Show FOUR BY UTAH MINES Beck Tunnel Colorado Grand Central and Utah Mine Com Corn Company Company pany All AH in Line COLORADO CUTS IN HALF BECK TUNNEL TU TRIMS DOWN TO I TWO CENTS Four Utah mines posted dividends yes yesterday yesterday es that will call for fo the checking out of during the next couple of weeks Colorado Is to pay 6 cents cent or Beck Tunnel Consolidated 2 cents or Grand Central 5 cents cente or I Utah Mine company of Fish Springs 2 cents or 2000 As stated yesterday morning morn ng the Colo Cob Colorados Colorados Cobado rados ado dividend is only one alf of what It was last month and as compared with Its last payment pa ment in August the Beck Tunnel distribution is less The payments ordered by b the Grand Central and Utah Mine Une companies are the usual monthly amounts Now No that the fashion Is to measure everything by merit and andreal andreal andreal real worth companies by b their capitali capitalization nation and ability to pay It will not be out of ot place to call attention to just what these dividends mean The to al amount paid by b any company means nothing more to the tho Individual share shareholder bolder holder than the sum which le Je receives n 1 the shares he ho happens to own There Therefore lore fore while the Beck Tunnel company compan with its shares has to go o down downin in Jn Its treasury for to give its Stockholders ers 2 cents a share the Utah company compan is able to do Just as ns well by byUs Its Us shareholders on an expenditure of 2000 A disbursement of on the part of the Utah Mine company would wOl d dI I enrich its individual shareholders to the same amount per share as calls calis for 60 on the part of the Colorado com corn company pany In the face of these facts it seems almost incredible that shares In a company compan with no greater earning capacity share sl are for far fi r share than a company with only shares should sell for several times as much If It Beck Tunnel to illustrate Is only ca capable pable pablo of earning 2 cents a share shire per month and it has not done that well regularly for any length of time sells for 1 a share shar why should not the stock of the Utah company compan which treats its shareholders just as liberally bring 10 a share Anyhow these are things which are beginning to attract attention these days das and there Is no doubt but what they arc having weight In the stock mar markL kL Iq t Books will close on the Beck reck dividend on the and payment will follow on the Colorado pays pas on the and books close on the Oth Grand Central will wiil pay on m the and books will close tomorrow and the same dates ap apply appi apply ply pi to the Utah Mine company |