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The Banker and Mining j (Frank B. Anderson, president' of the Bank of California, before Ameri can Mining Congress, at San Francis co). Your chairman has given me two suggestions—one the duty of the banks, and the other the duty of the clients of the 'banks. The banks in a locality are charged with the duty of seeing that the resources of that lo cality are financed in some way. Whe ther or not it ts possible for the banks to directly engage in that financing Is another question. We are living In a comparatively young country—in a comparatively young section of that country. We are living under a dem ocracy, and sometimes I think of the story that was once told me of the discussions oif, 1 think, the constitu tional convention, when there seemed to be so much doubt as to the nature of the different classes of government. One of the delegates from New Eng land got up and made a speech bn the subject of what constituted a monar chy, and xvhat constituted a limited monarchy, and finally what constitut ed a democracy. He said that a mon archy was like a great ship that plow ed across a smooth ocean, lights burn ing, (bands playing and the passengers all happy, and struck a rock and went down; that a democracy was like a 1 aft: you could not sink it, but your feet were In the water all the time.) That applies as well to the banking business of the United States in the past. Wle have in this country about 28,000 (banks. Unfortunately we are a few shy of 28,000 bankers. The prime duty of the men sitting at the head of those banks is to keep their insti tutions in such shape that they can respond to the demands of the people whose money they are loaning. Their prime duty is to keep their Investment in such liquid form that they will J>e able to respond to the demands of the community, the demands of their de positors, and so that they will not bring about a failure on their part which will be reflected in every walk of life In that particular community. The banks of a city like San Fran cisco have a peculiar duty, as the re serves of all the country banks are entrusted to the city banks and their duty to keep their funds in liquid shape Is a much sterner duty than the duty of the country banker, who has no such obligation to perform. brought up in that wicked street was called Wall street. I came to Cali fornia in 1903. In looking over the banking situation it was perfectly clear to me that the banks were call ed upon to do a great deal of financ ing which was not proper financing for commercial banks to do. time they had to do It In order to perform the duty that your chalr apeaks of, and that is to bring to At the same man a high point of development the re of this territory. The coast sources lacked a number of different pieces of financial machinery: the bond brok er, the note broker, for Instance, induced those men to come out to the We told them of the opportun They We coast. ity there was on this coast, came; and I remember with amusement that some of the bankers gather resented this foreign money be ing brought Into this territory for the purpose of competing with their mon ey. The answer seemed to me to he * perfectly obvious, that if their money fields, and plowed some came Into these of these fields, I get my shpre of You gentlemen know different agencies have any the worms, that these this community many and brought Into hundreds of millions of dollars, you knoxv that these dollars, working, seeking the reward that they were af ter, have aided in (building up a great many of the industries of the coast. This coast has never had anything In the nature of an exploration company. needed something in It has always the nature of an exploration corn formed by men a company pany, whose character was high, whose cap ital was large, xvhose capital was sub scribed for the purpose of taking risks subscribed for the purpose of investi gating prospects, bringing them into being, and bringing them to a point where the banks were Justified in making loans, and bringing them to a point where they xvere Justified In of the securities to the public. There have been small groups on this coast who have taken those risks as There have been large that have come from the older of the country—Nexv England, There have been large from England fering Individuals. groups parts for instance. groups that have come and from France; but the mining in dustry, beginning at the point of de velopment, is one that has got to be carried on by venturesome capital. It finally passes that stage and It gets to a point where It Ih nothing but a manufacturing proposition, a question of whether or not intelligence Is used In directing the enterprise, and