The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-08-21
Selling II Mine In Wall Streot.

Not many months ago man pretty well
known on the Comstock went East to sell a
mine lying in the Pyramid District. lie
had map of the claim and its underground
workings, all done up nicely in pink and
blue ink, and it was ~ fine Il piece of
draughting as one would wish to sec. lie
took his maps, traps and samples of orc to
New York and began to clay for Gus
TONER"
Presently he fell in with wealthy Wall
street manipulation, who got him on u string
and wanted to get him custom, on COM
mission. "Now look here, old man." said
'hc wall strccter, "you are from Nevada,
ana probably little green in the ways of
lhc street You will meet some awful
sharp men here, and you must manage to be
tr'flc sharper or you can't do anything
Let me manage this thing, and give me all
can get over $lO,0 600 for the mine"
The NcVadian agreed, and the New
Yorker took him into Il room and began to
give him some confidential advice
Nov hers the way to manage this
thing. OF course if you have Il really good
mine, it won't be at all out of the way to
make it look big. Now, take this map-it
is n good map, but amt big enough. I'll
get an artist to put in some extra ore bodies
just scatter 'cm through like pums in a
pudding-and that'll half sell it. The buy
crs will be sure to discover those ore bodies
afterwards, all the same"
'Ihis don't look to me hardly to be
square," said the Ncvadian with a deep re.
ligious expression. ''I want to sell nv
mine on its merits. never sold thing in
my life on false representations and Pm too
old to begin now"
"Now don't get rilcd, old fellow. You
are not supposed to know what do. Give
me the maps and the orc and let me attend
to the business You can't be too tricky
when you sell NINE"
After considerable pcrsuasion the mine
owner turned over his maps and ore samples
to the Wall strcctcr, and that astutc opera
tor went on his way. lie, was to get an
assay OF the samples, and they showed up
$1,000 to the ton. This set the New York
chap thinking, and he went back to his Nc
vada friend and asked him how high the
samples would run to the ton.
"Well, l hardly want to. say" replied
the Nevada innocent, 81 guess them sam
pies you've got now arc good for 35 or 40
dollars ton. OF course l just took an
average from the different parts of the mine.
l don't Ealicvc in picked samples. Such
frauds arc bound to come out sooner or
later and as I've got more mines to sell,
concluded to act pretty square and get a
good reputation for business on the street.
The New Yorker drew his conclusions
and thought il would be sharp thing to
take that mine in himself
Nlve found customer, old fellow" he
said, and eagerly drew check for 81 900.
protesting to have found customer and
made neat turn on commission. "Bring
along some more mines and let me sell 'em
Tor you, he added. "You sec have fa-
cllilies which you have not. Wen go
round and fix up the deeds"
Iiio fSo,~e;sn TOOL, tl,o nl,noly foI,,,a :.
up, and remarked:
Nov, hope you've sold that mine on
the square and not got too much for it. Its
worth $40, 0OO as a fair speculation"
The two men parted for good n couple of
days afterwards, and the New Yorker came
out last week with experts to visit the rich
property he had so shrewdly acquired. Ar
irving Mt Pyramid he asks for the Gold
Run Consolidated.
mo such mine" was the reply he got
everywhere.
''Great C@sarl I've bought the claim and
paid $40, 900 for it,"
''Got bit, sure"
"a man showed me map. Here It is"
and the New Yorker pulled out the man
which he had received from the seller. a
crowd of Pyramiders gathered round and
laughed uproriously.
''That's Old Sawyer's work. Oh, he's
a smart onc."
Just then old Sawyer, the foremost citi-
zen OF the district, and as innocent an old
minc-owncr as the coast ever produced,
came up and looked over the map.
"lt amt correct, old hoss," he said, od-
dressing the New Yorker. "Too many orc
bodies put in
''But there's no shaft, no machinery. no
mine - roarcd the man from Wall street.
"Wcll, replied Old Sawyer, rcflectivcly,
81 don't see how you can scour. The fcl-
lows who bought it arc the ones to kick.
You got handsome commission, you
know"
''But the samples run up to 81, ,500l"
"Saltcd."
'I'm swindlcd!"
Don't you know you said man couldn't
be too tricky in selling mine on Wall
street 2" inquired Old Sawyer, and only a
true Christian such as are reared In Pyra-
mid district, can understand the feelings
of pious clation which Brother SAWYER cX-
pericnccd as the gentleman from Wall
street, accompanied by his experts drove
turiously off for Reno, blasting the blossom
ing sagcbrush along the route with their
fiery language.