Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-01-08
Sudden Riches i'm California.

belonging to Hypolite Dauben for like Of
Tense.
Sudden Riches i'm California.
"THE Comstock's the place, after all,
my boys!' remarked a veteran sage.
brush operator yesterday morning, as,
with spectacles on nose and melan-
choly smile, he noted Consolidated Vir-
ginia, $780," ON one of the bulletin
boards. The history of this operator is
the history of a great many operators on
the street who have for sixty days past
been thinking, with the bears, the mar
ket is too high, must break SOON" And
yet the market was never stronger than
yesterday. If operators were crazy
thirty days since, they should now be put
in strait jackets and packed off to Bed
lam. If California and Consolidated
Virginia were in the clouds thirty days
since, now they must be reaching into
the seventh heavens. Day after day the
advices from the Big Bonanza show in
| creased values by more extensive devel
opments, proving riches before which the
treasures of Aladdin's palace and Monte
Christo's fabulous island pale. The OPP
orators who all along have had faith in
the developments of the Comstock are
in position to-day to reap rich rewards,
while those who placed faith in the Cats
utterances and sold their stock securities
urse not loud but very deep. The dis
| covery of this immense body of ore has
| already spread far and wide, and before
many days roll round there will be rep
resentatives of the whole worlds wealth
| knocking at the door of Consolidated
inia fl,o
| benefit of science. The excitement on
| California street increases day by day
and the brokers, despite their arduous
labors, are we'll satisfied with the situa
ton. And we'll they may be when the
sales in their Board aggregate on ar
average $4,000, 900 per week. The bears
have very quietly taken back seat In
| the expressive and curt language of Jack
McKentry, "They can't STAN tn pres.
sure, you know" The pressure on the
bears has been very strong-the bulls
sweeping everything before them. A
raid on few weak brethren has been
made here and there, but the entire Com
stock force presents strong front
Quite number of felines naturally
gather behind the impregnable ramparts
of the leading stocks and manage tC
keep warm. One day the current sweeps
downward toward the Gold Hill emo
only to sweep back the next with re-
doubled force toward the Virginias.
| Among the men who laugh in conse
quence of their excellent judgment" in
buying Consolidated Virginia and Cali
| fOrnia the following may be mentioned
r. N. Graves has his 5000 shares of Con
solldated laid away and slice of Cali
| fOrnia of unknown dimensiOns-the prof
it's on both of which would to-day net
him over $2,000,00O. Gen. Tom Will.
Jams, of Nevada-Sharon's Democratic
opponent for the Senate-has made over
So, 0000 00 so that when the next politi-
cal fight comes off the General will be
about as we'll "qualifed" for the Senate
as anybody. The amount of money
| made by the great firm of Flood
6 O'Brien during the last six
months must be unparalleled. 1t is un-
derstood that there are four partners in
| the firm-J. G. Flood and w. s. O'Brien,
in this city, and John Mackay and ames
G. Fair, of Virginia City. They own a
controlling interest in each of the mines
mentioned-say 10000 shares of each.
Consolidated Virginia sold yesterday
after the Board at $400 per share, and
California at $3.50. If the number of
shares credited to the firm is correct
| they are worth, in these two mines alone,
| $45, 800, 900, or trifie over 100000
| apiece. In the midst of their vast
flood" of wealth these gentlemen
have not been unmindful of their poor
friends, and there are scores of men, and
women, too, in San Francisco, who have
been suddenly lifted out of poverty
iron grip by timely hint from Flood &
O'Brien.
Many people have made money who
are not known on the Bourse. They be-
long to that class who "never touch
stocks, STRIP who send in their orders in
| a roundabout way, pretty much in the
Bourn used to do, "to cover up his
tracks," and who quietly bank their
| profits, button up their coats, and turn
up their noses when they pass California
street. Many of the fair sex have
| proflted by the excitement. There are
stock oracles among the ladies as among
the gentlemen. They get "dead points"
from their gentlemen friends, and COM
municate with each other by mysterious
signals. A few days since lady. named
Mrs. A called upon her friend Mrs B.
Stock came up for discussion. Mrs. B
said she never dealt in stocks It was a
dangerous business, and demoralizing.
Presently, in came messenger.
He said: "Mrs. B, am sent
by Mrs. G with this echantillon
of black silk. Mrs. G saws it
is cheap at any price, and you had better
get thirty or forty yards for full suit.
This brown silk may be good, but she
| doesn't know yet whether it will wash
WELL" Mrs. A didn't understand the
messenger. Mrs. B instantly arose and
said: Excuse me, ma cbere, message
from my dressmaker; must 60 down to
the White House and attend TO it ut once
as surprise for hubby; he loves black
silk" Mrs. A retired, and few minutes
thereafter Mrs. B might have been seen
entering the office of B, G s. Co., brokers,
where an order was left for forty shares
OF Consolidated Virginia and twenty
shares of California as flyer. As this
occurred week since Mrs B. can realize
quite lot of pin-money, even after divid.
| ing with Mrs. G. There is honor among
the female operators. Whoever gets the
point first and communicates it is entitled
to one-half the profits. And, as a gen.
eral rule, the points are reliable. How
the women get the points is a question
open for discussion. But Meg do.-San
francisco Chronicle, Dec. 80.