Show UTAH MINE DIVIDENDS OR approximately DOUBLE PREVIOUS YEAR YEAR dividends paid by utah mining companies for the year 1923 totaled as compared with for tile the year previous this exhibit is concrete evidence of the prosperity and activity of the metal mining b industry in this state A large proportion of the increase of course is due to the fact that utah copper again returned to normal production and was thus justified in more than doubling its dividend disbursements of 1922 at the same time the mines of park city and tintic gintic made important advances in rewarding the faith of shareholders in their larger companies other companies ingin b the state registered 6 earnings b that would have permitted the payment of dividends but for various good and sufficient reasons their managements saw fit not to disturb their treasury reserves at this time in compiling the following table no account is taken of the disbursements by the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining se mining company because its payments cover all of its properties wherever located without segregation also no record is made of the barnin earnings s and dividends of senator clarks ophir mill hill properties in in tooele thoele county nor has the deer trail seen fit to make a distribution though its earnings were vere undoubtedly substantial chief consolidated is paying approximately more than in 1922 eagle blue bell doubles park city alenin mining 6 smelling smelting Sm elting 6 6 goes oes from to silver king coalition hands out nearly more than in 1922 park utah more and the tintic gintic standard as a against 6 ainest in 1922 utah copper doubles up with as against b in ill 1922 in six years the mines of utah with recorded dividends have paid while the grand total to date of utah dividends foots up to over half of which avrich has been contributed by utah copper alone the fol following lowin 9 table tells the story in ill greater detail bulles nulles NU lles of companies 1 1923 1922 I 1 1923 I 1 grand total rot al aa cardiff ardiff M R al co S 00 92 1000 00 chief consolidated 26 5 columbus rexall 79 oppy deer trail tm f 1 00 dragon consolidated 9 3 2500 eagle blue bell 1 iron blossom 34 00 park city ar S 12 00 park utah mining co 1 silver icing kin coalition silver wave tintic gintic standard 1 2 utah apex liah utah copper db ppe aa an y j dij j avo zi dividends for six years compare as s follows total tota dividends paid in 1918 total dividends paid in 1939 1919 total dividends paid in 1920 total dividends paid in 1921 total dividends paid in 1922 10 03 total dividends paid in 1923 81 total for the six si K years yea rs 16 grand total of dividends d ids paid by utah nines to date |