Arizona silver belt., 1905-04-06
MINES PAY LARGE PROFITS
The Mining Industry Has Paid Divi- dends Greater Than All the Banks of the Country. Many Mines Pay
 Regularly but Never Published

make this form of investment most en- ticing. Lack of information, ignorance or malice has, however, raised against mining prejudice which is one of the greatest obstacles in the successful promotion of mining company.
 This prejudice is steadily being re- moved by the wider and better knOwl- edge among investors and the immense improvements in the mining methods. Another potent factor in removing thls prejudice has been the researches of mercantile agencies, which show that mining is not only the most prof itable business known, but the safest as we'll.
 Asa matter of fact, the losses sus tained in the ordinary business trans actions of every person are usually far greater than any loss suffered by fail ure of mining investment. Backed up by authentic statistics which prove that the failures in mining are much fewer than in other lines of business, it seems strange that investors cannot go about the purchase of stock in more businesslike way, and take such losses as they may sustain in the same manner in which they would take losses in any other line of business.
 In ordinary business every failure or loss has a cause, aud it is usually not very difficult to find, and every loss in stocks is predicted upon more or less definite and diScsrnible cause. By careful investigation and by the exer- else of a small amount of business ac- umen, investors will be able to elimi nate the primary causes of loss in mining stocks.
 Statistics have proved beyond all question of doubt that mining is safer than any other form of industry, aud when profits are compared it will bs found to excel any other fOrm of iu- vestment.
 Mining stocks paid more in divi. dends than all the banks of the cOun, try or the manufactO of the couu- try. It paid many times more than the raj lroadS of the Country, and the amount Of money invested is consid- erable less than the amount tied up in any other industry.
 The mines of the Rand, in South Africa, last year paid IS per cent in dividends on the amount invested there. Some individual mines paid as high as 1S0 per cent. Cripple Creek mines paid in one year an average of 100 per cent on the original price Of every share of stock of all it's mines. A mine in India, the MyS0rs, last year paid l36 per cent on the amount in- vested ia It's equipn5nt aud develop. ment.
 There arr several luineS in Nevada and the southwest that paid tremen. dous dividends, aud one in par ticular that paid divid ends monthly equal to many thousands per cent. on the amount invested.
 Michigan has wonderful dividend payers, and so has Montana, Utah, Arizona, NJ 3xtcJ, Ocegou aud Wash ingtOn.
 There are scores of California mines whose annual returns to stockholders is many times greater than the amount invested in the stock. Cali fornia, too, has mines owned by indi- vidualS or close corporations whose exact output will never be known. It Is certain, however, that an immense amount of wealth is regularly flowing into the cOif DTS of the fortunate own CTS.
 The advance in value and the profits thereby gained to holders of the stock is astounding and bswilder- ing. Instances are numerous where an insignificant amount invested in mining stock has made millionaires of the fortunate investors. In fact, so numerous are such occurrences that wonderful advsnces are expected of mining stocks, and the ordinary divi. dend payers are never heard of. There are hosts of mines which pay moder. ate dividends year in and year out which are rarely mentioned, yet the stockholders are perfectly satisfied.
 It may be stated that eastern in- vestors are beginning to fully appre, clate the advantages offered by the great southwest and Mexico, and now companies are investing in those sec tions weekly. In addition to the com paratively small expense attached to mining in the southwest and Me xlco there is an absence of climatic hard- ships and labor difficulties, two facts