Show efforts will if be made to lower insurance rates the recent dividend ot of 5 cents a share will not reach the stan dard sh shareholders shire holders in time tor for christmas but it will be welcome nevertheless the money will be sent out on december a most opportune time tor for use in the pay ment of holiday bills and the amount of the dividend is 58 5 8 the meeting at which the dis tribu tion was ordered was held on mon day of this week with the payment of this dividend the tintic gintic standard will have a total of 1 to its credit the mine mines s ore production to date has totaled a gross value of more than 10 and this amount of ore has been mined from an area feet in width and feet in length on the strike of the ore chan nel traversing the property it Is understood that this channel of extends f tor or a dis tance of 3 36 6 feet through ground ot of this company the money which the mine has paid in dividends Is by means the full amount earned during the few years that have pas sed since the property commenced production A total of 1 have been expended on two things the railroad and the mill and hundreds of thousands have gone into surface improvements and tor for machinery large sums have also been paid in federal and state taxes and it should be a matter ol 01 satis batis faction to the stockholders to know that coincident with the fruit fruition lop of plans which ought to greatly in crease the mine mines s earnings during the coming year comes the news of the reduction of federal taxes the ear 1922 should be the best in the mine a history and during that year the standard standards s new mill should add materially to the company 0 earnings at the present time the standard standards s mill is recovering slightly more than 3 ounces of silver and 1000 pounds of copper daily this means a silver production of more than one million ounces a year tor for the mill alone and coupled with the prodoc tion irom from the first elass ore shipped direct to the smelters should make the standard the largest individual silver producer in the country |