whe kept down, and ther the costs are whether there Is character sufficient to keep enough of the reserve back of you so that you can continue to con duct your enterprise xvhen your is pinching out. The attitude of the bank that I happqn to represent to the mining Industry Is practtc ore ward ally the same that It Is toward any other Industry. If there Is character back of the management, If the men have the reputation of being experts, If they have the reputation of being honest—In other words, if they have character—the bank that I represent has aided thoee men, and the other banks In the city of Ban Francisco have aided many of them. I can think of Instances where the banks, travel ing along. In the tine of least reslst when mining enterprises hav-e gotten into difficulties, would have ex ance, eretsed a banker's lien, taken the de nosit that hantH-nml to lie there to posit that happened to be there, Jo in stances where the Links have refrain eil from doing that, and have put their shoulders to the wheel, and have ear-I tied the undertaking to a sound reor-j -Most people think that the banks lend against collateral tlrely. That is a false Idea, The com cancel the loan and say, "We are sorry. Go ahead ami work yourself out." I have known of several gunization. mercial banks, very few of them, lend against collateral. The banks loan against the statement of men in whom they have gained confidence and whom they trust. So far as the duty of the client goes, ledo not know that 1 can blame all bankers, Mr! Chairman, for meas uring every line of efTort with tile same yardstick. There are few busi ness men who realize the value of one asset that they have got. There are very few of them that will take the trouble to educate their banker in their particular line of business, and by educating him unconsciously make him become Interested in their prob lems. A number of people resent even the questions that their bankers ask, I don't know exactly xvhy; but there is no more valuable asset that any business man has, il xvill say over again, than that of forcing his bank er to know his business and to un consciously become interested in his problems. So much for the duty of the client. The banks of the country have re cently given evidence of their attitude toward mining in the large flotation of the bonds by the Anaconda, banks of this community have given evidence of their attitude toward min wlth The ing Investments such companies as the Natomas com pany and the General Petroleum cor in connection poratlon. The type of mine that my friend over here represents, if it ever 1 money, would have no difficul ty ih getting it; and the type of mine that all of you gentlemen represent. If you run along the same lines. You never had any difficulty In getting money from your bankers, and you never will; tout the banker can not loan its funds to exploit or develop a mining enterprise, whether it be gold or oil or what it nifty he; but the in dividual who wants to exploit that particular prospect, if those individu als are known to have the expert knowledge, if they have formed a habit of telling the truth and keeping their word, they can toe helped, and they have been helped in the past; and there are men in this room who can testify to the fact. net The problem that confronts us in the future is a difficult one. I have no solution for it. It is extremely inter esting to me to sit down and listen to the guesses of the men who have solutions for them. They are no bet ter than guesses. Some of them ure fascinating guesses. The situation in which we stand today is one where we have got to pick up each day as it comes and solve the problems of that day, and to keep our heads, keep our courage, and exercise our usual com mon sense. We have successfully solved the problems of the past: we may have made a good deal of noise about It and made a lot of xvaste, but i\ve have solved them, and I think xve will solve the problems of the future in tht same way. I hope and pray that men who havfe the influence that you gentlemen have will make It known in no uncertain terms that this country was made through personal Initiative, and we want to get back to personal initiative as quickly as we can. The demands on the government for all sorts of expenditures and com missions for reconstruction problems are insistent; some of them sound, logical; some of them should be un dertaken; but the government has got to be made to understand that it has got to live Inside of its income, and live inside of an income that the bus iness man can contribute without par alyzing his business. You gentlemen are Interested in the thing that inter ests the whole people, and that is to the dollar get back to Its purchas ing