The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-19
q MYTHICAL CITY.

= MYTHICAL CITY.
One Thousand LG Is Sold by n
svvTndEfnE COMPANY, i'm Eek
as City WhIC-1 has nO Exfs-
teHce.
Denison, Tex. News.
A few weeks since Postmaster
Webster, of this city, called the
attention of the Chief of Police of
Cincinnati to the Ohio, Kentucky
and Texas Land Company, doing
business In that city, which COM
pany claims to own large number
Of lots in Mineral City, Grayson
county, Texas, and Tnormed said
official that the Mineral City part
was fraud, there being no such
place. The Chief it appears, has
acted upon this information, the
result of which was, this land
company furnished him with a
printed copy of a certificate from
g. A. Dickman, Clerk of this
county, stating that the plat of
Mineral City, and the title deeds
thereto, are filed in the Recorders
office for the county, which GER
tificate he forwarded to Mr.. Web
ster. Captain Webster, thereup-
on, forwarded the same to Mr..
Dickman, and asked if that was
the certificate he made. Mr..
Dickman replied as follows:
"Sherman, Texas, december IA.
"DANIEL WEBSTER.
Dear sir-I can't say as to the
truth falsity of my certificates to
the Ohio, Kentucky and Texas
Land Company, as I did not re-
tain a copy; but let it contain
what it may, it was only intended
by me as a receipt for plat and
deeds filed. Its publication was
entirely unauthorized. There is
plat of Mineral City filed in this
office; also deeds. Il From E.
r. Ward to n. H. Redman. T2l
From Redman to n. Hosmer,
President Ohio, Kentucky and
Texas Land Company, for a part
of the Sebastian Frncis survey up
on which Mineral City purports to
be located yet their title is bad,
as there is no deed of record in
this office divesting Francis or his
heirs of the title. It is well
known by all who have put them
selves to the trouble to inquire
that Mineral City has no exis-
tence in fact. There is not a
house on the ground, and no mat
ter what may be said to the con-
trary, it has never been surveyed
and staked off, and there ere cit
liens living all about and even on
the ground who are in utter ignor-
ance of every fact connected with
it. 1t is known that the land
claimed as the location is not on
Red River, nor is Red River navi-
gatable as high as that point by
many miles. We know there has
never been a raiload survey made
nearer than eight to ten miles of
the SO called city, yet the COM
pany represent that their title is
good-this is lie No. L; they re-
present that the city has been sur
veyed and staked off-lie No. 9;
thatit is being built up-lie No. 3;
that it IS on Red River-lie No. 4;
that the river is navIgable to that
point-lie No, 8; that it is on the
Western branch of the NJ. K. 81 T.
railrway-lie No. 6. The COM
pany has even gone so far as to
advertise that an election would
be held for city officers, without
even q house on the ground or
man living in the city so-called.
The whole thing is a humbug
from beginning to end, and the
company has persistently, by all
manner OF Misrepresentation,
misled many people, to their hurt.
You are at liberty to make such
use of this as you see proper.
Respectful your friend,
&c. A. DICKMAN, CLERK.
It will be seen by the above that
this Ohio, Kentucky and Texas
Land Company have no title to
any land recorder in this county.
We are in possession of letter
from Stephen Young, of Mechan-
icVille, Iowa, who is DESTROYS of
locating here with his family.
He says he has purchased several
lots in Mineral City of the Ohio,
Kentucky and Texas Land Com
pany, and wantc to know if 1t
would be advisable to erect ten
ement houses on them this COM
ing spring-if Mineral City is
larger place than Denison. Mr..
Young, like thousands of Others.
has been victimized, as Mineral
City has NC existence only in the
fertile brain of rogues who have
grown rich on the credulity of
victims. This shameful swindle
has been exposed zine and again,
and yet we notice it is still being
extensively advertised in Eastetn
cities, and we presume the rogues
are yet .reaping a rich harvest.
They advertise their headquarters
as being in Cincinnati, butIwe nm
derstand that the parties engaged |
in the swindle live in Kentucky.
It is estimated that they have
disposed of over 100000 lots in
mythical city of Mineral.
Master Tommy (he had been very