Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-21
WEEKS REVIEW 0F TIE BOSTON CURB
 MARKET
TRADING IS DULL AND OUTSIDE SUPPORT IN BUYING IS
 DECREASING
CONDITION Of METAL MARKET
SEVERAL ARIZONA, NEVADA AND UTAH COMPANIES SHOW I'M
 PROVED CONDITIONS

The Boston Curb market is about as dull as at any period of the year, hay ing dwindled largely to ro0m.trad- ing affair, with but little outside sup port in buying. In it's general aspects 1t is acting in sympathy with the larger exchange, which has bad case of md summer doldrums.
 The Mollie Gibson Copper company, which was recently listed in the un- qualified department, has since been ac- little public interest in the stock, which has been selling between 3l and 3f.
 La Rose has continued strong all the week on good buying, coming evident ly from insiders. It established on Tuesday the new record price of 7l6, with dividend off. The opinion in Bos ton is that this stock is undoubtedly buy. 1t has been announced that the La Rose management has arranged Tor the sale of it's ore dumps, from which a conservative estimate, based on trial tests of the pre- places the net yield from this source at S300.000, equivalent to quarterly dividend on the outstanding capital. The mines are working POO men and 24 drills are working double shift. On the property west of the railroad track, in a section which has not been prospected before 10 any extent, two new silver veins have been uncovered. The ore ship ments to date amount to about 1,000,- O00 pounds.
 The reason for the continued weak ness in First National Copper remains unexplained, unless it is that the com pany is undergoing drastic process of purging itself of it's Lawson connec- tions. The company fill undoubted- ly never be able to make copper in com petition with the low-cost producers of Utah, Nevada and Arizona, but it is rated as a good property It is said to have taken care of its bond issue and is in good physical and financial condition.
 Boston curb members are not giving themselves much concern about the weakness which developed last week in Goldfeld Consolidated. They under stand that the selling is coming from New York and have suspicion that the price is being driven below its proper level. Undoubtedly Goldfeld Consolidated is still in excellent condi- ton physically and should continue it's dividend payments for the indefinite future President Wingfeld says that a new policy has been adopted in the mines which accounts for the slump in the June earnings. The high and low grade ores are being mined and milled together, thus insuring greater aggre- gate recovery from the ores and obvi- ating the necessity of going over the ground twice, as before, when the high grade ores were first selected for treat ment. The withdrawal of the Nixon snd Hayden, Stone interests from Gold field Consolidated have undoubtedly caused much liquidation and necessitat- ed degree of refnancing. Under cover of all this the opportunity has been afforded for manipulating the stock. Again, the company is very heavily capitalized, but it is despite all this that very rich property with great deal of valuable ore reserves and will probably sell again at $S and $lO share before it sells much below its present figures.
 al. fn develop little more strength on last Friday, advancing to 30 cents on Sat urday, some of the sales being based on real buying But with no advertise ments in the papers on Sunday and Monday, the stock slumped back with the usual dull thud to IS cents on Monday forenoon, later in the day re- covering to % and sliding off on Tnes- day to l9 and 20. Sentiment seems divided on the floor as to the outlook of this stock; some of the brokers look ing upon it's support as being took weak and infrm to admit of success ful campaign, while others hold that Richard J. Burton and company had succeeded in getting a transfer of the  bulk of Southwestern stock into the Humboldt Mines stock, thus reducing the floating supply volume to much smaller figure, and will now proceed to fulfill their repeated promise of making good and lift the stock to much higher figures. One story this week was to tue effect that the control and manipu lation of the stock had passed to other hands, but this is probably without any foundation. Burton admits himself tied to the stock to sink or swim and has too much at stake to let the man. ipulaton of it get out of his hands. It is quite likely that he may yet make strenuous attempt to put the stock up.
 Majestic, Wiggin Elwell promo tpn, advanced from "A to S9 cents on reports that the company was never in better financial condition and that ev- erything at the mines is in good con dition.