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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 16, 1909

Page

12

Copper stocks lead price uplift in New York and Boston

Total sales reach 936 500 shares in New York and 168 125 in Boston. Amalgamated Copper is the most active issue in both cities with 144 400 shares in New York and 13 045 in Boston. Sugar common shows the greatest losses in both markets, while Calumet and Hecla leads gains in Boston. Call and time money rates vary between New York and Boston.

New York Boston Amalgamated Copper Federal Mining & Smelting Common Sugar Common Calumet & Hecla Mining Amalgamated Butt Greene Cananea North Butte Nevada Consolidated Butte Coalition Miami Sugar New Lake Quincy Osceola Calumet & Hecla Mohawk Wolverine United Fruit Centennial Granby

Market surge as copper consolidation boosts prices and volume

Keen interest in New York stocks drives a broad rally led by copper shares Amalgamated and Anaconda. Higher steel and sugar weakens on fraud fears. Towle, Fitzgerald dissolve in 1910. Thompson Towle & Co and Fitzgerald & Co form. Massachusetts Coal & Power lists on curb. Lake Copper plans treasury stock issue.

State Street Amalgamated Anaconda American Smelting Utah Copper Western Union American Sugar Towle & Fitzgerald

Dividends Payable Calendar for Today in Several Corporations

Calendar notes today dividends payable for Albany and Susquehanna at 30 percent ex dividend on National Biscuit preferred. Books open for Buffalo Roch and Pitts com and pfd. Also notes for Conn. Ry and Lt com and pfd Horn Silver Mining National Carbon preferred United States Express United Bank Note Corp com Buffalo Mines Manhattan Transit Warwick Iron and Steel Atlantic Coast Line N E Cotton Yarn New York Dock Northern Texas Elec Cin N C Tex Pacific Paducah Trac and Light Am Shipbuilding Consol Arizona Smelt Old Colony Copper.

Am Agri Chemical Arizona Atchison Ter Trene Boston Boston Eley & Albany Boston & Maine Chio Junction NY &Nh Esses Old Colony Union Pacific West End P&t Atlantic Butte Coalition Sil Cal & Arizona Cal & Hecla Centennial Ser Eee Copper Range Eee Daly West Wer Old Dominion Sea Santa Fe Quincy Trinity Eee Utah Consol Utah Copper BRI Victoria Wolverine E United Truit Law United Shoe Ma UTS Steel Am Agri Chem Coer Boston Consol Boston Corbin Dominion Iron East Butterner Giroux Hancock Isle Royale Superior & Boston Superior & Pitts Swift & Co Utah Apex Ser Eee Allis Chalmers Amer Bee Amer Amer Car & Foundry Amer Hide & 1 Yreft Amer Ice Securities Amer Locomotive Amer Ee Amer St Foundry Amer Tobacco Anaconda Mining Co Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore & Ohio Ee Batopilas Krethielem Steel Brooklyn Rapid Transit Central Teather Ee Ohie Gt Western Ctfa Mil & St Paul St Louis Colorado Fuel & Iron Colorado & Southern Delaware & Hudson Denver & Rio Grande Erie Minn Missouri Pacific Kan Texas New York Air Brake New York Central Ontario & West Northern Pacific Pacific Mail Penn People’s Gas Reading Ewes Republic Steel Rock Island St L & S F St Louis Southwestern Sloss Sheffield S Southern Pacific Scene Southern Railway Eaves Texas & Pacific Ewes St L & West United States Rubber United States Steel Utah Copper Steee Ee Carolina Chem Maryland Westinghouse Elec Edges Western Union H & St Illinois Inter Inter Met Kan City Lake Shore Lehigh & W B St Ry Mid State el L H & P NH & HV Ont & West Nor & West Pacific Coast Pac Ell & Pel Bey M &So BOTOE San An & Ar Southern Pacific Mob & O Texas Pacific Union Bag Union Pacific Ist Us&s UC Ss Steel Weste Union Westinghouse el & Migne West Shore Cuba United ‘States Is Cance Vaderos Brown Bros&Co Cts New York City N. E. Cotton Yarn New York Dock Northern Elec Cin Pacific Paducah Trac. & Light

Burton & Co Conducts Future Business Plans

The North Butte Company paid a $1 dividend today bringing total per share distributions to $21.50 and $8,600,000 to shareholders since organization. Frank A. Ruggles presents a 12 year Boston national banks history noting capital surplus profits deposits dividends and yearly high and low prices. Dominion Coal President James Ross offers a 50,000 share option to a syndicate at 95 a share. Crown Reserve mine floods rumor causing the stock to fall to 4.8.

North Butte Company Boston National Banks Frank A. Ruggles State Street James Ross Dominion Coal Company Dominion Iron & Steel Company Dominion Coal

Copper shares lift curb market on Boston trading day

Copper stock activity boosted the Boston curb market with gains in Cumberland Ely to 91-8 and Davis Daly to 61-2. Ray Consolidated reached 231-4 and First National 7 while Ohio Copper moved to 53-8 amid broad interest in Ely Consolidated Amalgamated Nevada Ely Witch Boston Ely Champion Willott Consolidated Arizona and National Mining Exploration.

