Show EXTRA DIVIDEND FOR KING CON directors of the silver king consolidated mining company with holdings at park city utah on march 3rd ard declared the regular quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share and an extra of 5 cents calling for a total disbursement of on march the last previous dividend of the company paid december 31 1916 was for a similar amount velvet disbursements last year totaled 45 cents a share or the present dividend brings the companas comp anys grand total to the financial statement issued at the last annual meeting showed that the king consolidated had a surplus of on hand at the first of the year an increase of for the fiscal year the earning capacity of the company apa 0 is now being considerably augmented augment edby by th the h sale of concentrates from the new milling plant which is rapidly rounding into shape shap I 1 it 1101 1 for capacity production the coming year another important item is the alloun which the company is saving on haulena hauling charges both of ore and up freight which is now all taken care of by the new aeria aeri alof tramway early shipments of concentrates showell 0 values running from 71 to 80 a a ton ditl a gradual increase apparent the seconda second 1 I class dump at the property contains i tons of material carrying values 00 q from 11 to 15 a ton which can be delavior deli vIor ered at the mill by the tramway at a cos i not to exceed 25 cents a ton this mates rial is now being sent through the pla planta n t I 1 I 1 the new deep drainage tunnel has reached reache cl t a depth of approximately 2300 f feet and i I 1 2 going ahead about twelve feet a day geirse 4 eral manager ishlon spiro is justified in t hu opinion that the prospects of the C compana ompa ill for the future are of the brightest i i |