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Show CANDIDATES FOR HONORS IN HEAVER ( Ol'N'TY "Another former dividend payer of Beaver county came back into the ranks last month. On the fifteenth fif-teenth the Moscow. passed, out 2 He per share to its stockholders and still has a nice little nest egg left. The suspension of payments for a long period was not due to the lack of ore or deficiency of earnings, but to the extraordinary expense involved in-volved in the construction of a new working shaft. This shaft is completed. com-pleted. It will save the company money in so many ways that it will gave its cost in a few years. Notwithstanding its resumption of dividends and the betterment of its working conditions, its stock is only about half as high as when no dividends were being paid. In the last year it sold as low as 12 cents, and its highest quotation was 32 cents. It is now the second dividend pay er of Beaver county, the first being the Horn Silver. The question as to which will be the third is debatable. debat-able. There are several contenders for the honor. A likely candidate is Creole. It has not done well in the market of late, but this, I understand is on account of a falling out between the company management and its market mar-ket representatives. When the differences dif-ferences are fixed up the price should advance as the mine seema to be in excellent condition and producing steadily. Paloma, in the Star district, a neighbor nei-ghbor of the Moscow, is also in the 'race for third position in the dividend divi-dend column. It is reliably reported report-ed that a good tonnage of ore has been accumulated and will be shipped ship-ped as soon as the weather permits. ' The superintendent says that they have five feet of carbonate ore now worth about $41 a ton." |