Name of company. Jan. 1. Jan. 10. Jan. 20. Feb. 1. Feb. 10. Feb. 20. Mar. 1. Table showing the fluctuations in mining shares from January 1, 1865, to June 20, 1865. Mar. 10. Mar. 20. Apr. 1. Apr. 10. Apr. 20. May 1. May 10. May 20. June 1. June 10. June 20. [Name of company. June 20. July 1. July 10. July 20. July 30. Table showing the fluctuations in mining shares from June 20, 1865, to November 20, 1865. Aug. 10. Jan. 10. Jan. 20. Feb. 1. Feb. 10. Feb. 20. Table showing the fluctuations in mining shares from November 20, 1865, to June 29, 1866. Mar. 1. Gould & Curry..per ft. $875 $975 $940 $850 $925 $885 $825 $850 $825 $1,060 $925 $1,000 $1,050 Ophir Savage Potosi . Chollar ..do.. 340 .do.. 625 670 370 250 350 370 345 325 400 435 440 425 750 650 960 700 830 635 830 920 900 890 1, 060 650 1, 020 ..do.. .do.. 270 249 130 125 176 139 224 395 278 3221 367 Hale & Norcross. .do.. 155 150 170 125 280 240 315 825 940 980 1,200 8 15 13 10 9 10 10 8 Mar. 10. Real del Monte.....do.. Mar. 20. Mar. 31. Apr. 10. Apr. 20. May 1. May 10. May 21. May 30. June 9. June 20. June 29. Table showing the fluctuations in mining shares from June 29, 1866, to September 30, 1866. These tables cover but a comparatively short period and do not show the more extreme and violent fluctuations that took place during the earlier periods in the history of mining speculations. Thus in the early part of the summer of 1859 the Ophir ground could be bought for one hundred dollars, and the Gould & Curry for three dollars per foot. In less than eight months the former had risen to $1,000, and the latter to $600 per foot, and though the Gould & Curry stock, owing to assessments, and the fact that no ore was being taken out, fell during the summer of 1861 to $200 per foot, we find that in less than two years from that time it was selling currently at the rate of $5,000 per foot, and again but one year thereafter for less than $1,000, and though it subsequently rallied somewhat, selling in April, 1865, for a little over $2,000 per foot, it can at the present time be bought for about one-fourth that sum; nor is this an extreme case, most of the other claims on the Comstock ledge having undergone similar vicissitudes, while some at Gold Hill have fluctuated still more widely. At one time the Empire ground could not be bought at $10,000 per foot; now it can be had for a little more than $1,000. The Sheba, Daney, Wide West, Burning Moscow, Real del Monte, and others that might be named, though now selling for almost nominal prices, and some of them not salable at all, were once selling currently at $500 per foot, upon most of them expensive mills and hoisting works having since been erected. Hundreds of claims that during these periodical seasons of excitement were finding buyers readily at sums varying all the way from one to a hundred dollars per foot are now no longer heard of, being in fact of no value whatever. In the shares of the productive mines on the Comstock ledge it is believed no further depreciation will be likely to take place, but rather that most of them will advance in price, the payment of dividends suspended upon many of them during the past year being gradually resumed, and though not so large as formerly, with a prospect of being continued hereafter. The Hale & Norcross company are now making monthly dividends of $75 per foot; the Yellow Jacket, of $50; the Gould & Curry, of $25; and many other companies greater or less amounts, while a few, owing to extra expenses the past year, are not making any, but expect to do so in a few weeks or months. Previous to June 1, 1865, the Empire company had taken from their minẹ a sum total of $1,500,000, of which $287,500 were paid in dividends. Including the product of the present year, the Gould & Curry company have taken from their mine a grand total of $14,000,000, of which $6,500,000 have been paid out in general disbursements and improvements; a little over $3,000,000 for work done by custom mills; the balance, something over $4,000,000, having been paid to the stockholders in dividends, while the assessments levied have been comparatively small. The extent to which assessments have been levied upon the principal mines in various parts of the State recently, dividends, &c., can be readily seen by reference to the following tables: |