Show WHERE TRUE WEALTH COMES FROM there are but comparatively few who realize the fact that the intrinsic and imper ishille wealth of the world comes from the mines and that in mining operations no one is impoverished and no one is robbed no money is ever actually lost in mining operations even though the venture ignot is not successful and the dollars are not sunk in the ground but are put into circulation while the metal mined coined and added to the circulation medium of the country at large or used in the arts is all clear gain As a matter of fact there is no mone money y more honest than that which is paid out by mining companies in the way of dividends as it is an addition to the worlds supply of wealth enduring for all time and the class of invest take down dividend money every month every quarter or every year are the most satisfied and pleased people to be found anywhere and very largely so because they are making big interest on their investment and because no man is robbed nor can the investor be charged with or unjust treatment of a debtor As in an illustration of what the west is doing in the way of dividends it is only necessary to point to the history of many of the active mines of this section on the the boston andAlon and montana tana company of boston operating in butte montana declared its regular quarterly dividend of 84 4 a share and an extra dividend of 82 a share other mines of montana are doing almost equally as well and every western state basits has its regular dividend payers and as for utah checan she can boast of paying payin mines which are the equal if not the peer of any in in this intermountain inter mountain region among her regular wealth distributors distri buters are numbered the silver king which pays monthly to its stockholders the grand central which every thirty days drops into the channels of trade and commerce while among the regular monthly payers are the centen nial eureka with its 1 81 the mercur with the bullion beck with the south swansea with the swansea with the sacramento with to which sums the mammoth and the geyser marion add handsome amounts semi occa signally sio nally to say nothing of the earnings of close corporations such as captain J R de lamars golden gate the ge gemini mi ni key keystone stone the eureka hill and other private holdings not omitting the horn silver which pays quarterly cold hard facts fact and sand cold hard bard dollars are what count struggling humanity is working for the dollars and the mines of the west are furnishing the dollars or the metal upon which all currency is based for ua ultimate ti mate redemption what industry therefore offers better opportunities for safe lucrative and legitimate investments |