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SWINDLlNG In MINES.

How THE TENDErFaET ARE TAKEN IN BY
MINING SHARKS.

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 24.-Lead-
Vile is seventeen years old and it has
produced more than 500 600, 600 worth
of precious inetaas. Cripple Creek has
within five years produced more than
$l3 100000 worth Of geld, and there are
half-dozen other camps in Colorado
which have turned out millions. Utah's
vast wealth of gold and silver Is just
beginning 70 be kncwn. In all of the
Rocky mountain Estates new mines are
being openea, and within the next few
years hundreds Of fortunes will be
made. AT the same time hundreds will
lose the money that they put into
mines and mining, and the old saying
that 1t takes So in work and losses to
get 81 out of the earth VIII hold good.
There is no business in which men will
risk so much as in mining, and none
into which they will go so blindly.
Managed legitimately and on business
principles believe the getting out Of
gold and silver Is more certain or profit
than four ffths OF the other business
Of the United States. How few of our
professional men make fortunes The
statistics show that 80 per cent of the
merchants fail. I am told here that
more than rs per cent of those who
use the same business Judgment, care
and time, as are needed for other
business, in working and dealing in
mines, succeed. 1t will seem STRANGE
to many people to think that you can
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Creek region, nor to Colorado. There
Is good mining territory In Montana.
Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California
and tie right man with a little money
or much money can do more business
here Just now than in almost any
other part of the United States.
MONEY IN MINES.
BY this I do not mean that money
Is to be made by careless specula ton.
Wherever dollars are offered for cents,
and big dividends are guaranteed for a
small sum invested, 1t is pretty safe
10 believe that the matter Is a gamble.
There is plenty Of money out here in
Colorado and Utah, and things Of that
KIND are not going to waste. Many
prospects, however, are offered for sale
on the ground OF their being a ga mble.
TWO men may have what they think
good thing, but may lack the money
To develop 1t. They will form a corn
pany, reserving a certain part of the
stock for themselves. and selling the
rest for development If they are hon.
est men they will tell you that the mat
ter Is a speculation, and you can find
whether they are using your money in
developing the property. If they do so
you may be sure that their enterprise
Is legitimate one. and If it succeeds
you Will get your share.
But how you ask, shall find out
whether my men are honest or not?''
2 Well, In the first place, any man who
invests much in mines ought to come
out here and stay long enough to
know how to judge a mine. He ought
to look well before he buys. and he
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should have the report of a good min
ing engineer or expert on the property
in which he invests. There are a num-
Der of such men here, and you can
easily find whether they are reliable.
IL one wishes to invest in mines and
cannot come to the West he ought to
inquire as to the relia bility of the party
with whom he deals through his bank
err. Any bank in the country can find
out through the banks Of the Rocky
mountains as to the character of any
of the men who are dealing in mines.
and both the banks and the newspapers
are ready and anxious to expose ganb-
ling speculationS. The editors Of the
Cripple Creek and Salt Lake newspa-
pers have requested me to invite ex-
animation of men and property through
them, and l do not believe there is a
newspaper editor in Colorado or Utah
VINO would not give an honest reply
in such case, and who would not aid
in exposing q fraud In buying mines
the prospectuses Of the properties
should give the names of all the mines
owned by the company. They should
state Just what has been done as to
the development of the mine, and what
Is to be done with the receipts. Item
lied figures and data should be given
and the names and addresses Of all the
officers. By means of such statements
will give any one such an insight into
the company as will show him whether
1t is legitimate one or not The chief
Judgment OF mine should be based
first on the reputation of the parties
who own it. and secondly whether the
money received is actually being put
into the ground.
SWINDLING IN MINES.
In all mining camps some swindline
goes on. Men will try to cheat in
mining quite as much as they do in
other business, and there are instances
where worthless holes have been
stocked for millions, and the shares
sold for few cents apiece. the in
corporators putting the money into
their pockets When Cripple Creek was
1irst opened there was quite a lot Of
such schemes, and 1t was hard to tell
the legitimate from the illegitimate.
