Show LEVY LEV ASSESSMENT MAINTAIN SILENCE I I Directors Continue to Ig Ignore Ignore Ignore nore Rights of Only Selected Few Maintaining Its Is Jay a Gould attitude toward the public the board of or directors tors tor of oC the Mining company met mot yesterday In Provo and levied lovle an as ns of ot 3 cents cent cent a share on the stock toek of ot the company The assessment becomes delinquent August Si 9 and the date of or sale is Sept Sopt Sept 19 U UThe The Thc regular meeting of ot the hoard board hold held on OD the thc wa wal wag adjourned without action acton upon the matter mator of 0 an assessment tho inference having been that hat the workings workIng were believed to be beso beno so no close to an ore oro body bod that It might prove provo unnecessary ar to levy another as assessment assessment Just Juat ut a week later was wn wa cir air circulated tho the report that an Important strike had been boen made the stock of at the company was boosted to a relatively high price on an the local market and much or of It I was sas sold cold by b large holders while the management steadfastly ro re refused fused to either confirm or deny den the strike report I The Thc management seeks to justify Its I peculiar attitude at this time upon the thc plea that It I has been the tho policy of the company com from the time that develop men was WS first firt undertaken to give out nothing concerning mine conditions Out nut the public regards regard such attempted justification as a Tho The Ope x company was originally a close corpo corporation corporation ration raton During the thc last year however the lie shares have been finding their way wa Into the hands of o many small owners who have contributed their share ebare to the tho support For several months Opec has ba been the tho loader lender In unlisted issues mutes whose whole shares have been handled on thc the local 1001 exchange During the last week approximately approximate shares of its It tock stock changed hands on that tha ex cx exchange e change Shareholder Have ilave InTe Opo Is no longer a close corpora corporation corpor corporation tion ton Every Even shareholder of record has the legal right to demand and the thc of officials officials of the company com pan are aro under legal obligation to provide explicit Information tion ton concerning tho the situa situe situation siUA tion ton as It might affect the value alue of tho the holdings holdings The officials have neith neither er or r legal nor moral right to monopolize such information to their own advantage tage tago and to the thc possible disadvantage of or It Is more than likely that some lomo this of the thc stockholders would before have hac made mado demand to be shown mine conditions were It not for the knowl knowledge knowledge edge demand that it I IK h easy CAy ca to evade oade such uch a It 1 I If is an Illustration of o how com corn completely the small smail mal shareholders of a company might be at nt the mercy merey of those in control should the latter later choose to adopt unscrupulous methods of ot manipulation which Is 18 not pleasing to contemplate |