Cumberland Ely Davis Daly Ray Consolidated First National Ohio Copper Ely Consolidated Amalgamated Nevada Ely Witch Boston Ely Champion, Willett Consolidated Arizona National Mining Exploration Nevada Bay State Gas Bingham Boston Ely Butte London China Cobalt Central Wily Central Ely Consol Hassayampa Indiana Mckinley Douglas Utah Ohio SO We Ag Pr Union Cappe Vultars

Bond Market Notes and New York Trust Bond Deliveries

The New York Trust Company announces it can deliver engraved coupon bonds upon surrender of interim certificates for the Kansas City Southern Railway Company refunding and improvement mortgage five percent bonds. Hudson Company has sold three million dollars of additional three year notes at five percent, secured by convertible bonds of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company, redeemable on 30 days notice and convertible at holder option at ninety five and interest. Jamestown New York awards fifty thousand five and a quarter percent semi annual twenty year hospital bonds to N W Harris & Co at one hundred five and twenty one.

Boston New York Trust Company Kansas City Southern Railway Company Hudson Company Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company Hudson & Manhattan Jamestown N. Y N. W. Harris & Co

Stockholders notice of dividend and record dates

Standard Oil Co of New Jersey declares quarterly $10 dividend with Dec 15 payment and Nov 19 record. Chestnut Hill R R Co sets 144 per cent rate with Dec 4 date and Nov 20 record. Philadelphia Germantown Morristown R R Co 3 per cent with Dec 4 date and Nov 20 record. Massachusetts Mills in Georgia semi annual 214 per cent to record Nov 15. Philadelphia Electric Co quarterly 114 per cent with Dec 15 record Nov 20. St Joseph By St Ht & Power Co quarterly 144 per cent common with Dec 1 record Nov 15. North Butte Mining Co quarterly $1 with Dec 23. Essex Co semi annual $3 with Dec 1 to record.

Standard Oil Co New Jersey Chestnut Hill R. R. Co Philadelphia, Germantown Morristown R. R. Co Massachusetts Mills Georgia Philadelphia Electric Co St. Joseph By Ht., & Power Co North Butte Mining Co Essex Co

Love prompts burglar to save girl in Swampscott case

Charles A. McKenny told Judge Lummus that love drove him to burglarize summer homes of John Shepard and William Bunting in Swampscott on November 8. He said love also led him to inform on Edward J. Gallagher to rescue Georgia Murray from prison, with Gallagher held for $1400 and McKenny ordered to post $700 surety. Georgia Murray served as witness.

Lynn Charles A. McKenny Lummus Edward J. Gallagher Georgia Murray McKenny Murray John Shepard William Bunting Swampscott Reddy Gallagher MccKenny

Boston Gains $286200 In Corporation Tax

State Tax Commissioner W D T Trefry announces Boston receives 286200.22 from this year's corporation tax. The figure is lower than expected due to undercounting Boston residents who own stock in cotton mill firms located elsewhere, reducing Boston's share to half of the full amount from prior years.

W. D. T. Trefry Boston

Billion Dollar Copper Combine On the Horizon

A vast copper producing combine may be announced soon in top financial circles. The plan traces to Henry Huddlestone Rogers who formed Amalgamated Copper, aiming to unite the major producers under one umbrella with about a billion dollars in capitalization.

Henry Huddlestone Rogers Amalgamated Copper Company

Copper Trust Merger Aims to Unite Major Mines Worldwide

Plans describe Amalgamated Copper’s expansion and a proposed merger with Cole-Ryan interests and Guggenheim, Phelps-D Dodge, and Vogelstein groups. The combine would unify Amalgamated, Anaconda, Butte Coalition, Calumet & Arizona, Greene Cananea, North Butte and more, producing over 850 million pounds annually with potential to exceed 1 billion. J P Morgan would finance the flotations and John D Ryan is likely to lead.

Anaconda Parrott Silver & Copper Washoe Copper Colorado Smelting & Mining Boston & Montana Butte & Boston Calumet & Hecla United Verde William A. Clark Amalgamated F. Augustus Heinze Amalgamated Copper Company Greene Cananea Copper Company Greene Consolidated Copper Company James Gayley Steel Corporation Cole-Ryan United Metals Selling Company Urban H. Broughton H. H. Rogers International Smelting & Refining Company Cole-Ryan-Amalgamated Mines Butte Coalition Calumet & Arizona Giroux Greene Cananea International Smelting and Refining North Butte Parrott Superior & Pittsburg Utah Consolidated Guggenheim Crowd Guggenheim Exploration Company Phelps-Dodge Company L. Vogelstein & Co Guggenheim and Vogelstein Guggenheims Utah Nevada Consolidated Bay Consolidated First National Cumberland Ely Vogelstein & Co Phelps, Dodge & Co Canada Europe J. P. Morgan John D. Ryan

Steel financial case hearings probe witness examination

The Finance Commission case enters its ninth week with Arthur D. Hill still leading. Evidence focuses on witness examination methods and the handling of two card cabinets tied to steel contracts as T. R. Worcester testifies on market control while court adjourns until morning.

Arthur D. Hill Finance Commission Nellie Nash Michael J. Sughrue Mr. Farley Reginald Hull Farley Hill C. E. Fouhy T. R. Worcester Harris

Supreme Court upholds employers' liability law in territories

The 1906 employers liability act is ruled constitutional in U S territories and the District of Columbia. The decision follows a prior ruling that the act was unconstitutional when applied to states. The case involved damages for the death of an employee, Gutierrez, on the El Paso and Northeastern Railway in New Mexico.

Washington United States District of Columbia Supreme Court of the Gutierez el Paso & Northeastern New Mexico

Captain Gove to command the battleship Delaware

Captain Charles A. Gove will be the first officer to command the new battleship Delaware. He is currently commandant of the midshipmen at Annapolis and will assume duties after orders take effect next spring.

Washington Charles A. Gove Delaware Gove Annnapolis

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