The fact that prospect was stocked
at million at q face value OF a dol
lar a share, and that the stock was
sold for one cent share, was no sign
that the property was not a good one.
1t only showed that the mine was esti-
mated by its owners at $4,000, and
that they hoped 1t would bring a mil
lion. Many Of the best mines today
have been sold for one or two cents
and upward share. The Anchoria
Leland now one of the most valuable
properties Of Cripple Creek, was
hawked about at 4, 5 and 6 cents a
share. During the past year ore has
been taken out of 1t worth more than
$1,000 to the ton, and a man who leased
it has made a fortune. All Cripple
Creek mines are capitalized very high.
higher, think, than the mines of the
Mercur district. No one stocks any
kind Of q hole In Cripple Creek fer a
face value of much less than a million,
but purchasers look at the market
value and not at the face value Of the
shares. I have before me a table of
the incorporated mining companies OF
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accepted laws of verse, but it seems to
us obvious enough that it is stupid not
to know good manners or good poetry
at sight, quite regardless of the garb
they wear And for ourselves, we are
prepared to go further and to confess
that we find a charm in the very irreg-
ularity of these poems, whose meas
ure, however deficient IT. may be when
judged by hard-and-fast standards, al
ways has a subtle accord with the
theme which stamps the work with the
hallmark of art.
Apart from the debatable questions
of measure and rhyme, which will per-
haps always be a stumbling block to
the average quadrilateral mind, the
qualities Of Emily Dickenson's verse
are those Of the best lyric poetry with
an additional something hard to define
which lends the poems a dignity above
the lyric note. Some of them are epics
in a nutshell. In all of them, even the
lightest and gayest, one is conscious Of
the presence of spiritual strenuous
ness hard by. The CLINT which the
ordinary lyric has is that of ray Of
sunshine falling upon the dim places
VI TIC spirit, UuC Emily DlcKenSOn 8
lyric insight has more binding quail
ty. 1t is a strong search-light flashed
swiftly into the deep crevices Of human
consciousness and revealing strange
shapes stirring in the darkness there
There are not, perhaps as many not
able poems in the third series, which
has just been issued by Roberts
Brothers. as in the first two volumes
OF her verse, but there are enough to
make the little book a joy to Miss
Dickenson's admirers and a revelation
to those to whom her work is new.
There are. moreover, q great many
phrases and quatrains, thipgs which
can be taken out of their setting and
considered apart from it. which could
hardly be better as expesitions of her
peculiar insight and happy phraseo-
logy.
They say that time assuages'-
Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
As sinews do, with age"
is the way one Of these impressive
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tell just WHAT q mine Is worth. Never
theless this, to&a large extent can be
estimated by experts. Mines are often
sold for the amount of ore in sight.
going dewnaaaaertain, distance on a
vein and by testing the rock at the
different Levels you can tell almost
how much ore you are sure of getting
out, and you can buy the mine for this
sum with big chance o. getting more
gold further down. Good mines can
not be bought, for nothing, but proper
ly purchased, many show little chances
of loss, with big prospects of fortune
making In their development. We now
have large class Of men who may be
called mining investors. They do not
buy holes in the ground without those
holes have already produced gold or
silver In paying quantities. They have
experts look at the mines and care
fully Investigate the titles to them
before they purchase. Many of them
do not invest until they have been here
six months or year and they use
the same care as to mining that they
would were they investing in business
property or putting their money into
a manufacturing plant. svos
SOME PAYING INVESTMENTS.
There is great fascination In min
Ing speculation A good rhine. paws
so well and SO fast that the tempta-
Ation is great, and mine which has
produced something and has a good
prospect for the future is not hard to
sell. i rode not long ago with Col.
Dick Kerens, the railroad millionaire
and Republican politician of St.
Louis, from his summer home in West
Virginia to Washington During the
trip he told me of an investment
which James G. Blaine, Stephen B.
