The San Francisco call., 1907-01-12

of Southern Nevada mines were sold
Yesterday in this city in two sessions
of the San Francisco Stock and Ex-
change Board. Six-tenths of the whole
was disposed of at the regular session
Prices fell generally, although there
was a noteworthy exception in Com
bination Fraction. which went above
the mark set by the day before Some
other stocks advanced slightly, but
none sensationally.
The forenoon's proceedings were
marked with intense interest The
crowd surged In and out of the board
room. The sale of 10000 shares on
the preceding day and the rush with
which the business Of the brokers
started in yesterday morning, with a
promise of sales of another 1000, 600
shares before the closing, furnished
stimulus sufficient to keep interest on
edge AS on two or three preceding
days the curb sales after the board
meeting were attended by many.
People who had stocks in their hands
on which they could clear up a profit
sold their holdings largely and made
their gains, but the market felt the
effect and this was enough to give it
a backward tendency
Twenty-four thousand shares Of Red
Top Extension, 45,900 shares of Lone
Star, 14,900 shares of Adams, $4,000
shares of Atlanta, $1,000 shares of
Black Ants, $4,000 shares of Black
Butte Extension. $4,000 shares of
Black Rock, $4,000 shares of Blue Bell,
10, 400 shares of Blue Bull. .12,700 shares
of Combination Fraction, 14,200 shares
of Conqueror. 25,500 shares of Dia-
mondfeld B. 3. Extension, 32,10O shares
of Diamondfield Triangle, 40, 1000 shares
of Empire $4,000 shares of Great
Bend. $4,000 shares of Mayne and
24,600 shares of Red Top Exten-
sion were among the large blocks that
up total showing Of 1,017. 900 shares,
/ 1000 shares less than on Thursday.
Mohawk dropped in the final quo
tations back to $17.S7 bid; Goldffeld
Consolidated Mines to 1915; Daisy to
/ SO asked: Goldfield Mining to s1.75;
Jumbo Extension to S1s6: Great Bend
to s1.35. Combination Fraction ad-
vanced to $6.12 as the final bids The
] Tonopah stocks were as steady as a
hitching post. not moving onward or
/ backward materially.
The Bullfrogs, in some instances, ad-
vanced. Homestake Consolidated sold
4 for S135, as compared with S125 the
preceding day. Tramp Consolidated
was sold for s1.S5, an advance of s
Z y.
advanced to $1.45; National Bank to SO
cents; Amethyst to So cents.
The Manhattans kept at about the
prices of Thursday at the close. Thirty
cents was asked for Granny. Gold
Wedge dropped from 20 cents to IS
cents. Manhattan Consolidated de-
clined from SO cents to 80 cents. Dex-
ter brought bids of rs cents as against
! "a cents on Thursday. The sales of
Diamondfield Triangle left the price the
same as on Thursday night, namely,
] 50 cents. Jack Pot dropped from so
to $3.50.
No shares of Mohawk were sold 9th
er shares of the merger were in evil
dence in the transactions. Goldheld
Consolidated Mines started in with
! sales of 469 shares at $40, and after
that shuffied up and down in style suf-
ficiently wobbly to suit any one with a
taste for stock gambling. One thou
sand shares were sold at S9.S715, 200 at
! $1O.12h 500 at 1915, 100 at s10.25, 100
at $40. This ended the deals in this
stock at the regular board
At the informal session Goldfield
Consolidated Mines took several more
whirls in the arena of bulls and bears.
/ Then $500 shares sold for s10.1215
then, with a continued downward ten
dency. go shares at $9.S715 500 shares
at 1915 and 500 shares at s9.62hs
Goldfeld Kewanos sold from s1.75 for
| 1900 shares in the morning to s1.90 for
! 500 shares in the afternoon.
There is a possibility that a merger
of mines in Diamonfield district will be
/ the next move. A rumor that this is
about to be effected was circulated
about the Mining Stock Board yester-
day. The large sales of Diamondfield
stocks were attributed to this rumor.
Five new companies of Southern Ne
vada have listed their stocks in the last
two days These are the Manhattan
Astoria Company. with 100000 shares
in the Manhattan district, with w. H
Metson, f. H. Hall. George H. Siebe
J. f. Parr. Fl. E. Averill, W. D. O'Brien
William NJ. Pheison and c. D. Balvin
as directors: the Illinois Consolidated
Mining Company, in the Bullfrog dis
trict, with 100000 shares, and with
F. S. Gray. r. J. Donovan, H Newburgh
J. r. Foster, F. P. Kelly, P. T. Bennett
w c. Brumield and George h. Strobe
as directors; the fGoldfeld Happy Huncfl
Mining and Milling Company, in the
| Goldfield district. with 100000 shares,
and with Z. z. Overfeld. f. A. Harper
T. J. Della Hunt, A. M. Brout and T. p
Skipper as directors; the Eddie Cold
field Mining Company, with mines
twelve miles east of Goldfield. with
900. 600 shares, and with E. E. Over
field, John Frasier, John Rouse, Peter
Proest and l.. 3. Longworthy as di-
rectors, and the Florence Goldfield Red
i King Claim Leasing Company, with