power. The expenditures of the government during the war have ex ceeded the amount that can be raised by taxation or by loans from the ac tual savings of the people. The ex penditures have been upon a seale that has never yet been attempted; necessarily so; and because the ob ject that we were trying to attain was so high up—hung up so high that everybody could see It and understand 'it—the population got back of It, and had no patience with the theorist or the politician or anyone xvho objected or tried to work against it. The peo ple could see the object and they went for It. But we were forced Into a po sition where iwe had to spend money 1n a year and a half a lot of which we ought to have been spending over the last 20 or 25 or 40 years, father of every generation in this country since the foundation of the country has either had to put the uni form on his back or he has had to sit by and look at a war. There is no doubt there are men In this room xvho can go back to their family record and find that the father of every genera tion has had to put the uniform on his back. There are men sitting In this room that have seen this country in three wars, and yet there has been no sentiment whatever to make any preparation, or to give any of the young men growing up any teaching 'that would aid them to carry out the duties that were going to be thrust upon them as it was thrust upon their fathers. Necessarily we had to spend a great deal more money than would have been necessary If we had thought see The I ahead n little. It 18 Xow that Is not only true in regard j to the question of preparedness. I true in regard to practically thing thut we hive to undertake \v» i i i . , . . have been busy during ail these gen and developing a vast rich territory The rewards for that development right under our nose was more attractive than the rewards from the outside. We were too busy to care very much about the character of people that j were elected to ottice, many of them en-'earnest men, but men whose knowl edge was confined to the needs of ... . , „„ . . . tleir own localities; and practically all the laws that we have on the stat which were put have reached a point where, in order . up me pur chasing power of the people that have been built up around those great manufacturing institutions, we have . , , got to seek the trade of the world, and we have got to go out and com pete with peoples who have spent hundreds of years and thousands of lives and millions of dollars in en ... 1 mi. ugi ai eommercial stand point) and we have to compete with ex er> - erutions settling great big. ute books are laws there by brains and minds that un derstood local problems only. We to keep our great manufacturing stitutions going, to keep in tienchtng themselves in points (from the them with laws that practically make it impostible for us to compete. We have got to get that thing hung up so that the population can see and un derstand it, and then sweep aside the that will j as by theorist and demand laws allow us to compete successfully. To go back a minute, I said that the government had exceeded tile amount that could be raised by taxation or by loans from the actual savings of the people, necessitating the creation of credits with the banks direct, and through the people with the banks, to enable them to carry out their duty in purchasing these new credits, with the result that the purchasing power created has exceeded the purchasable goods and services, resulting in com petition for those goods and services between the government and its own people, and consequently driving up prices, which has created a harlshlp for the people of the country, and particularly for the gold mining in dustry, whose product is at a fixed price. A sound permanent cure car. come only through an absorption of that credit which has been created, by actual savings, by a cessation of borrowing on the part of the govo. 1 ment as soon as ti is practicable, and by an understanding on the part of the government that it must reduce its activities to a point where it can live xvithin its income, and within an income, as 1 said before, that can be collected without paralyzing every line of effort. The situation can only be cured, as I said, through genunie savings. Continued borrowing be yond the power of the people to ab sorb will only retard the return to normal prices and aggravate the sit uation that exists at present. Abnor may taxation, such taxation as we have today, will paralyze business, tions which, if they could liquidate today, would be in a much better po sition than if they continue to do the business because of the fact that the day is coming that they will have to or to of or p. initiative and kill I know of