SEC Company Response from TYLERSTONE VENTURES CORP (CIK 0001157443) — May 31, 2005
TYLERSTONE VENTURES CORP (CIK 0001157443)
Date: May 31, 2005 · CIK: 0001157443 · Accession: 0001157443-05-000019
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File numbers found in text: 333-121660
Referenced dates: May 13, 2005, May 13, 2005
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May 30, 2005
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20549
Mail Stop 4561
ATTENTION: MR. MARK P. SHUMAN
BRANCH CHIEF - LEGAL
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Dear Mr. Shuman:
Re: Amendment No. 2 to Form SB-2
File No. 333-121660
Filed on April 19, 2005
In response to your comment in your letter dated May 13, 2005, I have prepared
the following replies.
As indicated in prior letter the page numbers referred to in this letter are
those of the "red-lined" copy.
To faciliate your review, I am enclosing the following documents:
Three copies of the "red-lined" Form SB-2;
Three copies of the completed Form SB-2 without "red-lines";
Three copies of your letter dated May 13, 2005; and
Two copies of this letter.
My responses are made in the order set forth in your letter.
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RISK FACTORS, PAGE 3
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1. In response to this comment and prior comment 5, I have revised the risk
factor to include the various points mentioned as follows:
"To continue as a going concern, the Company is in urgent need of money. For
example, over the next twelve months the Company will require $8,800 for
operating expenses, $26,100 for offering expenses and $56,478 for payment to
its third party creditors. In addition, to the foregoing cash requirements, as
a minimum the Company will have to spend $3,411 to maintain the Tylerstone in
good standing on or before January 31, 2006. This is only the minimum cost
since if it wishes to complete the exploration program referred to in this
prospectus it will require an estimated $247,500. If this entire offering was
subscribed for the Company would not have sufficient money to pay all the above
noted expenses and accounts payable; being a total of $338,878 and would
therefore incur a shortfall of $38,878. Once the Company becomes a public
company, the general and administrative expenses will increase by $27,550 as
outlined on page 36. Investors should be warned there will be no money
available from the sale of gold, silver, lead or zinc from the Tylerstone in the
foreseeable future or maybe never since there is no ore reserve existing on the
Tylerstone and there is the distinct possible there will never be an ore
reserve. Presently, the Company has been able to survive if lack of money by
not paying its creditors and receiving small advances from its directors and
officers. If no money is received under this offering, the Company will have
to rely upon further advances from its officers and directors. None of the
directors and officers have committed to advance further money to the Company
and none are willing to sign a personal guarantee allowing the Company to borrow
from a lending institution. Without further advances and no money from this
offering, the Company will not have sufficient money to proceed with its planned
objectives and will cease to be a going concern within the next few months.
Investors should be aware, prior to making an investment under this offering,
there is the distinct possibility they will lose their entire investment due to
the Company having a lack of money to continue as a viable entity."
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2. I have changed the presentation of the Risk Factors to eliminate the
three distinct categories and to place the Risk Factors in the order I consider
are most important for investors to be aware of immediately. Please note the
Risk Factors have been moved to new locations resulting in them being shown as
"red-line" amendments although no change has been made in the Risk Factors,
except than No. 1, other than their location in the prospectus.
To assist in your review I have listed the Risk Factors titles below:
1. Loss of total investment by new investors if the Company is unable to raise
sufficient funds to carry on operations.
2. Since inception the Company has had limited operations and has incurred
accumulated losses of $145,834.
3. Auditors are concerned as to whether or not the Company will continue as a
going concern.
4. Penny stock rules may make buying and selling of the Company's shares
difficult.
5. The Company has no history of managing an exploration property upon which
investors may evaluate the Company's performance.
6. The Company only has one mineral claim which might impair its ability to
attract capital to acquire further mineral properties.
7. Messrs. Stephenson and Skoda are the only directors who have any
exploration experience since both Ms. Murphy and Mr. Hawkins have had no
involvement in the past with an exploration company.
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8. The directors have other business interests which might result in their not
devoting a significant amount of time to the affairs of the Company.
9. If the Company fails to maintain market makers it will affect the liquidity
of the shares purchased by new investors.
10. Having to raise money from the sale of shares will automatically dilute the
ownership interest of each shareholder of the Company.
11. The issuance of shares under this offering might result in a change of
control.
12. There is no minimum number of shares that must be sold under this offering
and any funds received can be immediately used by the Company.
13. The Company's ability to operate will depend on its ability to face all the
challenges of a new business.
14. If a market for the Company's common stock does not develop, investors may
be unable to sell their shares.
15. The directors and officers are self-underwriting this offering which will
result in no independent evaluation of the offering price paid by new
shareholders.
16. Management is under no contractual obligation to remain with the Company
and their departure could cause the Company's business to fail.
17. If the Company does not maintain the Tylerstone in good standing on or
before February 24, 2006, it will loss its interest to the mineral rights
thereon.
18. The Board of Directors has the discretion to amend the use of proceeds set
forth in this prospectus.
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19. The present shareholders have purchased their shares at prices
substantially below the offering price under this prospectus.
20. There may be wide fluctuations in the share price of the Company's share
which management has not control over.
21. The Company does not anticipate paying any dividends to its shareholders in
the foreseeable future.
