The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-07-17
HOW TO SELL \ NINE.

months ago man pretty well known or
++he Comstock went East to sell mine
sfEing IN the Pyramid District. lie had
map of the claim and its underground
workings all done mp nicely in pink and
blue ink and it was rs fine piece oi
| ilraughting as one could wish to see. He
sno1 his maps, traps, and samples of orc
ID New York, and began to cay for @
customer. Presently he fell in with Z
wealthy Wall street manipulation, who
wanted to get him customer on COM
mission. ''Now, look here, old man. u
says the Wall streeter, ''you are here
from Nevada, and probably little green
n the ways of the Street. You viii meet
some awful sharp men here, and you
must manage to be a trife sharper, or
ion can't DO anything. Let me manage
this thing and give me all 1 can get over
5000 for the mine.
The Nevadan agreed, and the New
Yorker took him into q room and began
to give him some confidential advice.
"Now, here's the way to manage this
thing. OF course, if you have a really
good mine, it won't be at all out of the
way to make it look big. Now, take this
nap: it's a good map, but it amt big
enough. We must show up some more
ore. I'll set an artist to put in some ex-
TIA ore bodies-just scatter them through
the mine like plums in z pudding-and
that'lI half sell it. The buyers will be
sure to discover these ore bodies after
ward, all the same"
'"Ihis don't look to me to be hardly
square, ;: said the Neyadan, with deep
religious expression. II want to sell my
mine or It's merits. [ never sold a thing
IN my life on false representations, and
I'm too old to begin now"
Now, don't get rilod, old fellow. You
are not supposed to know what l do.
Give me the maps and the ore, and let
ne attend to the business. You can't be
too tricky when you sell mine"
After considerable persuasion, the
mine-owner turned over his maps and
ore-saD1ples to the Nall-streeter, and that
astute operator went on his way. His
first step was TO get an assay of the samp-
les, and they showed up $500 to the ton.
This set the New York chap thinking,
and he went back to his Nevada friend
and asked him how high the samples
would run to the ton.
"Well, [ hardly want TO say" replied
the Nevada innocent. 81 guess them
samples you've got now are good for $35
q. SO ton OF course t jllsk tAals.es.
| don't believe in picked samples. Such
frauds are 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-Yorler drew his conclusions,
and thought it would be sharp thing to
take that minc in himself. "I've found
a customer, old fellow he said, and Gag
erly drew a check for $4,000, processing
to have found customer and made
neat turn on commission. ':Bring along
some moro mines and let me sell 'em for
YOU" he added. ''You see I have facili-
ties which you have not. Won so
around and fix up the deed
The Nevadau took the check, folded it
up, and remarked: ''Now, I hope you've
sold that mine on the square, and not
got too much for it. It's worth $4,000
as fair speculation.
The two men parted for good two days
afterward, and the New Yorker came out
last week with some experts to visit the
rich property he had SO shrewdly acquir-
ed. Arriving at Pyramid, he asked for
the Gold Run Consolidated. ''No such
a mine, was the reply that he got every
where. "Great Caesar, I've bought the
claim and paid $4,000 for it, "Got
bit, sure" ga man showed me q map.
Here it is" and the New Yorker pulled
out the map which he had received from
the seller. A crowd OF Pyramiders gath
cred round and laughed uproariously.
"That's Old Sawyer's work. Oh, he's a
smart one"
Just then Old Sawyer, the foremost
citizen of the district, and as innocent an
old mine owner as the coast ever produc
ed, came up and looked over the map.
'1t amt correct, old hoss," he said, ad
dressing the New Yorker, ''too many ore
bodies put In. "Eut there's no shaft,
no machinery, no minel" roared the man
from Wall street. "Well," replied Old
Sawyer, Fefectiyely, 81 don't see how
you can scour. The fellows who bought
it are the ones to kick. You got hand
scme commission, you know. ''But the
samples ran up to S1500?" ''Saltedr'
''I'm swindied!" Don't you know you
said man couldn't be too tricky in sell
in a mine on Wall street, inquired Old
Sawyer, and only true Christian, such
rs are reared in Pyramid District, can
understand the feeling of pious citation
which Brother Sawyer experienced as the
gentleman from Wall street, accompanied
by his experts, drove furiously off fol
lano, blasting the blossoming sagebrush
along the route with their fiery language.
4 slippery politician, on being'informed
that the leaders of his party threatened
to throw him overheard, exclaimed.
set 'em DO it if they dare, and ] VIII
slow 'em that I've strength enough to
swim TO the other side p
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