Show UTAH COPPER DIVIDEND eastern headquarters of the utah copper company operating the big porphyry copper at bingham with mills at magna and garfield utah have announced the fourth regular quarterly dividend for 1918 of per share the amount is the same as that paid on september when the figures were stated to be it will bring the companas comp anys total for the year to compared with in 1917 and in 1916 last year was the banner year tor for utah copper with a total of four regular payments of per share each together with a special red cross disbursement of 50 cents per share the company has paid 56 a share on its outstanding stock robert C gemmell Gen imell of salt lake is general manager announcement also comes from new york that the regular quarterly dividends will be paid by nevada consolidated chino copper and ray consolidated this indicates 75 cents a share on nevada con 1 on chino and 75 cents for ray the payments will likely be made on the last day of the month comparative figures of the november and october productions of these porphyries ries were given out as follows november october pounds pounds nevada con chino copper ray con the announcement includes the following comment the wall street view is that while the porphyry companies can pay dividends out of their big cash reserves there are uncertainties which do not insure continuation of the present dividends tor for an indefinite period it is not denied that copper peris is being produced in enormous quantities and that a huge surp surplus jus is accumulating |