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Show BILL1DNADDED TOSTOGKVALUE Adrance in Price of Shares of Standard Oil Issues Is Immense ' KEW TORK, Oct. 1 1 Beneetlonal salna . la tlia prlroa ef eharce nf eonu.anl-s rn tha Mtsndeid lil grlis daring tha peel wk j la raeuons to tha enaoencenien' of proposed pro-posed atorh dividend's by two ronipinlw and rum-ira of aurh action by erreral more have resulted In an appterlatlon f waarly 1,-I 1,-I noo u"0,o in quoted value above tha low prim of tha yer. Tine remarkable In- ree. wllat-ut precedent In the an uai of J Wall alreei, la tha reault of eitenstv apec-J apec-J ulaiiofi which ha eat ended to ah area of lhr oil compeniee and -f eoMerns feole-ing feole-ing largo corpora ta surpluses. Hhares ( tha Ptandard V'l company of New Jeraay at yr-ierdey'e cloetng prlca of 111 ahow an Increase of ISft.wQtf.MS. Tha market vain ft tno "tenrlaTdi CM1 of Naw Vork. af Ita hlh of ywaierday. ahowad an increaaa f :;.0.m b.a tha Uw of th year, while Hlanrtard OH of lndiaaa haa a Med mora ttian Un..00v and Mianrtard oil of California fl 0.f.ioO to their quolaa. i . ,i .... .... .hi., i K ii-li. wlilrtl Wera avllt up by a der-re of tha United St a lea aupreui court Hi 1111 alao abow oub- I Manual Increaeea In appreciation, th quoted j value ainrn that lima hvin Incraaaed 0)4.00 al"0. Mnca the dailutloa tha va-rloui va-rloui unit hava diatributed mora that II. atiO.OOe.Ouo tn vaah divldanrta. wbila tha atock' dlvldnda. exclualva f thoaa announced an-nounced thta y-ar. htve a market valua or aa additional 1) 0Oa.OOO.OOO. John 1. Bofhefatier la reportad to nava rjwner 10 per rent of th aCock at tha tlma af the dlaeolmvion decree. He la known ta ' have dtapaed of a larfa part of hla hold-frrtrrew hold-frrtrrew en t-r wiawheea wf titt taTntfy." hnr. had h held hla oitsmal ahaiaa they would hav Inoreaaed apiK'matly l 000.000. 000 In eleven yea a. of whirl, n-arly 00.00.00 would have hcen added thla year. lnatnbullo) of etorte dividend! la Mid to ba be-en .landed apon to forratall a ta on undivided aurplua. which ta reported t b In contemplation by admlnlatratlon official, of-ficial, to tn.i cfa of tha eitvarumenl deflo-U. deflo-U. Utock dividend already bava bean held not auh.iect tn taxation, aa ouch, by the foiled tnatea auprem court. The aurplua account of tha mandard OH company of Naw Jeraay waa IM,121UI aa of Ioamber 11. Th Atlantic Reflnlne company holda the- raeord f..r tha laret aurplua In proportion to tha atock oat-tending. oat-tending. The aurplua at 'the beglnntnff of th year waa 1.70f,M and tha par valu uf the atock m tha handa of tha public . too. 000. |