Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — MASSACHUSETTS LEADS WORLD IN SUGAR HOLDINGS. [ARTICLE]

MASSACHUSETTS LEADS WORLD IN SUGAR HOLDINGS.

Company Statement Just Issued Shows Wide Distribution of Stock Here and Abroad.

19,359 HOLDESS LISTED;

New York, Jan. 28.—For the first time in its history the American Sugar Refining company has Issued an official statement that reveals the remarkably wide distribution of its stock, and which at the same time indicates very clearly that the company is not, as . has been supposed, owned by a few men controlling the bulk of the shares.

There are 0,019 holders of common stock and 10,340 represented in the preferred list. In Massachusetts there are 6,043 individuals who own 273,592 shares of common stock and 6,221 who are the holders of 216,332 shares of .the preferred variety, which, taken at the par value of *IOO, foot up to an investment of *48,992,400. The New York representation comprises 892 persons who hold 94,967 shares of Icommon and 1,594 who own 132,628 of preferred, both amounting to the neat sum of *22,759,500.

The New Hampshire holdings run to 13,467 of common and 14,050 of preferred owned respectively by 603 and 1,318 persoift representing *2,751,700 in stock. Other New England holdings are: Maine, *1,640,500; Vermont, *743,200; Rhode Island, *1,232,300; Connecticut, *1,544,900. Thus it is seen that of the total stock holdings more than one-half, or 569,054 shares, a-re owned in New England, representing *56,906,400. The states that follow the New England group in rank are: New Jersey, 322 stockholders, with a total holding of *1,268,500; Pennsylvania, 312 stockholders, *4,851,100; Louisiana, 46 stockholders, $548,300; Ohio, 169 stockholders, *773,300; Illinois, 86 persons, value *328,400; Michigan, with 38 individuals, *106,600; Missouri, 56 shareholders, *329,900; Virginia, 23 stockholders, *102,200; North Carolina, 13 stockholders, *84,900; Colorado, 13 stockholders, *74,400; California, 76 stockholders, *225,200, and District of Columbia, 61 stockholders, *230,400. There are thirteen foreign countries represented by 4,364 shares.