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Show IT LIE BEES ARE ILL SQUARE Local Fans Come to Rescue and Meet Assessments; Every Debt Paid. Chalk up another credit mark for Salt 7i ke's pood baseball fans and the officials offi-cials -, ho have, during the last tour years, presided over the destinies of this city's Faeifis coast league interests, for, although al-though we'll admit it's a rather umtsurU pc-urrence, the Bees have put the final ;ut to their 191S closing of the season by payinir all bills and shutting up shop with a little nest ecrg on which to begin over aain after the kaiser has been attended attend-ed to. "Bill" Lane, the .snod sportsman who. as president of the Hees and because he is a pood fellow, usually gets the brunt of everything whl-'h in any manner concerns con-cerns the Salt Lake baseball club, is no longer dodging collectors or personally advancing a ten, twenty or a fifty to this or that creditor. The good fans of Salt Lake have pail their assessmt-tits and everybody is happy. On tho door of the baseball offices in the "Walker Bank building hanes a sipn bearing ine information. in-formation. "Viosed Vniil After the War." Fresidnt lane said yesterday that the s'O'-kholders had come through with their eight-dollar- per-share assessment In much better shape than he had expected: t hi' t "every dpbt haa been paid and matters have- been closed up satisfactorily satisfac-torily to a',1 concerned so that as soon as v. e lick the (Jermans we can start with & clean slate." l-ane would not state definitely whether ;'ll stockholders had met their assessments, assess-ments, but it is probable that h f-w of i hem did not. Whether they did or not, Jmwever, cuts little figure as far rs the p. cine is concerned, for there were enough '.villing purchasers for any stock that iv.ay have become delinquent. An assessment of ?S per share was Iv-id Iv-id at The close of the season by the "board of directors for the purpose of raising rais-ing approximately 51400. Ot this sum. more or It-ss, was to be used in cleaning up th-3 indebtedness of the club incurred throngh a bad season, and the remainder. ?36"0, was to be devoted to the payment of an instalment on the purchase price of the park property. The balance was intended for the treasury. The club now lias some lfi.OOO invested in the park, this being money planted in "eood old dirt." In addition, the club owns its plant and Its ba'l players, and also its franchise. All of these assets are valuable. It may be reckoned that the pi ant is worth ?'25,iX)", that the players, if thy had to be purchased on the opn market, --oidd not be bought- for less than Sir.00'. These players belong to Salt Iike and will be available, without cost, when another season opens. Dividends declared in 1rflfi and 15K, together to-gether with the money put into the park, represent earnir.es of 25 per cent on the. stk durinc the three and a half years th club has been in existence. The tasi.b.i'l nf-rprise in this i-ity Is a civic proposition. Some persons own ftCM-.k in the -lul. Wirh all old debts paid and money in the treasury, therefore tiie city enn take up itf baseball work agin at any tinu- with cb'ar skirts .isi'l with no "dead hors-s" to work off. |