Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-07-17

All records and all statistics show
that mining is the most profitable in
dustry in the world. 4
In proportion to the amount of capi-.
tai employed and the number Of men
engaged it pays from FIVE to Ave hum
dred times as much as any other known
industry. s5
Mining is profitable because itsis new
wealth that is being created; because
man is taking from the bosom Of
mother earth the treasure Nature has.
placed there for his use. 5Ff,s
j. One is obliged to search mining his
tory for the most stupendous profits.
ever vouchsafed to mortal man, and the
records reveal such monumental returns
that it becomes mystery that every
man, woman and child on earth is not
engaged in the mining industry.
The mines on the Constock Lode
have produced $60O,oo0,0Oo in gold and
silver, and gave to the world such bo-
nanza kings as Mackay, Flood, Fair and
O'Brien, while the stocks Of the com
panies, operating there advanced from
practically nothing to the most fabulous
prices. ,sss5. *as
Stock in Crown Point went to
$1,875.00 per share. Best and Belcher
went from Coo to $1,550.OO; Savage to
$4,000; Kentucky to $545.Oo; Gould
and Curry to $4,000; Ophir to $4,000;
California from $l.25 to $4,000, and
Consolidated Virginia from lie to
$500. @'..ss i
~ The Leadville district has produced
over $3O0,0O0,000 to date and is an ex-
ceedingly live wire yet Two Of: the
mines there, the Little Johnny and the
/ iPittsburg. have paid their stockholders
nearly $400OO,0O0 in dividends, while
4 the Cripple Creek district has yielded
over $150,000,OO0 in dividends. .
Anaconda Hill, in Montana, and
which, by the way, is not such ire
rlendous ditance from our property, has
produced precious metals to the extent
of something over $8O0,0000Oo es5 4 p
United Verde stock has sold as low
z as. SOC per share, and amazing as it may
seem, has paid dividends Of 5000 per
cent on that price This great property
at one time was hawked all over the
country at $4,000, which means that it
might have been bought for one-half Of
that sum.
The lie Roi mine was sold outright
:. in 1890 for $3.50. A few years later
the selling price was $l0,0Oo,0OG, and the
stock advanced from &c to $4,000 per
share The insignificant sum of $4,000
invested in this stock has since had a
y value Of $25o,0oo, and that $4,000 has
earned dividends Of nearly $4,000.
When Gold Coin stock was first
placed on the market the price was Il
per share. This property paid 1890 pei
! cent in dividends the first year, and had
you bought the stock in 1896. every
penny invested would have returned you
$4,000 within the ensuing 10 months.
Home Mining company stock went
from 30c to- $500 pei. share in the
short space Of seven months, and Gran
lite Mountain in two years advanced
from 10c to $500 per share and in the
meantime paid nearly $15,000,000 in div
idends Ii . s.s Isl
Only few years ago capitalists
scorned to pay $4,000 for the Copper
Queen of Arizona. This properly now
pays its owners from three to Eve mil.
. lion dollars every year. Ten years age
the Bonanza of Eastern Oregon wen,
begging for the paltry. sum Of. $4,000
Il Five years ago controlling Interest
commanded the sum of 81, 100000, spot
cash in advance
Sixteen years ago Stratton located the
independence in Cripple Creek. Sew.
eral years tlaer3an English syndicate
gave him $l0,0o0,OOO for it. The Roth.
childs, the greatest money making fam
lily in the history Of the world. PAID
4 A,0O0,000 for an interest in the Camp
Bird mine Of Colorado, and it is not Of
record that they ever made losing in.
vestmerit.
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