institu liquidate their high priced assets at declining prices. The quick solution of the problem, again, I say, is econ nation and omy on the part of the the people; and to the extent that this is observed the purchasing power the dollar xvill be restored, extent that it is ignored the purchas ing power of the dollar will decline. Mere creation of money xvill not solve the problem. The bills or To the and credits of the past have got to be paid by goods and services, and the nation that works the hardest, that produces the most, and that consumes the least, will be the nation that gets out of its problems he quickest. ORDINANCE NO. 138. ied as AN ORDINANCE DEFINING AND LOCATING THE CHANNEL AND RIGHT OF WAY OF PLACER CREEK AND FIXING THE WIDTH OF SAID STREAM WHERE IT FLOWS THROUGH THE CITY OF WALLACE FROM A POINT ON THE SOUTH BOUNDARY LINE OF THE 'CITY OF WALLACE TO A POINT ON THE MONUMENT LINE OF HIGH STREET 153.10 FEET WESTERLY FROM THE MONUMENT MARKING THE IN TERSECTION OF FIRST AND HIGH STREETS OF THE CITY OF WALLACE, AND MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO BUILD INTO OR OVER STREAMS IN THE CITY OF WALLACE. 1 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WALLACE: of the stream known as Placer Creek, where Section 1. The channel w INTER NATIONAL m ■■ lire . 3 HOLDS ALL RECORDS AU Sizes and Forms CARRIED IN ST 9^ Exclusive Agency "Lidgerwood" Hoists, Etc. WESTERN eouipmISjco. AND Liill.ll llilnl'i! "Hi.; (,iii (Hll f! ..'.i l, r .i:: .ii :n 1' i; 1,X I If. );;ll South 5 Stevens Street, SPOKANE I it flows through the City of Wallace from a point on the south boundary line of the City of Wallace to a point on the monument line of High street 153 10 feet westerly from the menu ment marking the Intersection of First and High streets of the City of WtU , aoe ts , u . rob> located, designated and established as follows, and the follow ln * lines of survey and location are .hi 'A* "T. 2 f , of'said'placer Creek, to-wit ■'*' Beginning at a point on the south boundary line of the City of Wallace ; ^ {'"J'.^saW* ; UrUmdary, Tm? ning thence north thirty-six degrees forty-live minutes oust, forty-one and n .° hundredths feet to a thence north forty-six degrees minutes east, sixty-four and tw hundredths feet to a point on southerly line of lot live, South Wallace Townslte distant easterly from corner of said lot five. sixty-five degrees no one • hundred twenty-live point; thence north fifty-four degrees j n o minutes east seventy feet to the 'be- , ginning of a curve to the left: thence along the circumference of n curve nu1ius is ; °" p hundred fe f* and whose central angle Is sixtv-six degrees no minutes, sixty-three and thirty-six hundredths feet to mid of curve; thence north twelve de- j gives no minutes west, one hundred eighty-live and ninety-four hun dredths feet to a point oti the north ]| np of ]ot onp two. South Wal lace Townslte, one hundred forty three and fifty-four hundredths feet distant easterly from the northwest | corner of - point. five enty t he j block two, twenty feet the southwest thence north mlnutes east, feet to a | thence north ! mi id lot one; seven degrees n, minutes east, rxvo a point; thence I hundred eighty feet t north eighteen degrees five minutes °^ st ' on f hundred twenty-four and ninety-six hundredths feet to a point: thence north live degrees no minutes east, one hundred ninety feet to a 'Point on the monument line of High j Street one hundred llfty-three and ten-hundredths feet westerly from the monument marking the Intersection of First and High Streets In the City of Wallace. Sec. 2. The width of said channel and water course of said Placer Creek j shall be and the same is hereby es- I tabllshed at twenty-five (25) feet, that | Is. It shall be twelve and one-half (12Mi) feet on each side of the line hereinbefore described In Section One of this ordinance. Sec. 3. Ii shall be unlawful for any person to build into, over or upon any of the streams or channels of the streams of any of the creeks or water courses of the City of Wallace, as the same now are, or as they may hereaf ter be established therein, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, thereof shall be fined In a sum of not less than twenty and not more than one hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution. Sec. 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances In conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Sec. 