The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23
Great Dividend Disbursements.

Owing to the unsatisfactory condition
ot the copper and other metal markets
generally believed that 1910 would not
be profitable year 10 the holders OF
stock in American mines and metal
lurgical works. With the closing Of the
Ing from the figures available. the year.
II is believed, will close with record
Of dividend disbursements greater than
that for any year in the history Of the
Between January I and October 1, 122
mines and Inetalurgical works reporting
TO the mining board have paid dividends
si5,9I2.275 paid In the same period in 1909
by 103 companies. That the dividend
payments of these mines and works are
fact that since Incorporation they have
Yielded profits which permitted the dis
bursement among shareholders of the
enormous total OF $3.50. .sss,1t1, This is
equivalent to return of ia per cent
on the total outstanding capital OF $500
s47,7sI In addition 10 the above. there
are large profits which have been de-
clared during the nine months OF the
year by nine securities holding corpora :
tions, $40. .a92. 523, as against sl3,iS1595
during the same period In 1909. Since
incorporation these nine companies have
paid to shareholders sll3.i72, 126,
Money Value Of Crops.
Some conception of The money value
OF this countrv's 1910 crops may be OBJ
tanned from estimates just made by stat
change Of the four principal agricultural
products this year, which reach the as
tonishlng level OF s3,46O. 800 900. These
estimates arc based upon the department
OF agriculture's reports on condition.
averaging yield per acre and the approx
mate current market quotations on corn.
wheat. oats and cotton. This estimated
value of Sc $50. 500 600 compares with an
actual valuation of the same staples last
year OF 81 COS. .i3i. sS3. which was the fig.
ure placed upon them by the bureau Of
December l. 1909 or course, these esl'-
mates are subject TO correction later. and
II Is thought likely that the total value
Of these four crops VIII eyentuaIIy, DC
this year than those for last year. despite
the lower market prices for corn and
oats. as it is probable that the ACTUAL
yields of most Of these crops will be
discovered 10 be much greater than Is
indicated.
NJ. a. Carleton, cerealst Of the depart
ment Of agriculture. In a treatise on the
subject of wheat production now, and
possible future production shows how
the wheat producing countries OF Europe
have increased their acreage and steadily
are increasing their yield per acre Hun
gary, the oldest wheat country OF Europe,
has increased Its acreage from $4,000
acres I'm 1884, 10 9474 900 in 1905. How
Europe has continued 10 expand Its yield
Is shown in a record of figures. Yield
per acre s vital matter. In the past
ten years France has increased Its Yield
per acre . bushels. Austria 3 bushels and
Germany !. bushels.
Should the United States acquire a
population OF 200 900. 900 in 1850 and In
crease Its per capita consumption 10
bushels. II is estimated that by the same
process OF expanding our acreage ard
yield per acre. the requirements OF L.
400 600. 600 bushels can be met. In Can
H. 1,N1,s
ninth OF the farm area of Manitoba
Alberta and Saskatchewan to provide
80. 200, 900 acres for wheat, and With q
yield OF 25 bushels per acre (Which IS 2
bushels In excess Of present ylelds). there
would be an annual production OF
$50. 600 900 bushels.
In the Argentine low estimate for
the wheat yield in 1850 Is i50 900, ,00t
bushels, Russia is likely to increase its
Yield 500 100000 bushels in the next forty