The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1892-01-27
GREEN GOODS.
Heinous Devils of New York Attempt to
HoodWink the UnWarY.

fiends of New York city and else
where dispose of their counterfeit
U. S. Treasury notes, we reprint what
purports to be written strictly conf
dentialty and anonymously, and sent
to the young men throughout the
country. One instance, in particular,
which came under our Immediate OBJ
servation, attracted our unusual at
tention, as the sharpers were so per-
sistent in their efforts to secure the
young man as an agent in town of
this county, that they sent him four
different letters in one month. The
letters are represented as having come
from four different firms, yet on their
faces they show plainly that they are
from one and the same house. The
supposed newspaper clipping referred
to, because of its extreme length can
not here be reprinted, but it goes on
to relate how many poor persons have
suddenly acquired untold wealth by
dealing in what they are pleased to
style green goods. The clippings are
not from newspapers, but printed to
order, showing where the scissors are
supposed to have cut the columns
on either side, leaving margin of
about quarter OF an inch. The
sharpers decline to receive any letters
whatsoever, but send private tele-
gram which you are to use if you
wish to do business with them. They
then reply, and some place outside of
New York city is appointed for the
designation. The three kilograms be-
fore us read as follows, respectively !:
(No. ~ G.. Lewis, 1885 Third
Avenue, N. Y. City. Mail me copy
of Guard Number. SO Tom.
(No. % Mr.. VIM. Homer, in care
of Keller, 522 Pearl St., N. Y. Send
terms. l. y. U.
(No. 3.) NJ. f. Bedford, Byron
town, Penn. "B" has gone to Chicago.
Sign your own name.
We return the confidential letter
to our correspondent after putting it
in type. The young man is going to
bundle up the four letters, clippings,
kilograms, envelopes and the whole
business and forward them to the
Chief of Police in New York City.
Quite commendable plan. But here
is the strictly confidential letter."
CONFIDENTIAL.
DEAR SIR: lam DESTROYS of obtain
ing a shrewd agent in your locality to
handle my goods" | enclose here
with a newspaper clipping, which
gives all the information that could
be desired and explains itself. Think
ing you are in position to handle
my goods safely have concluded to
write you, and if you don't care to
invest in this enterprise hope you
will excuse the liberty have taken
in making the proposition. j have q
very superior article of the kind, in
fact, the very best ever issued or put
on the market; the sizes run from
one to twenty. l warrant each and
every note to be perfect as to paper,
coloring, vignette, printing, engrav-
ing and signatures, and when made
to appear as having been used or
handled much, defy the best bank
clerk or expert to tell them from the
genuine. 1t has cost me great deal
OF time and money to perfect these
goods and / have at last succeeded
where others have failed, in pro-
ducing the genuine fibre paper. My
stock now is as neat and perfect as
human skill can make it and absolute
ly no risk in using it. Remember,
this is an article that will go any
where and everywhere, leaving for
you a net profit of from ten to twelve
hundred per cent, according to the
amount you buy. These goods can
not be detected in the ordinary course
of trade, and only at the Treasury in
Washington through the duplication
of the numbers, and not then if the
genuine bill of the same number is
still in circulation, so that they are
really as good as gold. Now, my
friend Gas / will take the liberty of
calling you), we are strangers to one
another, but ii you are DESTROYS OF
handling these goods, and will come
here to see me, you will find me a
square white man in all my dealings,
as my manner of doing business will