The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-06-11

which would be clear gain OF $4,000
to YOU as the plantation has no more debts,
but $4,000 money at hand to pay the next
years expenses.
If 20,O6O shares Of this stock can be sold
at $500 each your IS, 900 shares have decid-
edly then the same value and could be sold
too if desirable, therefore my valuation.
If a dividend Of S1O0 per share Is de
clared which in this case would actually be
the net earning of the plantation, the stock
is bound to rise in value by itself, much
more so if properly managed by men of
standing, whose interest is also equally at
stake. and therefore is my valuation of
your stock as near correct as it can be
given at present.
BY consideration Of my different state
ments you will have to admit that you
would be the gamer to n great extent and
no further trouble about money matters
An answer at your earliest convenience
would oblige me very much, rs other par
ties are also anxious to accept my prop
ositions, but will only handle in the be
ginning few plantations.
Yours respectfully,
[Signed NJ. NIEssER.
Please send your letter care of Mr.. Bush.
Alameda, January 18th, 1882.
JoHS MCKEAGUE, ESQ, Honolulu.
Dear Sir:-Having arrived
here on the 18th of last month after a
pleasant voyage in good health, | found
very soon the change In the climate rather
unpleasant, and / am suffering up to date
from a severe cold.
In regard to our corporation scheme l
found very soon out that all the parties
which had promised to invest money had
great deal to say but that is all they ever
done or ever will do in this matter, as they
are afraid of King Spreckles. Grinbaum
with all LIS promises has done nothing
yet although l believe be will come in by
and by.
As soon as this state of affairs was SUI
fcently clear to my mind, went my own
way to entire different parties and succeed
ed so far beyond my expectations and have
not the least doubt of carrying 1t through.
have now from different parties the
amount of $4,000 subscribed, all new
parties and Messrs Fernbach and Lands
berger cannot understand how was able
to succeed so quick. Nevertheless l am
fully aware that the hardest work is still
before me and that it will not only require
all my energy but a great deal of time and
money
In order to see and meet the different
parties, Iresort to small invitations for pri-
waite dinners, etc, which is all that is neces
sary to make them feel good and in thatway
force them to listen to me long enough to
convince them of my benevolent intentions
towards them in letting them have few
hundred shares
Our business menhere are so busy dur
ing the day that you never can talk with
them and consequently cannot succeed in
anything of that kind, therefore l adopt
the means which promise success, which
are expensive but apparently work the
best. We have so far not fixed the price
of the stock, IS will be the lowest but we
will probably raise it to $50 or even SO,
but that will be decided as soon as l have
the full amount subscribed.
consider ii my duty to inform you OF
my doings and hope you viii be pleased
so far, knowing very well that / am work
ing in your interest here, and can assure
Won that without my doing SO here, the
whole affair would have ended in smoke.
l have no doubt that / will have to re-
main here two months, may be three
months longer, and must confess that l
don't see how can do it with the means
at my hand, figuring up the amount al
ready spent. When left Honolulu was
prepared to use $500 OF my own money
and thought that with the 500 dollars from
You / would have sufficient to carry it
through. Now / am fully convinced that
/ will require twice the amount, and as l
alone cannot afford it to spend from my
own means must request you to pay your
share towards the expenses, as without
money nothing can be done. You have
without doubt seen enough during your
visit here, that San Francisco for such
purposes is an expensive place and that
money alone iudiciously spent will carry
IT through.
l expect by next steamer therefore e
draft on San Francisco in favor of Moritz
Neisser to assist me in carrying it through.
If we make the stock $40 your share will
be S4O0,000,twice as much as agreed upon,
but that will not depend on me alone.
With my respect to Mrs. McKeague l
remain, with the expectation Of your letter
by next steamer without fail,
Yours truly,
TSignedl MoBrTz NE1ssEB.
Alameda, California
Alameda, March 10, 1882.
JoHS McKEAsUE, ESQ, Honolulu
Dear Sir.-Yours Of the
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