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Show OWNER LEARNS STOCK IS WORTH $5 A SHARE Woman Has 1000 Shares of Utah Oil and Refining Security Bought Seventeen Tears Ago. The other day a woman came into the office of a Denver broker carrving a certificate cer-tificate of the Utah Oil & Refining company com-pany and asked what it was worth. If it had any value at all. Louis Muller. the manaser of the firm, was not posted on this particular stock, so he wired to the firm's correspondent in Salt Lake, receiv-ins receiv-ins in reply a message to the effect that the stock has a market value of $5 a share. It then developed that the woman, Mrs. Moses Xeveu. whose hushand conducts a small grocery store at 2732 West Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth street, had bought the stock nearly seventeen years ago, paying 1 cent a share for the 100O shares represented by the certificate. cer-tificate. The par value of the stock Is $1 a share, but at the time she bought it there was little demand for it. as the company com-pany was far from prosperous. For more than sixteen years the woman retained the certificates, but her curiosity was aroused the other day by hearing that there was an incipient oil boom in T'tah, and she took the paper out of its hiding place and determined to find out whether she had something or nothing. When she learned that she was worth S5000 more than she had dreamed of, Mrs Xeveu took steps to get in communication with the officers of the company and to see whether or not she had missed some divi-lends. The company is reported to be controlled by the Continental Oil companv and is engaged in the marketing of oil anil oil products in Utah. Mining Investor. |