22. Spending money on exploration activities might not result in a commercially
viable ore reserve ever being identified.
23. Title to the Tylerstone is unsure since no survey has been undertaken to
determine the boundaries of the claim.
24. Positive results during exploration does not guarantee commercial
production due to certain environmental regulations.
25. The Company is subject to intense competition from other exploration
companies.
26. Access to the Tylerstone is difficult and expensive.
27. Minerals on the Tylerstone may not be of commercial value.
28. Unknown hazards will increase the risk of exploration for which the Company
does not have the funds available to protect its exploration crew or insure
against injuries.
29. The location and access of smelting facilities might restrict the refining
of any ore extracted from the Tylerstone.
30. Access to supplies and exploration crew personnel might prove to be
difficult and result in additional cost and expenditures.
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31. The Company does not carry key man insurance.
With the expansion of Risk Factor number 1 under comment 1 above, I have deleted
Risk Factor number 3 under the former heading "C - Management and the Company"
to avoid duplication as follows:
"IT IS DOUBTFUL IF THE COMPANY WILL BE ABLE TO FUND OPERATIONS FOR THE NEXT SIX
MONTHS IF IT DOES NOT RECEIVE THE FUNDS FROM THIS OFFERING.
The Minimum period of operations the Company could fund, relying on advances
from its officers and directors, would be six months if no funds were received
under this offering. In the event the directors and officers are unwilling to
fund operations, the Company could not operate at all. Since the Company has
no minimum offering under this prospectus, any money raised might have an
insignificant effect on financing operations. Therefore, the only other
potential source of funding, other than this offering, would be personal
advances made by the Company's officers and directors. Even if the market
price of gold, silver, lead or zinc wee to reach extremely high prices, it would
take years before the Company would be able to sell any minerals from the
Tylerstone. Therefore, no reliance should be placed on the sale of minerals as
a means of raising funds. The Company will require $227,500 in exploration
costs, assuming not all of Phase III is undertaken, and an additional $65,278 to
pay expenses for the next twelve months which included $26,100 in Offering
Expenses.
ITEM 19. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, PAGE 43
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3. The business purpose for the gifting of 750,000 restricted shares to
Louise Murphy, Edward Skoda and myself in the amount of 250,000 shares each was
that Mr. Hawkins felt he wanted to attract individuals who have experience in
exploration and in accounting matters. As you will note from my resume, I am a
professional geologist with a number of years experience. Mr. Skoda has been in
the exploration industry for the last twenty or more years. Ms. Murphy has been
in office administration and accounting for the majority of her working life.
Mr. Hawkins is neither a geologist or an accountant although he is a
businessman. The shares were gifted to us by Mr. Hawkins thereby allowing us to
acquire an interest in the Company at no cost to us. This was an incentive to
us to become members of the Board of Directors.
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There are no formal agreements or informal understandings that Mr. Hawkins would
receive shares or other compensation from the Company in return for this
transfer of shares.
I have revised the applicable paragraph on page 43 in response to this comment
as follows:
"The business purpose for gifting the shares to the above noted directors was to
induce them to become members of the Board of Directors since they possess
certain knowledge, being able to manage an exploration company and general
office procedures, which Mr. Hawkins does not have. As mentioned elsewhere in
this prospectus, Messrs. Stephenson and Skoda have been in the exploration
industry for a number of years and for the majority of her working life Ms.
Murphy has been involved with accounting and office procedures. There are no
formal agreements or informal understandings that Mr. Hawkins would receive
shares or other compensation from the Company or any of the other directors in
return for this transfer of shares."
4. As mentioned in 3 above, Mr. Hawkins gifted the shares to the other
directors in order to attract individuals who were familiar with exploration and
administration. No consideration was paid to Mr. Hawkins for the transfer of
shares. No value was established to record this transactions for the following
reasons:
1. The total transaction was deemed immaterial since Mr. Hawkins only paid
$750 for the shares gifted to the other directors. He did not request payment
from each director due to the minor dollar amount involved. The Company
considers $750, the price paid by Mr. Hawkins, to be immaterial and therefore it
was not accounted for as a contribution to capital and expensed during the
period of transfer.
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2. At the time of the transfer, it would have been extremely difficult for
the Company to value the services to be rendered by these directors in the
future. Basically, the Company could not determine a fair value of the services
to be rendered in the future at the time of gifting of the shares.
3. Since the shares of the Company are not trading, there is no market value
which could be assigned to the shares gifted to the other directors. Assigning
the offering price nearly a year after the transaction took place does not seem
reasonable since it would not reflect the actual situation at the time of the
transfer.
4. Placing a value on the Company at the date of gifting of the shares would
have given a negative value to the Company. Even today, prior the offering
being subscribed for, the Company has a negative book value
The above noted points are the reasons why the transfer was not accounted for in
the financial statements as at the date the shares were gifted to the other
directors. At the time, it was not a material transaction.
EXHIBIT 5 - LEGAL OPINION FILED 12-27-2004
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5. In response to this comment, I am attaching a letter from Bartel
Eng and Schroder.
In closing, I would like to thank the staff for their assistance to date.
Yours very truly;
Tylerstone Ventures Corporation
Per: /s/ "Laurence Stephenson"
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Laurence Stephenson
Chief Executive Officer, President and
Director
Enclosures
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