The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18
in the Southern Nevada
Properties Reaches Great Size

Just at O'Clock yesterday afternoon
a bell was sharply rung. and decisively.
Its noise broke in upon a din of shout
ing and upon a scene of struggling.
gesticulating, pushing, hauling and eN-
element.
Obedient as children when moni-
tors bell rings in a school, a lot Of
husky mining stock brokers let go
their holds on one another, stopped
their shouts and from what seemed
to be a collection of madmen was
evolved. simply by the suspension of
active business. a group of sane be-
ings who smiled and joked.
All this signified that the greatest
week TO date in the number of mining
shares sales in the history of what
viii long be remembered as the boom
in Southern Nevada mining stocks of
1906 was at an end. Ten million shares
were sold between Monday morning
and Saturday at p m. The daily
sessions lasted from $50 a. IN. to 2
p. m. Twenty-seven hours, therefore,
were devoted to getting 10000. 600 Ne
vada shares into the hands of pur-
chasers. the time including daily
periods devoted to the reading and cor
rection of the records of sales in the
board of the San Francisco Stock EX-
change.
Throughout a strenuous week crowds
have poured in and out Of low wooden
stock exchange, the roof of which is
pierced with skylights and side windows
to admit the sun and air. They have
included every sort of human being
able to steal an hour or less from daily
avocations. The structure was built
for the San Francisco Stock Exchange.
1t is a temporary affair on Bush street.
between Kearny and Montgomery
fronted by offices that extend along a
! m % hna nd
room in the rear, in which brokers in
mining stocks transact business when
not in the board
A central space is hemmed in by a
palisade. capped by broad wooden
slab at just about the right height for
spectators to lean and write upon
Crowding close to this rail multitude
has viewed the interior of the exchange
each of the past six days and many
days preceding.
Scattered along the rail and using it
as writing desk sock brokers who
are not on the floor have filled up
books with memoranda of sales. and
with them the most democratic assem-
blage conceivable has hobnobbed and
made entries of prices at which stocks
were bought or sold.
CALLS ORDER FROM CHAOS
Presiding over a miniature pande-
monium daily, a white haired and
broad shouldered man. attired in gray,
has served to bring order out of chaos
This Individual is Joseph l. King. the
caller of the board. BY his side has
sat another stoutly built man, dressed
in dark clothes, writing almost inces-
sanity in huge book, the volume be-
ing the record of sales, caught with
wonderful alertness and accuracy while
the brokers filled the air with babel
of cries having meaning only to the
habitual attendants.
Secretary Landon is the writer of the
daily records In a period of years his
pen has traced the facts relating to the
transfer of mining securities amount
ing to hundreds of millions of dollars
in value.
sharp at o'clock last Monday
morning King started the events of
the week. Instantly strident cries
arose as the Comstocks, which are
first sold every day, were offered.
Then after the list was read came a