Show t IS I rA liSTED LISTED SECURITIES HOLD BACK REPORTS I Public Misled Too Often by Absence of Information Is Contention No 0 small amount of adverse c criticism Is coming comin from the public over th thA secretive secretive secre secre- tive tI manner In which many ninny companies with stocks listed on the Salt Lake stock and mining exchange are arc opera operating tinb There are man many securities listed on the thc local exchange A that th have not Issued an annual statement In years and It is next to impossible im- im pO possible for the public to obtain any 10 definite definite nite Information concerning them thorn other oilIer than In a round about manner that is anything tIlt hut reliable It I Is claimed that It ha has too often been the case that the tho public has suffered 1 I from manipulations on the thc local exchange Attention Is called to properties controlled con con- trolled by C. C E. E Loose and William Hatfield Hatfield Hatfield Hat- Hat field which have not Issued annual statements statements statements state state- ments In tn years ears These TheBe stocks arc nr the Grand Central Albion Gold Chain Iron King and the tho o. o all nil listed on the exchange for the tho public to trade trado in In The Tho listing of or a n. stock on th the tho local exchange ex ex- change docs does not give Ivo It the tho stability that 11 It should Is the contention Instead of or making It possible for a n stockholder or prospective buyer huer to go 10 to tho exchange and anel find out all an the tho Information necessary necessary necea-j necea sary concerning any Iro property crt listed he hu Is often unable to do so Investors In have complained that the they have been laughed at b by brokers when they have o gone gono ono to get Information concerning certain listed d securities but hut If it they desired to bu buo these securities tho the brokers would make mak I the purchases without any hesitation Many Ian who have o seen the wrong that I has been done the tho public trading on the thc ho local exchange because the exchange e has I not demanded all companies to make public annual reports of their financial conditions condition contend that thes these companies I I that have not id jet eL Issued annual statement statements state state- ments monts should 1 be asked to do so and state state-I that whenever a stockholder or a prospective Investor who contemplates buying a astock astock I stock listed on tho the exchange e demands a 31 statement this shall shaH be furnished him Brokers on the Inside should ho be prevented prevented pre pro vented from manipulating stocks to their theiron own o anta ad advantage e through operations operation on the tho local exchange e. e It Is averred erred and this would not be so easy If more caution were taken in listing stocks and in keeping keep keep- ing the tho public posted on tho the financial condition of the companies after the stocks arc are listed Man Many properties have ha I been listed on tho the exchange e when the company compan putting out the tho stock has only had a lease on tho the property It has also been pointed out that lint one wa way to prevent manipulations at tho the publics public's publics public's pub pub- lic's expense Is to rule that before a property's stock Is listed on the exchange It must have or stockholders Now Non Nowa Nona a property properly ma may be listed the stock held b by a few Insiders who arc able to manipulated tho the prices and then dump lump I the stock leaving lea th ha public with a a. white elephant on Its hands and a ba bad 1 taste In Its mouth for tor the mining Indus tr try If this stock was wag well distributed I i among several hundred stockholders before before before be- be fore it was listed this could not happen so o often nor so easily as It does now no |