The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-08-11
MINING swINDLERs


lIElI laO6ub ItSOuICOD dl0 push NnC
country along in the line of progress.
As a general rule these fellows soft
soap the community with plausible
yarns OF their standing where they
came from, and all they want is time
to draw on their bank accounts. In
the meantime, of course, they draw
heavily on the resources and credulity
of the people who are so silly as to
give them countenance.
OF this class Of small fry mining
swindlers seems to have been the late
w. ii. Guild, who came here about a
year ago TO settle up the affairs OF the
Exchange mine, which were then in
an embarrassed condition. He was
smooth and oily as all his class are.
TO our business men ne unfolded his
plans, ran up little bills L the strength
OF what he was going 10 do, made
friends with everybody, and from
time TO time kept putting off the day
OF reckoning, till at last he skipped
the country and beat everybody from
his washwoman up to the storekeeper
and the men who gave him money to
1 AohAA ~ 1OhAAN OAs
he left here about three months ago
for San Francisco, he borrowed all
Tho money he could from the funds of
the struggling mine he was to set on
its feet, promising Oh the word OF u
gentleman to remit 81 900 as soon as
he reached San Francisco, aud to re-
turn I'm the course of "a month with
ample means to pay off all claims
against the mine and start in opera
lions on a new scale. But his prom
ises were all broken, and what is still
worse, he never intended TO fulfill
them and knew he was lying when he
made them.
Now comes word from the East
lBoston) that this precious dead beat
has returned to his old haunts, and Is
spending the summer at a New
Hampshire watering place, enjoying
life at The expense OF his creditors.
But il seems he had higher and bet
Ter game than he found here.
The letter before us was written by
Luther q. P,tman, Of Boston, to w. J..
Haynes, and gives AL unenyiable ac-
count OF Guilds very questionable
transactions in that section. We
quote a few extracts. MIR. Pitinan
says:
II have only seen him Guild once since his
return. lie had a very long story to tell me
how he had been treated in Cherry Greek.
and how you aud every one else had beat
him. He said he was dcad broke. / look
upon him rs a frst-class blk, and | want
nothing more to do with him. . >
lie is u 50 degree Mason. and ON the strength
of this obtained money here. and to-day he
Is not respected By any Oi his brother Ma-
sons, but looked upon Us u id fraud"
The letter then goes on 10 give the
history of Guilds connection with
the Exchange Company
Q "Through Wilson he sold
.eonsideTable stock IN the Exchange and made
"A good deal oil money. Then he wanted to DO
= Director IN the company, and he was
elected 10 TINT position. 4 hon he was made
the confident agent OF the company to 80
10 Nevada and redeem ths property. /
raised 81 .OJO Tor him Oh tue notes VI the COM
pany, and they rulsed sou IN New 1Vfk 10
pay his expenses out. lilo went, but instead
Ut taxing out the pbpefs IN the name VI the
company, as be was III honor bound 10 do, he
got tue papers IN his own name individually.
wholly Ignoring the eompuny " hom he went
out TO represent. Ihon he wrote me- what a
valuable mlLo the EAcuhhkc WAS, anu tofu
ms to PICK up ali the stock 1 cgnid under 81
per shure.s
This is not half the history ofGuild's
erookedness in connection with the
Exchange Company. His petty OPP
erations here are insignificant, COIN
pared With his rasca,ly swindles III
The East. When he got back TO Boston
he said the Exchange property was
IN debt $50, 900, and 1t a no use TO
redeem IL, when in TACT the indebted
ness was only about one-itth OF hat
sum. lie also said he had paid j. I'll.
Roberts claim OF $3.50, when he only
only paid $3.50, and even that was
paid from the product OF the mine,
and not out OF Guilds pocket. In
place Of putting any money into the
property, he drew out while here,
over 81, 200 from the receipts of the
mlne, and perhaps The other little
bills he run about town and left un-
paid would make his total little game
here net him s., 900. IL is not a large
sum. but IL shows Guild 10 have been
a consummate fraud IN small as we'll
as large transactions.
IL is to men OF this ilk that all the
opprobium of unsuccessful mining
ventures should justly he laid. De-
void of honesty and every manly
principle, they rob friend and stranger
| alike, and cast odium on an other
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