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Show (, AUGUST MINE REPORTS SHOW PROFIT SLUMP Dividends disbursed In August, 1919", by fifteen United States mining and metallurgical metal-lurgical companies making public reports amounted to $5,702,821, compared with 510,320,109 distributed by twenty-one companies in August, 191S. Canadian and Mexican companies paid 626,514, as compared com-pared with $1,9S0,163 a year ago. The only holding company to pav In August, 1919. was the "White Knob Copper Cop-per & Development company, preferred, which disbursed 5 cents a share ($10,000). The totals of the first eight ronths of the year are these: Mining all metallurgical metal-lurgical companies, $61,466,933 'f$10o,S48,-575); 'f$10o,S48,-575); Canadian, Mexican, Central and South American companies, $10,402,370 (513,573,665); holding companies. $910,005 425, 005). Amounts given In parentheses paren-theses are the 1918 figures for the same months. Engineering and Mining Journal. |