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Show BIG RETURNS COMING FROM COPPER MIKES Twenty Companies Paying Out Liberal Profits by Making Copper Available. Twen ty dividend-paying copper stocks listed on the Boston stock exchange-nre exchange-nre today tlisburstnjr at the rate of $52,375,832 per annum. This sum is boinjr paid on outstanding shares in tho hands of the public totaling to bC,67otill4, or an average of practically .$8 per share The par -value of the shares of these twenty companies 5s $350,305,550. so that, reduced to a percentage per-centage basis, these stocks aro returning return-ing in dividends 14.95 per cent on their par value, says the News Bureau. In a largo mnn'orit' of cases tho dividends divi-dends now being paid are very much less than tho net earnings so available, and it is fair to say that, considering the twenty copper stocks as a. whole, they aro disbursing to stockholders less than 75 per cent of their profits. In other words, at a low estimate, those twenty diviaend-parors are earning today to-day at the rato of $7-5,000,000 per annum an-num in net divisible profits. In gross dividends Amalgamated takes tho lead, with annual disbursements of over $12,000,000; Calumofc & Ifecla ranks second, with $8,000,000. In tho appended tablo we show the shares capital outstanding, present, dividend divi-dend rate and the gross amount of dividends divi-dends now being paid hy the twenty dividend-paying' copper stocks listed on the Boston stock exchange: 52 D o 3 5 -3 Z. us t c a c 2 o a :p i .1 2. o : Amalgmtd . . . 1.53S.880 ? 8.00 512.811,0-10 Cal. & Hecla.. 100,000 80.00 8,000,000 Cal. & Ariz. . 200,000 20.00 4,000,000 Anaconda , . . MSO.QOO 7.00 3,360.000 North Butte. , -tOO.OOO 8 00 3,200,000 United Copper . 450,000 7.00 3,150,000 Copper Range 383,31-1 S.00 3,066,752 Butto Coalition 1,000,000 2 00 2.OO0.000 3ulncy 110.000 18.00 1,980,000 tah. Coru . . 300.000 6.00 1,800,000 U. S. Smelt pfd 160.527 3.50 1,613,345 Qranby . . . 135,000 12.00 1,620.000 Osceola 06.150 H.00 1,346,100 U 3 Smelt com 350,473 3.50 1,226.655 Wolverine .. . 60,000 20.00 1,200,000 Mohawk . 100.000 10.00 1,000,000 Shannon 300.000 2.00 600,000 Tamarack . . 60,000 8.00 180,000 United Cop pfd 50.000 6.00 300,000 Parrot "1)1,940 1.00 91,310 Total .I6,675.3n$244.00f$52..r75.832 As Amalgamated owns 60 per cent of Anaconda and Parrot, only 40 per cent of the 1,200.000 outstanding shares ot Anaconda, Ana-conda, and of the 229. S50 of the outstanding outstand-ing shares of Parrot have been figured |