New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-15

lot 10 pay cost of making and acknowledging deed.
postage ETC." certificate of title signed by w. c..
Sanders. County Clerk and Recorder. Is appended.
TIE company explains its extraordinary liberality
follows:
As the tide of immigration is now in this direction.
pese e apd S hr 70 TRe
dees not give every lot hut each alternate one
I'm North Denver will come here but great many Will,
and will induce their friends TO follow.
The success which attended this effort may be
judged by an incidental mention in one of the re-
ports upon the subject dated November g. that egh-
teen money orders had been paid to the Denver
Land Company that morning. and by telegraphic
report dated two days later, stating that hundreds
OF ordinary letters were arriving daily, presumably
containing remittanccs of 81 or more.
The nature of the fraud may be judged by the fol-
lowing extracts from the reports made by agents of
the Post Office Department:
As understand, Z" North Denver ls tract Of wild
land eighteen miles from this city, IL is III another Wild
North Denver which itself with II the I'M
preston that 1t Is an addition or suburb to this cly
belief that they are getting property contiguous TO
The same agent, in later report. says " have
learned to-day the exact situation Of the land plated
as North Denver. II is thirty-four and half miles
northeast OF Denver and entirely unlmprovcd"
The result of the Investigation is summarized in
the telegraPhic report that the managers OF the
fraudulent Denver Land Company. whose registered
mail and money orders are stopped, have been ar
rested aud committed"
PIANOS AND COUNIERFEITs.
The unparalleled offer 4" of the Bristol Piano
Company is such q manifest humbug that it is a
marvel that anyone should have been duped by it.
A flaming poster with a wood cut of grand piano
contains an offer to send free 81 beautiful piano,
solid black walnut case" etc, TO any person who
will forward MS list OF twenty persons in their
locality who have no instrument and who you think
would be liable to purchase piano." The signf-
cant condition is appended that the person sending
the list shall enclose 50 20 " to cover expenses of
boxing, packing, ETC."
The sawdust swindle something akin to it ap-
pears III a slightly varied form. circular begin
ming " Do you know good thing when you see it 7
If keep this to yourself" sent out from Jack
son, Mich. Ii embodied an offer to send for $3 in
good money five counterfeit fves gotten up in un-
surpassed style of workmanship. and by new pro-
cess made TO appear worn and stained as if they had
Iona been in circulation.
This circular was followed in a few days by
second purportng to cmanate from the Office of the
Jackson Secret Service Detective Association, ask
ing the cooperation of the person to whom II was
addressed i'll detecting and bringing to punishment
q gang of counterlciters who had successfully
eluded the efforts of the Government 10 find them.
and whose wares were of a character to defy the
efforts OF the best experts TO detect them.
The second circular was of course only designed
as an Endorsement of tine value of the goods adver-
tised in the first. and TO excite the cupdIty of the
intended dupe to whom both Were addressed.
The Postmaster in forwarding the documents re-
ported incidentally that he had several registered
letters for the address given in the first circular.
Chief Brooks, of the Treasury Secret Service, to
whom such schemes are as an open book. first
brought this matter TO the attention of the postal
authorities. In his letter he says that like the
traditional Celtic fea." they would doubtless soon
skip away to other and frcsher fields of enterprise.