The daily gazette., 1880-08-04
Cen. Grants worked-out Mines.
A CHARGE THAT 1T is BEING MANI
PULATED BY CORRUPT MEN.

a CHARGE THAT 1T is BEING MANI
PULATED BY CORRUPT MEN.
~ fancy that some of The people whe
are said 10 be buying stock in The Sau
Pedro and Cannon di Sagua COMPANY
of New Mexico will fave occasion TO r.
eret IT," saws Hartford Times CO .
pondeht: mot that / know a,y,hino
about the stock, or that am interested
IN beating the ma kel, but my regret ia
based on general p nciples. IF a sick-
pocket is seen ia crowd. it mai. .ers not
whether ne has just reformed or moi II
IS supposed That he will seal a pocket
book If Ohe opportunity ogers. / don't
kDow that any OF the fellows who are
working up this new sock and placing
II are p'ckpocke,s. but d. know lba1
people have cha:ged so ne of tlem with
crookedue.s in pdblic affairs, and that
Cong essonal committees who have in
ves.igared the chaIgos have reported
them fully proven. Gen Grant WIS used
by The same men then, aud although
since that time he has olieu sad lie did
not inierd to have anything TO do with
them ain, 1t appears he ras allowed
his Dfme TO be used IN he IN, beram 2
of their scheme, whether hoo, ct or moi,
Bocs S Iephetd has been in New Mexico
some months. "DeveIop;ng" this pa,-
tlcdlsr mine, of which IL Is sad tGat il
has been worked for twenty-five years.
Aoout one year aoo n 'edlcted The cleo
Cion oil Gen. Grant as tne Pres deut OF
this or some otber mining company OF
New Mexico. l also said then that .here
were res3ous Tor holting "hauds off,
this STOCK unless it was proven to have
ONE oc.et value than tue mere fact that
g ant had allowed hs name 10 be used
IS The Presid 'ut of the company.
'It hes been said by persons who
clfimed 10 ow that these particular
n mes had been thoroughly worked OF t
by thofe who formerly owned them. Ac-
corfiDg to The story now in c,rcula,ioa \
there are yet wa on loads Of wealth in
them, all of which is o be hapdeL about
10 those ircsy ones who invest in he
stock. Said mining ma1-a real min
ing man, noG one of The .elows who
VIOLA mines in the folcrrs of news
pal rs--Lo me, yesterday: IF this w.s
such big tuin2, it stiike1 me that the
few who own iL world keep it for them
selves, instead of being so anxious 10
give IL TO oil heis. Bot thel | may e
apd somel ow | always a,n
wrong about such mate a. lea' :, that
Is what some of The boys, who ave
sma er tuan P'n ap8 ,cu', way,
say
"Ex-Gov. Shepherd has b ia New
Mexico for several months. Wfeu he
ives selling tho stock in New York about
months s'nce it W said that it was val
liable on ac" '0nt of great amount Of
silver in the m;R .. " now ~ oui
hat ,he n me onia'rs gold and copper
md no sllvef. Tbs don't make ary
special difference 20 The average trapp
'f man who b"s 70 money 10 NV {, but
/ is just little peculiar.
"lL is said that Gen. BelE rap is IN it,
% are one or two OF The sops of Jot /
'he man, Stoughton aud Tom Mr"phy
1t New Yo k, ex Senator Dorsey of A.
,ans' ., Gen. Dabcock and o,he who
ave been hes.I Of teque1tly in the
'asO. From the fact that Shepherd has
emained there il is sr"ai ised that he has
'een selected 90 the general manager.
t such is the case l would just as j. eff
old my money in my own hand as 10
invest it in stock of this wonderful conf
ANY which owns such wonuerlul
nine.