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be In force from and after lls passage, approval and publication as required by law. Passed by the Council and approved by the Mayor tills 24th day of Febru ary, A. D. 1919, nd upon conviction HOMER G. BROWN, Mayor, ATTEST: DAVID H. DELONG, City Clerk. F2 7--11 NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT. Office of the Sabina Mining (t Milling Company, Wallace, Idaho, February 15, 1919. Notice is hereby given that meeting of the board of directors of the 'Sabina Mining & Milling com pany, held on the 27th day of January, 1919, an assessment of three (3) mills per share was levied upon the capital stock of the corporation, payable on or before the 7th day of April, 1919, to E. C. Allen, treasurer, at the office of the company in Walalce, Idaho. Any stock upon which this assess ment remains unpaid on the said 7th day of April. 1919, xvill be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auc tion, and unless payment is made on or before said date, will be sold on the 28th day of April, 1919, at '7:00 o'clock p. m. at the office of the company, (which is also the office of E. >C. Ai len, secretary of the company, Wood land Park), to pay the delinquent as sessment thereon, together with the costs of advertising and expenses of sale. u E. C. ALLEN, Secretary of the Sabina Mining and 'Milling Company, Phone 434 W-4; Woodland Park, Wallace, Idaho. F27-A3-6t NOTICE TO DELINQUENT STOCK HOLDERS. Office of the Friend Mining Company, 51U Empire State Building, Spokane, Washington, February 19, 1919. Notice is hereby given that there is now delinquent upon the following de scribed stock on account of an assess ment of three (3) mills per share, lev ied on the 18th day of January, 1919, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respectlx'e stockholders as follows, to-wit: No. No. Cert. Shares Amt. .249 1000 3.00 ..383 1000 3.00 .412 1500 4.50 5000 15.00 614 2200 6.60 675 2500 7.50 Name Anschutz, U A Addis, Wm T . Boyd, Frank W Bostrom Carl Hilding5S5 Draper, H W . Draper, H W . DaCamp, .Miss Stella 3.00 639 1000 .1 DeCamp, Miss Stella 1000 3.00 641 .1 3.00 1000 Elchaneaur, L V ....304 Evans, T G Evans, T G Evans Mrs Martha H 507 Evans, Miss Lucy ..510 10000 30.00 10000 80.00 10000 30.00 2000 6.00 505 506 Ex an«, Coleman l) ...509 Evans, Sidney B ...511 Fritehey, W E Fitzgerald, Gilbert, Geo F .20 2000 2000 3500 1500 1000 1000 2o00 1000 1000 1000 0.00 6.00 I 10.50 4.50 | 3,ou 3.00 j fl.oo 3.00 3.00 3.00 15.00 30.00 Gafner, otto .394 Holie, Philip K . ..250 Kennedy. Dave .160 Madison. Mrs Xels ..285 Moon, II C .332 M h"T' Mrs K1orf ' n - Meyer, Henry w .5o4 MciNichols, Geo R ; oison, Oscar _ ouZ itetnel K,.gan! e vr 1 Wilson Mrs Jennie ii 440 :.... ,,. , „ T. ginla*" 161 *' J * rS '' Willie Miss Alma M 63S , ii 010,1 m oas I™ e ' ^ 88 * ma M 640 ' Y . • ss A , M . , shares "reach parcel'^of 'such stock* 1 as may he necessary will be sold on the 15th day of March, 1919, at 1:30 o'clock P- trt. of said day, at the Bank ;entrano it Wallace, (Idaho, to pay |quest assessment thereon, together with the cost of advertising and ex .718 Dave . . .697 355 soon 1000 1000 3000 1000 4000 1000 1500 5000 5000 2500 5000 5000 8000 1000 3.00 9.00 3.00 12.00(16 3.00 | 4.50 15.00 | 15.00 7.50' 15.00 15.00 24.00 3.00 3.00 6.00 6.00 ay 3',10 j Yoo! 3.00 , 'SO 1 . . 723 Joseph .595 Wm .... Fred ... Fred .693 Spach, Miss Emu line 719 696 Spach, Spach, Spach, Spach, Geo .692 Snell, Lewis .. .. 514 Trout, Mrs Frank 74 Thoreen, Gotfrled Al 691 Geo . _369 bin .. . Trimble. Mrs Louise . . .243 1000 2000 2000 ...508 2000 1000 1000 1000 street of the County Court House. the rielln penses of sale. WM. SCHII5RDING, Mining Company, '510 Empire State Building, Spokane, F27-M6-2t Treasurer Friend Washington. ALIAS SUMMONS. In the District Court of the First Ju dicial District of the State of Idaho, in and for Shoshone County. Christine Backer, plaintiff, vs. Wil liam F. Barker, defendant. The State of Idaho sends greeting to William M. Barker, the above nam ed defendant. You are hereby notified that a com plaint has been filed against you in the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Idaho, in and for the County of (Shoshone, by the Mining and Development Companies of the Coeur d'Alenes Assessments Levied, Meetings Called, Delinquent Lists— Doings of Companies of 8peciol Interest to All Stockholders. ASSESSMENTS LEVIED. Buffalo Mining Co.—Levied Septem ber 30, 10 mills, payable November 5 to George Dunham, treasurer, Bruns wick hotel, Missoula, Mont, quent sale December 4. Postponed to April 4, Delin Coeur d'Alene Antimony Mining Co. —Levied January 24, 3 mills, payable March 1 to C. M. Powell, secretary, Pine creek, Kellogg. Delinquent sale March 22. Friend Mining Co.—Levied January 18, 3 mills, payable February 19 to Wiilliam Schierding, treasurer, 310 Empire State building, Spokane. De linquent sale March 15. Consolidated 29, 1 Highland • Surprise Mining Co.