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Show YANKEE LEVIES TWO CENTS BY ASSESSMENT The officials of the Yankee Consolidated Consoli-dated company have called on the stockholders stock-holders for assessment No. 5, the amount of which Is 2 cents por share. This assessment as-sessment Is payable immediately, the delinquent de-linquent date being May 1, the salo. day bolng set for May IS. , Accompanying the notice of assessment was the usual statement from General Manager B. N. Lehman. In which ho discusses briefly the plans for the future. fu-ture. It is likely that the management will find the 1700 level of- such an attractive at-tractive nature that sonic drifting and erosscuttlng may be done, there to explore ex-plore the mineralization now in the shaft. Manager Lehman's statement follows: "Pursuant to our custom of making a statement to accompany notices of assessment, as-sessment, the following Is submitted for the Information of stockholders: "It is tiie wish of those holding a large majority of the stock (so expressed to the management) that the shaft should be sunk a few hundred feet farther, thus opening the property to a great depth for prospecting on any level. Coincident with this, it Is also their wish that tho burden be made as light as possible by culling out all other work for the timo being. "Accordingly, a part of the extra work was discontinued about the 1st. of March nnd tho balance on the 15th. The end of March, barring unavoidable delays, will see the shaft down to the 1.700 level. It will he continued 200 or 300 feet farther unless permanent, water shall have been reached sooner. The object of assessment assess-ment No. 5 Is to nrovldo funds for this purpose, and for March disbursements." |