Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-13

pruning knife Just now. They are
growing ont into trees that look
scraggy and in time they will give US
sour fruit.
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The bold advertisement in this
paper over the signature of the Dem
yer Land Company looks like fraud
and we believe II TO be fraud We
thought SO on Its receipt and meant
10 canton our readers bat, pressed
with more than one mans proper
share Of duties, forgot il. In the first
place the careful reader will discov-
or that it is not City OF Denver 'ols
that are offered for sale at all. The
language OF The advertisement is so
constructed as to give the thought
less reader the impression that for
only one dollar he will get a Denver
lot, but on close inspection he will
lind that the nearest approach to the
city is that it is Sin immediate view
Of this beautiful city, "Well, North
Denver" might be on sand barren
fifty or hundred miles from Denver
or from other habitation and still
be Gin view Of that beautiful city"
II this should be the Gaze one might
as well send his dollar to be invested
in \ Mississippi sand bar. Another
thing will suggest itself to the care
tnl reader. 1t could not fail, OH the
supposition of its being a fair busi
ness offer to call for millions Of deeds
for lots. Is it supposab'e that any
Gland Company" could own land
enough around Denver to satisfy the
demand ? Even if they did il would
extend so far out into the mountains
aud deserts that the lots would not
be worth one cent each. These facts
being apparent the prudent nan
would not send his dollar without
first inquir;ng OF some Trustworthy
person at Denver But that Is not
the way oil the world. Probably
there were three responses to this
advertisement to one there would
have been If there were not some
humbuggery about it. Within a few
days OF the first appearance of these
advertisements an avalanche" of
letters for the "Denver Land Com.
pany" crowded the mails 10 Deny err,
many OF them registered and con
tanning postofice orders. The post.
master there did not like the looks of
things and on reporting to Washing
ton, was directed not to deliver reg
istered letters and not to pay post.
Office orders to the "Land Company"
The accompany" consists of Sydney
A. Grant, Of Cincinnati, and A. L.
Wilson and perhaps others These
have been arrested by United
States officers, but we doubt whether
any punishment other than the de.
feat OF their scheme will reach them.
The probability is that they are pre-
pared to fulfill the conditions of
their advertisement 10 the letter.
They can answer in court that they
did not offer Denver lots that they
offered North Denrer lots and were
even careful to say that North Den.
yer is ia Weld County, while Denver
is in Arapaboe county, and surely if
man is going to invest in real estate /
he would look what county the land (
is in before sending the cash for it. /
II the men are convicted of crime il
will be by some reform in legal de-
cisions and reform is needed
Perhaps we should add word as
to how this advertisement came into
the lIERBLp. IL was offered us some
weeks ago by st. Louis advertising
agency about in this shape 1--WE
will give you dollars for inserting
six inch double width stereotype in
your paper four weeks" Our reply
was that we would give them the
space for double the pay they offered
providing the advertisement was I'M.
Objectionable. They wrote again
offering about so per cont. more than
before and stated that the advertise.
ment was concerning the sale of
northern lands and could not be OBJ
iectionable. This offer we threw
away and made no reply to it. No,
hearing from us they sent the pay 10
advance stating that the stereotype
would be here in time for the
first week in November when
their contract with their EN-.
ployers required the advertising to
begin and asked, if we declined, that
we return the money. To this we
replied that "'Money in hand was
worth two in the bush and that it
the advertising was not . lottery and
did not offer competition with our
home patrons we would accept"
Then it came. If any HERALD read.
er is swindled out of dollar by il
the lesson is cheap. Unless they sent
without registering or getting P.O.
order they will get their money back,
and probably will any way. Look
ont for swindlers. The biggest
rogues have the sroothest tongues
and are the cleyerest fellows. i