Show MINES AND MINING I EDITED BY F. F W. W SPRAGUE MINES PAY DIVIDENDS DESPITE QUIET TIME TIMI Enormous Total of Distributed in Seven Months This Year COPPERS A AS USUAL LEAD LEAC Gold Bold Silver Lead Mines 1 Capitalized for More Pa Pay Smaller Rate F For 60 metal mines and anil works in tho United States to pa pay dividends to the large lage total of or 24 4 for seven EC months this year yeara yearn a n a period o ot of low prices and curtailed consumption SM lf is indisputable t testimony sU- sU mOi mony of oC tho extraordinary profits that aro ro being earned in JH tho great rent mineral min mm- eral Industry tn By a n. n careful tho the Mining World hafl hM acer ascer ascertained that these o 60 corporations with varying from to havo have since their organization distributed dividends divi I lends among amonI their numerous share shareholders holders to tho the enormous total al of ot On oi the tu issued capitali capitalisation of tho the dividends R jad thus far tar show a n return of ot 11 per per cent which may mRY rightly he called called- the called the he ma magnet net that hat has lias ha attracted 9 O many mom investors in mining and 1 metallurgical shares Be Besides thu tho lar largo large o dividends de- de declared de dc- dared by hy tho the mIH milieu and works there Js being distributed at 1 regular Intervals Inter Inter- vals vast profits b by In corporations iwho e revenue is Js obtained chiefly chicO from tho which thc they own in op operating mines mine an and works For In- In during the first seven this year five ho of or thc these e securities hoKl- hoKl itu corporations paid amounting to Sinco their organisation aton tH these gO live s holdIng hold- hold tn Ing corporations have declared In Iii dividends no flO leps than Is it It equivalent mt to a n return of or over vcr SO 30 p per cent on tho the outstanding share sharI capital of or Still another o of or largo large profit to Investors is tho the stock in fn metal sell selling Bel- Bel lug ing corporations co the thc United which on commissions the thc product of ot tho the Amalgamated Copper company and other largo large corpora corpora- The United Metals Selling company capitalized at in 1 1900 f 0 O. O has declared I dividends nl of 6 6 of ot which i hns hes been leen paid this flits year eal Sha Share r lm lt t FrotHs t By far the tho lar largest est dividends ar arc ale being paid pale by II th tho copper mines whoso whose ca vary an from tron to For tho the seven sovel months this year YonI I 16 6 copper IInO declared dividends of oC making a grand total of o or per cent ent on au nn an I capitalization of or 0 organization n Iza lon ton Tho The Calumet fc Hecla mine which is 18 i controlled t I by few fow Oi has hM paid dividends since sirico 1871 amounting to tp fald the tho enormous um sum of or Wona onn capitalization So SQ far IJ year 31 fe Hecht JutS has paid Iii in il dividends the lust last quarterly being at itt 11 the rain ralo of or 80 SO pec cent per annum on par or about aboul market cent on the current 3 per nent c quotation 1 1 of G CI O per share h The Tho Anaconda of Montana owned h by tho the Amalgamated Copper company paid year Ocar H d car its Ils making stockholders a grand total of 40 HO- this 1 I on capitalization Incorporation In Tho The Montana another tal Amalga- Amalga a- a Boston this came forward orward mated prodigy Y In tn dividends making mak mal with year in ing eRr a n t wih total of on 01 capitalization since 1887 The United Verde mine In Arizona controlled largely b by W W. 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A Clark paid patti dividends this year of or making maln l a total of or on since organization organ oran capitalization in Iti 1899 1890 Tho rho Arizona Copper ho company whose in shares owned principally in fn Great Britain has aro are declared dividends this year car amounting to making a total of or 14 since lead leaa 1884 mines The gold bold sliver an and considerably capitalized at h thou though properties in inconsequence inconsequence than the copper moro more proportionately pay cons consequence dividends to their greater smaller of di stockholders During Durin the number l car 35 gold old months this year first seven sven announced dividends divi sliver silver and lead mines 11 1 siver making a n total of capital capital- issued on an o of hatlon of or since ton Is II t. t. t rite Tho foremost dividend payer in this I Is h the the famous low group 1 grade gold old wine mine In the Black macle Hills His Hisor nt or a arade South rade Dakota for Cor seven months It yielded 10 OO making this ear year organization of since total a a ot issued capital IH 11 present tion tho the declares de de- de- de lol S The dividends at the rato rate dares clares monthly cares on par ol or 6 per ncr cent pet por pc annum market 80 the tho current curent or 7 7 on 01 Alaska The great value Alaska Island gold old mine on Douglas dividends tillS thia year ear disbursed in Of making a a total 94 00 0 on oil capitalization since Ince on organization Hill Sullivan silver silver- Bunker nn The Tho tho the Hi Coeur dAleno dis- dis in lit lend lead mine spine leod at nt capitalized triet Idaho oar making male mak this year i has IJas declared dividends to late date 10 0 S In lag ing tho total are arc makIng maica malt mak- i Tho The Nevada and tho the return a lug Ing a bettor better showing ml 11 heler to tiLe the dividend I Mining of Miling 25 21 cents cent with or Of list In July uly quoted now share per 1 1 par total to H Its around 8 brings capitalization of oC on 01 metallurgical a a ical works generally i The rho guaranteed dividends divi continue to pay their or ur discontinued i reduced have j but other stocks as UK a I ud na payment S ment iA on Oil 01 l condition of ot result in 01 II in II of or these O Six ix the metal market tH this l to July January rul rom from dividends t of oC f declared year on I of oC total making nakIn a 77 capitalization issued 4 2 American Tho The org organization company I Is hi now Refining S Smelting at tho the Ialo of or 7 per percent paying dividends itS preferred tock c cent Jt per ncr annum cent on on OR the tho 18 common both I i 4 per PO O for J and has distributed fO par grand a a. making thin 6 year total of or on an been a a capit-aliza capit capitalization d df tion that has hR gradually in ill I lon to lo since organization Smelting f States 1809 The Tho United Is 18 paying 19 company Mining Refining cent ft dividends at tho the rajo rao of 7 stock per pel and lt HH preferred on 01 per ver annum It common both bolh par tho 4 P per cent on un this tIllS year J fat far o i and ban hal distributed U KO so total of or 8 5 04 making issued a capital I Ij on 1 DOG 1006 in III March darch 1106 or organization believe that to There IK IF IF reason h by I ho bo declared larger dividend works work H will wi during durin tho the closing and anel of tho lie year cRr wh m lne h business J JJ months n ft l to show Rho generally io h IK expected J marked improvement S |