Arizona citizen., 1876-10-14
WOmen's Mining Bureau.
Is. F. Post, September 2S.l

Is. F. Post, September 2.
 \ new enterprise is now on foot which, from its nature alone, is of sui ticient importance to claim public at- tention. To day there will be filed the articles of incorporation Ofthe WOmen'S Mining Bureau. Its directors will be Mesdames M. D. Kellogg. II. NJ. Cook, H. $. Kinyon, E. Swift and C. J. Ste vens. Its object is very cOmprehen- slve. and embraces the manipulation of money as capital in almost every
 variety of way; but principally the Ob- ject is the buying, selling and lOaning of money on mining stocks At first
 glance it has the appearance of being the eXtravagant scheme of some over balanced wOman's rights brains. In vestigation, however, shows It tO be not sO, but on the contrary a welldi- gested and apparently feasible plan. All the women whose names appear as directors are well-knOwn as successful operators in those extremely slippery things. stocks; and to all frequenters
 of California street Mrs. Swift is par
 ticularly well-known, if not personally,
 at least by right or by reputation; and more than one broker will testify tO her astuteness in avoiding the many
 pitfalls and snares so thickly besetting the speculatnr in securities. That the ladies of San Francisco, from maid to matrOn, do and will dabble in stocks is
 most certain, and this bureau is organ ! .fT aFa.r facilities to all who choose tO become members in the obtaining of intorma- ton as reliable at least as that possess ed by the best informed of the men on the outside" Generally speaking there are three kinds of women specu- latOrs-a small class, who know just exactly what they are doing, weighing the chances pro and con, aS sklllfully as the shrewdest operator of the male sex, going on the street and finding out | for themselves the state of the market
 and making their own calculations anOther-the largest clasS-whO are in, ' deed sometimes seen on the street but who are utterly at the mercy of their . brokers, who either pluck them or wish them tO Jericho. according as the 1 broker happens to be dishonest or hon
 est. As a rule, this class remains al ! home and watches anXiOusly for the stock quotations To come around. They know when stocks are up and they are ! happy, or when they are down and they are miserable. The third class is also ! a large one and SO to speak some, what frail one, the individuals which i depend upon points from broker friends and if the points are unfortunate, why 1 they depend again upon the broker
 friend tO supply the needtul mud, and in fact this class so much prefer,
 making to losing money that the bro
 ker friend is generally obliged to ar l range somehow so that even falling
 stock shall bring a profit X rougl
 estimate puts the number of womeT |. operators up in the thousands, the great CT portion of whom are respectable. |
 is a knowledge of this state of affair
 that has led few practical women t' |. organize for the purpose of supplying a place where women can go and tin'
 all the published information regard r ing not only mining interests, but al ? sorts of business intereStS-a sort O . Merchants Exchange. in fact, with th' . specially of mining news. There Is n' intention whatever of dispensing tha
 curious thing known as points
 at this establishment. It will be sim . ply a place where published and pub ]. lie items will be gathered. An indi catOr will be placed in the rooms, en
 abling the members to follow the sale , at the Stock Board as they are made 1, and messenger boys will be kept Il F. attendance tO permit those who wisI - Co send orders tO their brokers. Mem l bership is not to be restricted 10 women !. men, also, may join and participate il 2 the advantages of the institution. Ther
 are great many ladies in this cit
 who have made in stocks sums rangin
 from $}O.OO0 to SlJ0.0OO, and many q , these have signified their intention [ I become members. Many of the leaC
 ing mining men have been talked [ | about the matter, and all have reCO2 - nIZed the usefulness of the OrganlZ;
 tiOn It deserves earnest attention b, l cause of the thoroughly practical an - business-like character of its intentions - and until it proves itself incapable c , carrying out its projects it should,
 not supported by the male portion c B the stock-irading community, at lea' , not be hindered. Atler the Bureau Ina r been got into good working Order man
 independent branches will be mad f from it. the first of which will be th . establishment of brokers office keI by women. the buying and selling b'
 ing done through some leading broke P in the board