The San Francisco call., 1907-01-04
Sales are Heavier
but Prices Move
Very Little

The first consignment of highs grade
gold ore from tie Mohawk mine at Cold
field arrived yesterday, when three car
loads, valued at from $500, 900 to- 81, 100,-
900. were delivered to the Seiby Smelt-
/ ing Company.s works by G. H Hayes
the senior partner of Hayes and Mon
4 nette, whose lease on the Mohawk ex-
| pires January Z. Accompanying Hayes
was M. Fl. Downer of Downer Broth
ers. assayers. who will supervise the
Hayes-Monette. interests at the smelt-
er during the process of sampling the
| ore An armed guard to protect. the
three Wells Fargo cars carrying the
fifty tons Of ore was feature of the
trip.
i 1t was not until after two cars had
been filled, sealed and guarded that
Goldfield knew that a shipment of the
ore was in progress. 20 guard against
possible looting by desperadoes that
lurk in every mining camp, every pre-
| caution was taken to keep the pro-
| posed shipment secret. The cars left
| the Mohawk Tuesday morning and ar
rived at the smelter yesterday after
noon.
During the six days it will take TO
4 sample the ore representatives of
| Hayes and Monette Will assist the
| smelter representatives After the
sampiing is done the price for the
dirt will be paid and the gold will
then become the property of the Selby
| company.
Sales of Goldfeld, Tonopah, Bullfrog
| and Manhattan stocks were brisk in
the local exchange yesterday. AT the
regular sale 5000 shares of Adams, 5000
shares of Wonder. 10000 shares of
| Amethyst, 1000 shares of Atlanta, 49,
600 shares of Blue Bull. $4,000 shares
of Columbia Mountain, 5000 shares of
| Congress. $4,000 shares of Great Bend,
| 5000 shares, of Great Bend Extension,
$4,000 shares of Gold Wedge, 5000
shares of Jim Butler, $4,000 shares of
Lone Star 5000 shares of Manhattan
Central, 5000 shares of Manhattan Lit
tie Joe, 1000 shares of Mayne, $500
shares Of Original Bullfrog, $500 shares
of Pine Nut, 1900 shares of Red Top
Extension and 12,500 shares of Yankee
| Girl were disposed of and a less num-
Der of shares of other stocks were
needed The total sales Of the regular
| board were in excess of 250,00 shares.
At the informal sale more than 2o0,-
1 600 shares additional were taken IN.
With few exceptions the prices Were
not much affected by the volume OF
business. Blue Bell, for instance, with
sales of 10000 shares in the regular
hoard. brought 20 cents and at the in
/ formal with 5000 shares more touched
1 81 cents. Diaimondfield Triangle, sell
| ing $500 shares in the forenoon at 40
| to Al cents, was bought at the same
prices after the cafl, with 1000 addi-
tional shares purchased. Goidneld
| Consolidated Mines shares were sold in
small quantity only, 125 at the regular
session from $3.50 to s725. and 800
shares in the afternoon at s7.l2h 70
| s7.25.
Only 35OO shares of Laguna at s14o,
only 500 of Goldfeld Mining of Ne
vada at s1.4o. no shares OF Red Top,
and Jumbo was also conspicuous from
its complete absence from the sales
lists of the day
Four new mining companies were
! listed yesterday. by the San Francisco
Stock and Exchange Board. These ana
khe members OF. their boards OF direct
ors follow:
Company of the Chloride La Plata dis
trict, with 100000 shares, at 81 900
| 900 capitalization: directors, w. l.. Bell.
A. NJ Carter. B. F Curier.
| ing district 100000 shares and 81
| 900 900 capitalization; directors. E. A.
Colburn, w. w. Kirby, j. A. Wright,
B. L. Couch and n. A. darcy. -.
trict, s1.oo0.o0o capitalization, divided
into 1000. 600 shares; directors. w A.
stevens Y. C,rnmipg Sndpr; ao9 and Albert l..
Pinte Manhattan Mining company,
Manhattan district, 100000 shares,
| G. A. weyer j. Z. Kerr. f. j. Young,
w f. Shultz and G. S. Buckman.
The feeling among the local stock
brokers regarding the settlement OF
the strike at Goldfield is hopeful, re-
gardIess of rumors that the disagree
ment may be prolonged A PROPOSE
tion that may meet with favor was
reported to be in process of forma-
| ton, but no one had the facts in the
| board.
Among the Comstock stocks yester-
day the conspicuous figure was Bel
cher, which advanced from 92 cents,
the closing price of Saturday, to S1.05.
Only 22O0 shares were sold. Closing
bids for some of the Southern Navada
mining stocks were as follows:
Tonopah district-Belmont $6 Bos-
ton Tonopah, IS cents Golden Anchor,
43 cents: Jim Butler, $1.25; Little Tono-
pah, 81. so: MacNamara, so cents; Mon
tana, s4.Os; North Star. 40 cents; Tono-
pah Extension, s5.S7; Tonopah of Ne
vada, s19; West End, s1.95.
Goldfeld Observation-Disclosures. go cents;
Blue Bell. 20 cents; Blue Bull, 3S cents;
Booth 83 cents; Columbia, 90 cents;
Columbia Mountain, s1.07; Combination
| Fraction, S3.52 Daisy, $2.35; Esmer-
aida, 26 cents Florence. s3.47; Frances
Mohawk Sc cents; Goldfeld Console
dated Mines, 1897; Goldfeld Mining
of Nevada, $1.s5; Great Bend, 81 cents;
Jumbo, $40: Jumbo Extension. $1.S5;
Laguna, $40: Mohawk, sl4; Nevada
Goidield, 43 cents; Orc. 46 cents; Pot
latch. AZ cents; Red Hills. "a cents;
Red Top, 1920; Sandstorm, 50 cents;
Simmerone, 35 cents; Spearhead Gold,
60 cents; st. Ives, 83 cents.
Bullfrog district Amethyst, 60
cents; Bonnie Clare, 2S cents. :, Bull
frog Gold King, 40 cents: Bullfrog
Mining of Nevada, 39 cents; National
Bank, SIS cents; Bullfrog Victor. 81
cents; Gold Bar, s1.32; Golden Sceptre,
55 cents: Homestake Consolidated.
20; Mayf1ower Consolidated, 65 cents;
Montgomery Mountain, As cents Orig
inal Bullfrog, 20 cents; Tramp Consoli-
dated. SLIP.
Manhattan district-Indian Camp.
s1.15; Little Grey. so cents; Manhattan
Broncho, 20 cents; Manhattan Consoli-
dated, Ss1.02; Dexter, 75 cents; Frisco,
| 26 cents; Golden Gate, 20. cents; Man
haitian Mining of Nevada. 20 cents;
Manhattan woiftone, 35 cents; Memo
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