Astonishing Facts and Figures

Profits of Shareholders in Coal Mines

The Wellington Collieries, on Vancouver Island, British
Columbia, a private corporation, are making $100,000 per
month net profit.

The International Coal Company, organized two or three
years ago when the stock sold for less than 25 cents per
share, is paying 544 per cent. dividend on its par value,
$1.00 per share. Capital, $3,000,000.

The Crows’ Nest Pass Coal Company, British Columbia,
crganized at $1,500,000, the stock of which sold for less
than 25 cents per share, is now capitalized at Twenty Mill-
ion Dollars, and the shares are selling at par.

The above are all Western Canadian companies, not one
of which had. any — better -prospects than the Massett-
Graham Island Company.

fImmense Profits in Coal Mines in
United States |

The Massillon Coal Company, capital $1,000,000, earned
$621,000 profit in two years; over 30 per cent.

The Mansfield Coal Company, with one little mine, pays
60 per cent. in dividends a year.

The Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company, capi-
tal $5,000,000, profits for the year 1902 were $2,873,000.

The Sunday Creek Coal and Coke Company, capital $375,-
C00 earned in 1897, $351,228; in 1898, $394,425; for 1899, $617,-
123, and for 1900, $824,530.

The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, capital $40,000,000,
earned in 1899, $8,201,000; in 1900, $10,350,000; in 1901,
$12,346,000, and in 1902, $13,360,000.

The Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, capital
$10,250,000, made for the year 1899, $2,097,000; for 1900,
$2,278,000, and for 1902, $13,360,000.

The Pleasant Valley Coal Company, capital $2,000,000,
made in 1901, $2,351,701, and in 1902, $1,517,157.

The Pittsburg Coal Company has made as much as
$675,000 in a single month, while the Monongahela River
Consolidated Coal and Ceke Company, capital $30,000,000,
earned for the year 1903, $3,714,000.

Coal Mining has produced more wealthy men in England
and America than any other class of mining,

There have been few failures.