Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-05-22

All records and all statistics show.
that mining is the most profitable in
dustry in the world.
In proportion to the amount Of CAPT
tai employed and the number Of men
engaged it pays from five to five hun
dred times as much as any other known
industry.
Mining is profitable because it is 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.
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 a mystery that every
man, woman and child on earth is not
engaged in the mining industry,
The mines on the Comstock Lode
have produced $60O,oO0,0O0 in gold and
silver, and gave to the world such boz
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. ;l
Stock in Crown Point went to
$1,875.00. per share. Best and Belcher
went from Goo to $1,55O.OO; Savage to
$4,000; Kentucky to $545O0; Gould
and Curry to $4,000; Opnir to $4,000.
California from $1.25 to $4,000, and
Consolidated Virginia from lie to
$4,000.
The Leadville district has produced
over $3OO,0O0,000 to date, and is an ex-
ceedingly live wire yet. Two Of the
mines there, the Little Johnny and the
Pittsburg, have paid their stockholders
nearly $4O,0OO00O in dividends, while
the Cripple Creek district has yielded
over $15o,OO0,OOO in dividends.
Anaconda Hill, in Montana, and
which, by the way, is not such ire
nnendous ditance from our property, has
produced precious metals to the extent
of something over $800,000,000
United Verde stock has sold as low
as soc per share, and amazing as it may
seem, has paid dividends of 5000 pei
cent on that price. This great property
at one time was hawked all over thu
country at $4,000, which means that i
might have been bought for one-half O.
) that sum- z :.. Il M sS.4s
The lie Roi mine was sold outright
in 1890 for $3.50 A few years latel
the selling price was $lO,0O0,O00, and the
stock advanced from &c to $4,000 pei
share The insignificant sum of $4,000
invested in this stock has since had a
value Of $25O,O00, 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 per
cent in dividends the first year, and had
you bought the stock in 1896, every
penny invested would have returned you
$48.O0 within the ensuing ~ months.
Home Mining company stock went
: from Soc to $500 per share in the
short space of seven months, and Gran
lite Mountain in two years advanced
from 1Ocsto $500 per share, and in the
meantime paid nearly $15,000,000 in div
idends.
Only few years ago capitalists
scorned to pay $4,000 for the Copper
Queen of Arizona. This property now
pays its owners from three to FIVE mil
lion dollars every year. Ten years age
. the Bonanza of Eastern Oregon went
begging for the paltry sum of $4,000
Five years ago a controlling interest
commanded the sum of 100000, spot
cash in advance. a5
Sixteen years ago Stratton located the
independence in Cripple Creek. Sew
eral years tlaer an English syndicate
+ gave him $lO,O0O,OO0 for it The Roth
childs, the greatest money making fam
lily in the history Of the world, paid
Y $4,000,0O0 for an interest in the Camp
Bird mine of Colorado, and it is not Of
record that they ever made a losing in
vestnlent.