Show PARK CITY AN EXAMPLE in the last issue of the mining review we made the statement that the success of any enterprise is measured by its earning capacity and coupled this assertion with the remark that this applied to mining as well as to commercial and industrial enterprises to show the truth of this statement no better illustration could be made than 1 in n pointing out what one of mining camps has done in the way of dividend payments in the enrichment of its mine owners and in adding enormously to the enduring wealth of the world the camp in question is park city which is conceded by all in anyway posted in mining affairs to be the greatest dividend paying section on the american continent the mines of this camp within the past few years having paid out in dividends the princely sum of more than twenty seven millions while its leading mines are today paying larger dividends than can be credited sto to any other mining section in the union every utahn should feel proud of the record that has been made by the mines of park city and be it said this record will be more than duplicated within the next five or ten years it is safe to make this assertion and prediction and largely because of the fact that the heaviest dividend payers of the camp at the present time are comparatively new mines whose ex existence i stence date back but a few years while a dozen or more bonanzas in embryo are rapidly approaching that stage in their development which gives promise of soon adding them to the list of bread winners and yet park city is no poor mans camp on the contrary the miner there is beset with many difficulties many hardships and 0 only an aggregation of capital backed by experience and good judgment can make a success in this section but this investment of money this battling with nature has well repaid the capitalists and the mining operator and so brilliant has been this success so richly have the mine owners of this camp been rewarded that the name and fame of park city mines have been heralded all over the civilized world and to speak of this utah camp is to acknowledge that nowhere else are there to be found a cluster of mines whose earning capacity are greater or whose dividend paying record can be eclipsed during the year 1902 the mines of park city paid in dividends or within of the total amount of dividends paid by all of the dividend paying mines of colorado during the same period and yet there are many who fail to appreciate the wonderful merit and productiveness of this great camp which is without a rival in this intermountain region in the way of profitable operation and net earnings As an example of legitimate and remunerative nera tive mining of investments par excel lence and of a future glittering with wonderful possibilities the mines of park city stand as monuments in the highway of the mining industry of the west and no one familiar with the records they have made can say that in this camp more money is lost than is made in mining operation and the same statement holds good when applied to a score of other good camps within the environments of our fair state |