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Show FOUR JACKLINGPORPHYRIES j ARE MAKING GOOD RECORDS; Results First Half of Year Indicate That 19 IS J Showing Will Be Up to Estimates Made Several Months Ago. jj With June production figures at hand i or the four JaMlng porphyrias- t'tih, f'hmo, flay and Ntvad.i Consolidated ! r. i-i po.-fiihle to K' a- f'r perpe:ue ol the irmngM for dividends, says the Boa-run Boa-run WS Hurctu. Injrinj t)ie second quarter of this year, CMufi, Ray and Nevada Consolidated re-dined re-dined r,htr quarterly dividends, Chtno ! from $1.50 to Jl, and the remaining twoi f'om tl to 7.1 -fnta, respectively. Utah maintained t'l 60. 1 I-'roni the Hfaiidio!nt of product inn none equalled in the pa.it six months its cor-r-pondin? half year output, of 1017. The r.uj.R -ont nbut injf Uj thLs decline In output out-put wtre the thinning ranks of labor, transportation contrej,tiori and the severest sever-est op f rat i n w eat her in over a genera -t ion. However, each company in the last i a-o rnonthH ha pulled up lis output to a point wh;re early estimates of lulS production pro-duction nee in likely of f ulfi!lnu:nt. Ivr pound costs as reported by each company in the first quarter of this year included a reservation for normal and 1 fXfvss profits taxes. In the of Utah , J ; this added over 3 ctnu to costs of opera- . i Taking the f ir-n fjiiart e-'if costs as a j co-.-'-aiive eMirnate of what the aver- F iiXtt f'jr the firt half of 1918 will he, it is f apparent that each company has earr.ed ? us two quarterly dividencLs comfortably j J with the exception of Nevada Consoli- I g rlated. ApainFt dividends of Jl.TS rer ; share paid by this company only $153 pr . 3 share we estimate has been earned. I I Appended table pictures production, es- ! g timafed costs and per share earnings for : J the first half of this year. In the case c of Utah we have included dividends of 11.75 per share received on its 1.00U.500 jjj shares of Nevada Consolidated, as has be-n the custom of the company in re- M porting its quarterly earnings: 9 Cost I Inc. tax. Kam 3 Prod, (lbs.) (est.) per sh Div. 9 X'rtah f5, 170.000 14.ft9o S.0 3 Chitio 40.290. l'J8 15.2S 3.80 I'.SO 1 1 Rav 5. 222.559 15.30 2.35 1.75 j Nev. Con. . .39.960,000 15.R4 153 1.75 1 |