—-Levied August cent, payable to Chas. Weigand, sec Delinquent sale Kellogg. retary, postponed to March 1. My Quotations of Silver, Lead, Zinc and Copper Which Are the Actual Basis of Settlement The accompanying table gives the luotatlons of silver, lead, zinc and xopper as obtained by the Engineer ng and Mining Journal and which are generally specified as the basis of set Jement In ore contracts with the imelters. The quotations published In he daily press are usually higher for the reason that they represent sales n small lots, while the figures here LEAD ZINC COPPER February Stiver N. Y. ~St. L. St. L. CImu* 6 101 % 6.10 5 4.70 18 10 - 1 % 6.30 5 4.65 18 ^ I 8 101 % 6.35 5 4.65 @6.45 17% 10 101 % .6.35 17% 5 4.65 @6.40 6.17% @17% 11 101 % 5 4.65 @ 6 . 22 % 17 12 * Undetermined. MONTHLY AVERAGE PRICES OF METALS, 1919. As Determined by the Engineering and Mining Journal. Silver N.T. ..87.702 ..85.719 . .88.082 ..95.346 .. 99.505 ..99.500 ..99.625 .100.292 .101.125 .101.125 .101.125 101.125 101.125 Lead N.T. Lead 8t. L. Zinc Copper N. T. 11.590 23.600 11.500 11.600 IS.609 MONTH January .. February March ... April .... May . June . July . August .. September October .. November December January .. St. L 6.782 6.684 7.661 6.978 6.899 7.681 7.886 0.716 7.201 7.091 6.772 6.701 6.818 6.704 7.114 7.611 7.511 7.791 8.388 81.509 8.033 7.750 29.509 8.060 8.050 8.050 8.050 7.750 7.750 7.750 7.750 6.324 5.316 8.635 28.000 89 090 29.909 29 000 9.092 8.451 8.141 6.564 7.218 (•) 6.432 6.922 s (•) No market. |above named plaintiff, wherein plain I tiff ulleges as follows: | married at Bruwerville, Minnesota, on February 28, 1898, and ever since have j been and now are husband and wife; that plaintiff now is and for more than a year l«at past has been a bona fide resident of the ittate of Idaho and of the County of Shoshone, therein; that the defendant, for more than a year last past has wilfully neglected to pro vide for plaintiff the common That plaintiff and defendant Inter neces sarlos of life; plaintiff further alleges thut there are now living of the Issue of their marriage two children, aged and 11, respectively; wherefore | plaintiff demands divorce and custody of said minor children be awarded to | her. • pear and answer the said complaint within txventy days of the service of this summons If nerved within said Judicial District, and within forty days If served elsewhere; and you are further notified that unless you so ap pear and answer said complaint with in the tin*' herein specified, the plaln tiff will take judgment against you as prayed in said complaint. Witness my hand and the seal of said District Court this 8th day of j January, A. D. 1919. „ , , (Seal) And you are hereby directed to ap J. C. GLARE Clerk. By G. A. MORTIMER, Deputy Clerk. FRANKLIN PF1RMAN, Attorney for Plaintiff. Residence and P. G. Address: Wallace, Idaho. F27-A8-6t NOTICE OF THE ISSUANCE OF AN ATTACHMENT. In the District Court df the First Ju dicial District of the State of Idaho, in and for the County of Shoshone. The O. A. Olin Company, plaintiff, vs. Chris Anderosn, defendant. Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of February, A. D. 1919, at tachment Issued in the above entitled action against the property of the aforesaid defendant. Chris Anderson, for the sum of $1212.55, with Interest thereon at the rate of 1 nor cent ner month from October 15, 1918, together with attorney's fees and the costs of said action. Witness my hand and the seal of said District Court, affixed this 21st day of February. A. D. 1919. HARRY A. ROGERS, Clerk District Court. By L. L. RRAINARD. Deputy. (Seal) F27-M13-3t Old Veteran Mining Co.—Levied January 6, 2 mills, payable February 10 to L. L. Brainard, secretary-treas urer, Wallace. Delinquent sale March 1st. Rainbow Mining & Milling Coc— Levied December 19, S mills, payable February 6 to R. P. Woodworth, sec retary-treasurer, 745 Peyton building, Spokane. Delinquent pole March 7. Success Mining Co.—Levied Decem ber 20, 2 cents, payable January 17 to Herman J. Rossi, treasurer, Wallace. Delinquent sale February >1. Syndicate Mining & Exploration Co. —Levied January 14, 1 mill, payable February 15 to Louis Stevens, secre tary, Wardner. Delinquent sale on March 15. Tarbox Mining Co.— Levied Decem ber 20, 10 mills, payable January 14 to R. E. Seysler, secretary, Wallace. De* linquent sale February II. Postponed to March I. given are based on large transactions and are generally determined from re ports made by producers and selling agencies. Both the New York and 8t, Louis prices of lead are given, the dif ference being due mainly to the differ ence In freight between the two points. The quotations for spelter are ter prime western brands. To arrive at the New York price add 35 cents per 109 pounds to the 8t. Louie price.