To: russwinter who wrote (2736 ) 8/12/2002 9:51:32 PM From: marcos Respond to of 8273 Expenses of cdn286k, ouch ... at least it's down from 343k last year, lol ... but then 39k seems to be provision for future tax reduction, got to count that .... first thing i'd do is eliminate the 67k for 'investor relations', i don't see what he's getting for the money ... hey i'd answer questions right here for ten per cent of that, and paid in sharepaper too I did hear a rumour that Chester can spend money like water too, when he gets rolling on a project ... not in the mining itself, of course he is famous for the opposite there, but in things ancillary to corporate machinations ... haven't looked at Alamos' recent sedars, don't know what's up there It is true that in a capital-raising project such as National, your accounting, legal, audit, trust and filing etc costs are going to be higher than those of an outfit with established sharepaper ... still, got to watch them, and other things harder, such a drain is out of place with a development stage company ... you don't need a fancy office that's for sure, a basement works fine, and you don't put out a flash annual report either, such a thing turns off prospective shareholders ... ngt doesn't do so bad in that respect though, recent mailings are simple black on white just like xcl's Six claims in the Kootenays announced today - #reply-17867305 ... committing to spend cdn400k/yr, plus shares plus warrants plus ten per cent on production decision, paid in shares .... i wonder how many shares ngt will have out in five years -g- ...... well at least the summer dumping seems to be thinning out, i find it easy to imagine the share reacting better to the next PoG upswing