
/ spective classes and every one of them
can be counted upon to give good &C
! count of itself
Among the old favorites,s a great
many have suffered serious declines
some of them for good reasons, others
for no apparent reason at all. A few,
very few, have scored advances, while
| a small number of others have main
| tanned a fairly even keel.
/ To go into detail of the ups and
downs of each performer could serve
no particular purpose. The reader who
has followed the market is perfectly
familiar with the conditions that have
prevailed. When he compares the fig
ures given in the quotation lists be-
How he will have no difficulty in call
ing to mind what has caused the rise
or fail in each. For that purpose the
figures win prove interesting.
Yesterdays session Of the exchange
was very quiet. The holiday spirit wa:
rampant among the members who
made a pretense at participating, and
while little business was done, good
feeling filled the air. The record Of
closing quotations and those of one
year ago, together with the sales made
during the single call, follows: