Show assessments AND DIVIDENDS salt lake herald assessments on oil local popular mining stocks have been more numerous this year than in possibly any previous year in the history of utah mining already on such stocks the assessments have numbered this includes several assessments by an individual company during the pst past nine months if the same ratio is maintained for the nearly three months more the total tor for 1918 will reach about assessments this is compared with forty one dividends paid by strictly utah mines in 1918 last year the assessments on the mining prospects numbered eighty in the year 1916 the total was sixty eight in 1912 the levies numbered fifty nine these figures do not take cognizance of some of the more obscure stocks in which there is practically no trading As to the aggregate amount of the assessments say for the first nine months of 1918 as compared with the dividends paid this thia is a difficult matter to even approximate the assessments range from less than a quarter of a cent up to 8 and 10 cents a share most of the assessments are for 1 cent and they will average 1 to probably 34 of a cent figuring of shares to the company and 1 cent to the levy this gives an aggregate assessment for the past nine months of approximately this is only a fourteenth of the aggregate dividends paid out in the same period the big end of this assessment money on utah mines has been put right back into the developments of two to threescore three score properties it required just nineteen half cent assessments to make the tintic gintic standard the sale date of the last was april 10 1916 only twenty eight months ago cardiff was the same only its assessments were 1 cent each south hecla silver king consolidated Consoli daled co lumbus lucibus rexall and other successes were made by conservative ass and many others might be mentioned |