The Newtown bee., 1879-07-23
Selling a Mine in Wall Street.

Selling Mine in Wall Street. Not many months ago a man pretty well known on the Comstock went East to sell anime lying in the Pyramid Dis trict. He had a map of the claim and its underground workings, all done up nicely in pink and blue ink, and on it was fine piece of draughting as one would wish to see. He took his maps, traps and samples of ore to New York and be- gan to ''lay :" for customer Presently he fell in with a wealthy Wall street manipulator, who. got him on string and wanted to get him a GUS toner on commission. Nov look here, old man," said the Wall streeter, "you are from Nevada, and probably a little green in the ways of the street. ou will meet some awful sharp men here, and you must manage to be tritle sharper or you can't do anything Let me manage this thing, and give me all l can get over Sl0,00O for the mine." The Nevadan agreed, and the New Yorker took him into room and began to give him some confidential advice. Now, here's the way to manage this thing, or 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 map-it is d good map, but it ain't big enough. We must show up some ore. I'll get an artist to put in some extra ore bodies just scatter lem through like plums in "a pudding-and that Il half sell it. The buyers will be sure to discover these ore bodies, afterward, all the same"
 This don't look to me to be hardly square, said the Nevadan, with a frank expression. '' 1 want to sell my mine on it's merits. never sold thing in my life on f;llse representations, and I'm too old to begin"
 Now, don't get riled, old fellow. You are not supposed to know what l do. Give me maps and the ore and let me. attend to the business. You can't be too tricky when you sell a mine."
 After considerable persuasion, the mine owner turned over his maps and ore samples to the Wall streeter, and that astute operator went on his way. His first step was to get an assay of the samples, and they showed up Sl,500 to the ton. This set the New York chap thinking, and he went back to his Ne vada friend and asked him how high | the samples would run to the ton. '~ ell, l hardly want to say" replied the Nevada innocent ''I guess them samples you've got now are good for $35 or $40 ton. Of course, l just took an average from different parts of the mine. 1 don't believe in picking samples. Such frauds are bound to come out sooner or later, and as I've got more mines to sell, l concluded to act pretty square and get good reputation for business on the | street"
 The New Yorker drew his conclusions, and thought it would be sharp thing to take that mine in himself. | I've found a customer, old fellOw," he said, and eagerly drew q check for ! Sl0,000, protesting to have found a GUS toner and made d neat turn pn cCmmis- sion. Bling along some more mines and let me sell em for you," he added.
 You see I have facilities which you have not. We'll go round and fix up the deeds" E. u .4
 The Nevadan took the check, folded it up and remarked:
 "Now, hope you've sold that mine on the square and not got too much tor 1 if. Ellsworth Sl0,000 as d fair specula- 1 tion.''
 | The two men parted for good couple 1 of days afterward, and the New Yorker l came out last week with couple of ex- l perts to visit the rich property he had so shrewdly acquired Arriving at Py- ramid he asked for the Gold Run Con- solidated. H @
 No suchmine,n was the reply he got everywhere.
 Great Cesar! I've bought the-c claim
 and paid $10,000 for it."
 "Got bit. sure.n
 s' A man showed me map. Here it l is, 1" and the New Yorker pulled out the smap which he had reeeivedg from the jsselier. Ascrowd of Pyramiders gathered
 loalnd and 1aI3ghed np1ioariollsly. That's old Sawyer's work. Oh. he's I a smart one.nse
 Just then, old Sawyer, the foremost ! citizen of the district, and as innocent an I old mine-owner as the coast ever pro- duced, came up and looked over the Fl airit,correcrsold hoss," he said,
 addressing the New Yorker. *Teo many
 ore bodies put in -
 But there's no shaft, no machinery,
 no miner' roared the man from Wall
 5ss'lss ss sv ssxyss; ssa ssa rsssst sssst ! Tie fellows who bought it are the ones
 [? kieks You got handsome commis-
 sion.s you know q
 !. { But the samples run up to l,5OO!'' ~ q Sz9tetlI, . sssasss. ssx z Gazz 1dss r .ss wind lied .''s9
 X VI you know you said, a man 5aldn be too tricky in selling mine 2 on Wall streetea inquired old Sawyer
 and smiled blandly as the gentleman
 from Wall street, accompanied by his
 experts, drove furiously off for Reno
 blasting the blossoming sagebrush along Y the route with their fiery language
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