The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-01
a new s,vInd.Ins De,,ce.

Hote IL IS Proposed to Ecade The Neu
Postal Lo,o-ErpldnatioR Of IN
System Adopted 6g SO Calico
Bullion Gold and SilUcr MINI,
CompaHy
New York Times
The new postal law, attaching pen
atty for sending letters or circular.
concerning lotteries through the mails
has made necessary change Of base
on the part of agents OF fraudulent
concerns, and the new device by which
ii is proposed 10 evadc the law and still
swindlc the public is both novel aud
interesting. Foremost among the lot
terry schemes, of which little was ever
known except through the circulars of
the agents, was the Wyoming, a
scheme we'll advertised but drawing
of which has never been officially re
ported. The lottery has currently
been supposed to nave been IN the
hands OF one i NJ Pattee, who passed
most Of his tune IN Laramie cav.
~ yomipg only visiting this city oc-
Ast~f tfNAEA AAA 40 ga fftiNfiAfA N-f1ifNiA'-
ia various parts Of the United STATES.
and Il Is said has made large fortune
from ihc sale Of tickets which return
ed no prizes The new postal law Fl
ieetually put stop to The advertise
meut Of this so-caiied lottery, and it
is stated, under the same agency, it is
proposed TO circulate the prospectus OF
a Wyoming mining company, .hoidins
forth most tempting inducements to
he unwary. The matter has already
become known to the postofiice author
tiles in this city, though the circulars
have not yet been seut out, and an
effort viii he made 70 stop their deiiv
ery through the mails. The prospectus,
to De issued gives the name of the
Bullion Gold and Silver Mining Com
pany, Ferris and Centennial Gold
Mining District, Carbon county,
wyoming, Isaac Ludlam, president;
u Ii Hildreth, secretary; John Me
Casey, superintendent of mines, and
states that the districts embrace many
thousand square miles, and that their
richneSs exceeds anything ever discov
cred on this continent. The circular
continues: 1T is the richest gold
mining country in the world. For
miles away up IN the heights of those
tremendous elevations in the Big Horn
mountains glisten rich veins of golden
ribbons at close intervals across their
breasts. Some specimens of gold quartz
have been found which assayed SAT 900
TO the ton-a mountain of gold ore
The grade ore works 81 900 per ton
The poorest grade works 500 Der ton
Ii seems as though the Bullion Mine
Is mountain of rich gold quartz.
which, when properly worked, would
90 Tar toward paying off the national
debt. The climate is lovely in sum-
mer and moderate in winter, is free
from Indians, and eau be worked the
year round. All tests prove the ex
istence OF an immense body of ore
l 900 feet in width, aud the croppiDos
are towering over 200 feet in height"
The document states that the company
is only organized to obtain the mean,
for the purchase of the necessary ma
chinery, and the shares (uuassessabIe1
are placed at the low figure of 81, to
induce the people at large to invest in
them; and it is further predicted that
10 short time they can only be
bought at exorbitant prices. As
further lnducement, reference is made
to the Comstock lode, of Nevada, the
early shareholders in which, in anil
crediblyehort time, found themselves
independently rich II Is expected
OF the Bullion Mine, so it j. said. that
il viii far exceed that ia the extent Of
its richness. To give the whole
greater scmblance Of truth, the com
pauy roiet 10 several prominent Off
cials Of Laramie City a. to the richness
Of tIs District. Accompanying the
circuiaris the printed circuar~lettcr
of Mr Pattoc, explaining his di-inter-
estcd connection with the mining com
pany aal The deposition 60 be made
hcreai'erof siuali priz S drawn 10 tic
W yoiufns lottery