Show IT is an old sa saying y ing that the proof of the pudding is in the eating this applies to co mining enterprises as well as to other business pursuits it is money that makes the mare go and profits on investments which causes people to invest more and more heavily in investment and speculative propositions mining is all well enough and an alluring field for the poor and rich alike but its attractions would soon fade away and die out were there no returns no profits and dividends in this matter of big returns of heavy dividends utah is peculiarly fortunate and every month witnesses the distribution of wealth galore in the shape of dividends sufficient to prove beyond a shadow of doubt the truth of the oft repeated assertion that mining if carried on in legitimate lines and with the same care and attention to detail that is given to any other line of business is as safe and productive of larger returns than any other pursuit to which the investor could direct his attention and in proof of this assertion it is only necessary to point to small fortunes distributed every month by the dividend payers of the state As a starter the silver king untied its money bags and paid its regular monthly edivy divy of the grand central followed suite with its monthly payment of the swansea dropped the sacramento while within the next few days the centennial eureka will divide among its fortunate stockholders and the bullion beek beck making a total of for the month not counting the paid the first of the month by the horn silver nor the small fortunes paid regularly by private corporations such as the gemini keystone the eureka hill the godiva the old jordan galena the old telegraph and the niagara surely with such a showing as this no one can can doubt but that mining pays io in utah |