Show amalgamated DIVIDENDS copper age butte mont directors of the amalgamated copper company recently declared a quarterly dividend of fifty cents a share payable february 23 to holders of record january 28 this makes the fifth successive fifty cent quarterly dividend so that the company begins the year 1909 on a 2 basis since it organization the amalgamated company has distributed among its stockholders per share aggregating the enormous sum of in 1908 the amalgamated properties produced pounds of copper or about one sixth of the total pi production of the united states at the present rate of output the amalgamated properties should produce about pounds of refined copper during the year 1909 it is claimed that the cost of producing copper by the amalgamated company averages about eleven and one quarter er cents per pound some of the properties produce at a much less cost but the general average will not go above eleven and one quarter cents amalgamated dividends since its organization have been as follows 1909 50 1908 1907 1906 1905 1904 1964 1903 1902 1901 1900 1899 total |