Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-07-11

Selling a Mine I'm wall street.
Not many months ago a man pretty wen
BLOWN on the Comstock went East TO sell q
map OF the claim and its underground workinos.
al cone up nicely In pink and blue ink and II
Was as nne piece OF draughting as one would
pies OF ore TO New York and began TO ''lay" for
customer.
Presently he fell in with a wealthy Wall
street manipulation. who got him on a string and
wanted TO get him customer on commission.
NOW look here, old man. said the Wall
streeter, you are from Nevada and probably a
little green In the ways OF the street You win
meet some awful sharp men here, and you must
manage 10 be trifle sharper or you can't do
anything. Let me manage this thing, and give
The Neyadan agreed, and the New Yorker
took him into a room and began TO give him
some confidential advice.
Now, here's the way TO manage this thing.
Of course, II you have really good mine, IL
won't be at all out OF the way TO make IL look
pig; Now. take this map-it is good map, but
more ore. III get an artist to put In some extra
ore bodies-Just scatter 'em through like plums
In pudding-and thatn half sell It. The buy
afterwards, all the same.n
This don't look TO me to be hardly square,
SAID the Nevadan With deep religious express
sion. want TO sell my mine on its merits L
never sold thing In my life on false representa-
lions. ano I'm too old 10 begin now"
Now, don't get rtled, old fellow. You are
maps and the ore and let me attend TO the busI-
miDe."
AMER considerable persuasion. the m,ne
owner turned over his maps and ore samples TO
TIE Na!l-st eeter, and that astute operator
went on his way His first step was to get an
70 the ton. This set the New York chap think.
fng, and he went back 10 his Nevada friend ana
asked him how high the samples would run TO
We'll hardly want 10 say" replied the Ne
Sada innocent. 81 guess them samples you've
got now are good for s35 or $40 ton. OF course,
JUST TOOK an average from different parts OF
TIE mine. i don't believe In picked samples
Such naCos are bound 10 come out sooner or
lSueT, ana as I've got more mines TO sell, con-
cIu0eo 10 act pretty square and get good rep.
utation for business on the street.
The New Yorker drew his conclusions. ana
thought II would De sharp thing to take that
mine IN himself.
"Tve found customer. old fellow he said,
ana eagerly drew check for $4,000, processing
On commission. "Bring along some more mines
aid let Inc sell EN- for you he added. "You
see have facilities which you have hot. Well
go round and Tx up the deeds"
The Neyadan took the check folded it up and
remarked:
"Now, hope you've sold that mine on the
square ana not got 100 much Tor it. It's worth
$4,000 as fair speculation"
The two men parted for good a couple OF DAYS
afterwards, and the New Yorker came out last
week with some experts to visit the rich prop
eIty he had so shrewdly acquired. Arriving
dated.
mo such mine, /" was the reply he got every
where.
Great Cesar. I've bought the claim and paid
SO 600 for It."
''Got bit, sure"
"a man showed me map. Here ft isl and
the New Yorker pulled out the map which he
had received from the seller. A crowd OF
Pyramiders gathered round and laughed up
roariously.
"Tnats Old Sawyers 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 produced, came up and
| looked over the map.
cit amt correct, old hoss," he said, ad.
dressing the New Yorker. ''Too many orc
| bodies ut fn!'
"But there's no shaft, no machinery, no
| m1ne" roared the man from Wall street.
| "Well," replied Old sawyer reflectvely, az
| don't see how you can scour. The Fellows who
bought it are the ones to kick. You got q
handsome commission, you know"
but the samples run up to 81 ,5o0!"
| "Salted"
I'm swindledrn
| "Don't you know you said man couldn't be
too tricky 10 selling mine on Wall street?- In
| Qufred Old Sawyer, and only q true Christian.
| such as are reared In Pyramid district can un.
! derstand the feelings or pious elation which
| Brother sawyer experienced as the gentleman
from Wall street. accompanied by his experts,
| drove fuTiously OF for Reno, blasting the bios
soming sagebrush along the route with their
merry language.-tPTgfnia Chronicle.