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Show T EVERYBODY Sixty days ago a nlne-twen-tietho Interest In the Montgomery- Shoshone mine on Montgomery Montgom-ery Mountain, near Rhyollte, Nevada, Ne-vada, sold for 8150,000. Stock In this romp.tny, of 1.250,000 shRrea, la now selling around $2 75 per share, or a valuation val-uation for the mine of $3,437 500. and for the nine-twentieths interest. in-terest. 11.546.876 In tho history of all great mines there was a period when a few dollars would have secured title. The Mollis Gibson Mining Co.'s BtOi k sold originally for ton cents per 6hare It went to sixty-five sixty-five do'lars.' It has paid twelve million dollars In dividends. CaJumel and Hecla stock sold for fl.- nollars a share It was sold a year ago for eight hundred hun-dred and sixty dollars per share. Five years ago the stock of the Gold Coltl in Victor. Colorado, was offered at 3 ients per share. In 1S9S it sold at ten dollars per share In 1892 the Independence mine nt Victor, Colorado, was offered fur sale at one hundred thousand dollars; It was sold In 1S0S for t'-n million dollars. The Consolidated California and Virginia Mining Co has paid in dividends seventy-eight million mil-lion fic hundred and eight thousand thou-sand eight hundred dollars The Alaska-Treadwcll pays one thousand thou-sand five hundred dollars annually an-nually on each one thousand shares. The llornestnke, of South Da-kota, Da-kota, returns an Income of six thousand dollars per jf-nr on every thousand shares of stock. few years ago stock In the famous SILVER KING mine of Turk City, 1'tah, sold for one dollar per share Since then, as high ns eighty-two dollars per share has been realized, and the market value la now fifty-seven dollars pc- rdiare. Stock in the DALT - WEST of Park City was sold for live dollars a few years ago. It i-llinbed after that to fifty-two dollars and Is now selling sell-ing around thirteen dollars, after millions have been declared in dividends. Two years ago shares In the Tonopah Kxtenslon mine sold at fifteen cents The market value Is now four dollars and elghty cents. Stock In the Tonopah Mining 'o.. which sold at one dollar five years ago, has since sold as high as twenty-two dollars. |