Show JUMBO PLASTER COMPANY PAYS FIRST DIVIDEND after years of waiting and hoping the of tile the jumbo plaster an ami d cement camany were given a surprise surp riso this week when they received ie notification that on may alay lat ast 1st the iho first dividend over ever ald aid by that camany would bo be disbursed the alio notice la Is rather facetious in ili its wording and Is t as aa follows sigurd utah may 1017 1917 dear stockholder Enclosed fInd check for dividend no 1 of jumbo plaster and cement company which la is ono li halt alf cent per par share the dividend Is not very large but it beats the irish ones wo we have had to call for in ill the past wo we trust that our business will increase to such an extent that a dividend each year will bo be possible thanking you for your patient waiting and wishing you suC success ceFis wo we remain very truly yours youra DOARD BOARD OF DIRECTORS dy by lydia cowley see sec this carries tile the reaper back into the urn dim and misty past years agone it seems almost ages the reaper did establishment of the plaster industry in ili sevier county at sigurd there were mountains of gypsum the purest in the whole country test after test revealed a purity of from 92 to 98 per cent the deposit was wag unlimited and easy ot at access it could be placed at the mil laito tor for next to no nothing lhIng cheap power was needed the choson chosen was across the river from sigurd near the mouth of kings meadow canyon judge cald ester lorenzo nielson Nl elson 11 N hayes N C poulsen paulsen and several others w were e re anxious to see bee a project for or tho the manufacture nu facture of plaster launched fhe 0 services of tom drown brown and a surveyor were secured A una line was waa run from a point anthe on tho baylor river a mile south of tile the and it t was discovered that by diverting a stream and conveying it to the that horsepower could bo be developed the installation of this part of at the work rork was waa In trusted to toni tom brown A canvass aws made and means raised to buy machinery and in tho the fall of 1908 a crowd ot of interested boosters boasters bo one lone one newspaper representative a reaper man and a number of ladles ladies assembled in tile the newly completed mill broke a bottlo bottle of champagne on the fly wheel of a f the engine and launched lauB Ched the jura jum bo be plaster and cement company on a carreer that has been as varied as any industry in tho ivest has haa ever gone through and lived times without number the rocks and shoals of disaster arose in ili its course but careful pilots saved it from wreck the product of the jumbo company has hab been of tho the highest class but excessive mid and railroad tariffs prevented tho the company from being able to market its products in the sections Bort lons where the demand tor for such products Is greatest cose case lue there havo have been difficulties to overcome that would have put lesa energetic com companies panics on the scrap heap heal now the sun of success is breaking through tho the clouds that have surrounded the jumbo company and anc through tho the efficient and energetic management of IV R I 1 payne who was made man manager tiger years since when things looked blackest tor for the company c 0 mp any a dividend now looms in sight it Is gratifying to tho the people of thic valley to see sea lids industry indus try at last como come to tho the front for a 4 long time little lias has been said bald about tho plaster industry because ot at so BO many bright hopes being dashed in tile tho past but tile tho jumbo company has haa weathered all the storms mid a now looms largo large as ag a dividend producer the stockholders and all concerned should rise as one man and do honor to manager payne I 1 |