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Show Mining Company Pours Out Ore Despite Returns IP ' '' ' - -: . .. , " - r x - - V . . Tmtic Standard Community at Divioend, Utan. Behind the dividend payments made by Utah mining companies for the current year is a story of sacrifice that has been made by them in behalf of the war effort. During this period dividends have been practically nil, as compared with a reasonable return to stockholders, stock-holders, paid during years prior to the war. One of the large producers, pro-ducers, which has been a big factor fac-tor in Utah mining for more than 60 years, has been forced to eliminate elimi-nate dividends entirely. Another has continued dividend payments at a reduced rate, paying its last two disbursements largely from surplus rather than current earnings. earn-ings. Yet they have continued to pour out their resources for the war effort. Within this same period corporations corpo-rations producing and manufacturing manufactur-ing other war materials have been permitted to make a reasonable return re-turn and to pay dividends out of earnings to stockholders, who made their project possible. Many of these organizations will be continuing continu-ing on their way when the mines of Utah are worked out and the communities com-munities that they support are ghost towns. |