The San Francisco call., 1906-12-29

Belcher mining stock on the Com
stock list led in the interest in the
San Francisco Stock and Exchange
Board yesterday. Fifteen hundred
shares were taken in at prices ranging
from 55 to SIS cents a share. Brokers
smiled, and the story was current that
the insiders who succeeded in wrest-
ing the control of Yellow Jacket from
bob" Morrow a little while since
were pursuing the same line of tactics
to get Belcher from his grasp. So the
game was watched quietly. The 1900
shares were gathered so unobtrusive-
ly that the outsiders did not see that
there was anything unusual in pro-
gress.
During the forenoon session Belcher
was selling at Sc cents a share for 200
shares. Then followed a breathing
spell before any more Belcher was
taken from the auction block. When
another buy was made ii ran at the
rate of 81 cents. only 1 cent more
share for 300 shares. A sale of 200
shares followed at So cents and then
the regular session of the board closed,
with Belcher offered at SO cents, but
the bidders were coy and would not
raise their limit above 5S.
When it came to the informal ses-
sion some appreciation of what was
going on was dimly manifested to the
brokers who did not see earlier. Five
hundred shares went for SO cents
share; zoo shares at so cents; 100
at 5S and then 200 at SO cents, jump
of five points. AT the close C. cents
was asked and 50 cents bid.
Belcher sales made the Comstock
market look out of proportion Eleven
hundred shares of Chollar were taken
in from 19 to 81 cents a share. This
amount, added to the Belchers, left
only $500 shares in sales to represent
all the other Comstock stocks COM
bined. yellow Jacket, having been
taken in by the anti-Morrow interest,
had no visible reason for activity, but
100 shares We're sold nevertheless.
Some other Comstocks sold in lots
that made totals as follows: Bullion,
500 shares at 29 to 80 cents. Caledonia,
500 shares at As to 46 cents; Con.
Virginia, 200 at s1.25; Crown Point.
zoo at 81 cents; Gould & Curry, 200 at
$1.05; Ophir, 100 at S3.25; Sierra Ne
vada, zoo at rs to 76 cents; Silver Hill,
800 at 81 cents.
The Goldfeld market was stronger
at the closing than at the opening
The strike was still on at Go1dffeld
and there was no immediate prospect
of a change in conditions of which
the brokers were informed. There
were no large changes in the prices
through the day. GoIdfield Consoli-
dated Mines sold at s6.S71k at the reg
ular session for 900 shares. Later in
the day 1850 shares went for the same
price and then 300 for 81. The closing
price was down to 1915. The holders
of the shares of the companies that
have been merged in the Goldfeld
Consolidated Mines were not strongly
in evidence in the number of shares
sold. No Jumbo was In the list of
sales. only 1000 Red Top at s3.45 on
the informal session and 100 Mohawk
at 1880. The quotations at the close
were reported as follows: Jumbo
s345 bid; Laguna, $3.50; Mohawk
s13.37; Goldfeld Mining of Nevada
SIPS; Red Top, $40.
Closing bids for Jim Butler were
$1.27; Belmont, s5.12; Little Tonopah,
$3.50; MacNamara, SO cents; Montana,
SO; West End, s1.90; Booth, Sc cents;
Columbia Mountain, sI.05: Combina-
tion Fraction, $3.50; Daisy, $2.17; Sill
yer Pick, s1.25: ST. Ives, 50 cents;
Homestake Consolidated. s1.3O; Tramp
! Consolidated, SLIP; Round Noun
tain, 81.