Elkins and himself made In silver
called the Small Hopes and 1t cost
us just about 100000 to buy and de-
velop it. You cannot imagin how
fast the money came back to us. We
got $4,000 a day, ION the average, out
of the mine for a period of more than
tour years years IA. ana we od have already
yer out OF it, Jay Cooke. after his
failure in .brstPess in New York, went
West to Utah and invested in a mine
there. He brought into the deal the
same careful Judgment and business
brains that he used In selling his gov
eminent bonds, and when he returned
ne organized a. company to develop
MS property, taking as his share one.
fourth of the steeE.i That fourth, I am
told. paid him more than 81, oOO. 600 and Ind
made him again rich. Senator .Hearst's
millions 'werein1aae in mines. and he
kept up his buying until the day of.
his death. He dealt in silver, gold
and copper, and made money in all.
The Rothschilds have, it IS said. re-
Gently bought his interests In the great
copper mine at Anaconda, Mont. pay
sing $T;0e0,000 for them There are a
large number of men here In Colorado
who buy mines to develop them, and
find plenty OF good investments in
the West today. The opportunities are
by no means confined to the Cripple
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The result on either side is a very
loathely thing to contemplate Mr.
Becke told us in ''The Ebbiney of the
Tide" how it looked in the South Seas.
and if Mr.. Conrad's story be as vera
cious as it sounds, the combination as
exhibited in Africa is sti lmore hideous
there are many stLong DESCRIPTIVE
passages in the book, and the psychol-
ogy of WillemS, the trader predestined
to damnation through his own self
esteem, is powerfully worked out, but
as whole the book Is extremely re-
pulsive and not to be commended to
any one who is ever afflicted with the
blues, dyspepsia, or to such as have
predisposition to sea-sickness.
Apart from it's subject-matter, the
construction of the book is faulty It
is vertebrate, but somehow the bones
are all dislocated and the modelling
of the flesh wherewith they are clad
is very defective and one-sided. It
would have been a far better book if
it had been but one-third as bulky. If
the author had made study of Stew
enson'S "Ebb-tide" he would have
seen how a master-craftsman handled
somewhat similar problem in con-
Struction. Mr. Conrad has undoubt-
ed ability, and the reading public
would be glad to see him put it to
better use than he has done in this
novel
can Outcast of the Islands," by Joseph
Conrad. New York. D. Appleton & Co. so
cents. For sale by the st. Paul Book and
Stationery company
Heather from the Brae" is. as the
title indicates, volume of Scotch sto-
ries in the manner of the hour They
are pleasant stories, pleasantly told,
but are by no means striking or power
full. Like most of the Scotch school
the writer feels his moral responsible
ty as far weightier than his artistic
obligations. We would not decrease
by feathers weight the moral Sc
robustness of any modern book, but art
and morals are by no means mutually
exclusive, and 1t would have been per-
fectly possible for Mr. David Lyall to
do his sincere. simple little tales so
that their art would have reinforced
their morals. AS 1t is, the stories are
at times rather thin and vaporish, a
literary quality which their excellent
intentions do not neutralize. We ap-
pend a bit Of description Of a room
where solid comfort reigned," which
evidently meets with the authors ap-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-27

!. Isaac Staples, the venerable millionaire
lumberman and bank president of Saltwater,
Mimi, celebrated his eightieth birthday Sept.
70, and netwith standing his advancing years
is one of the most active men in the city,
speaking from a business standpoint. Until
recently he could be found at his office dur
ing business hours every day, excepting as
at such times when he drove to his large
farms near the city or was at his driving
park, where, in years gone by, many state
records were made. During the past year he
has been feeble and has no stated office hours,
but calls around occasionally to see that
everything is moving along it should. On
his birthday Mr.. Staples remained at home
and was. visited by his children, grand chill
dren and great grandchildren, and no man
considers this greater pleasure than does
Mr.. Staples, who always manages to have
some of his offspring at his palatial home,
overlooking the city frem beautiful bluff
Just north of the business district. Isaac
Staples was born in Topsham, Me-. Sept. Is,
1876, but his boyhood days were spent in
Brunswick. At the age Of eighteen he began
work in the woods along the Penobseot river.
a vocation which he has been directly or in
directly Interested in ever since. In 1S49 he
was appointed by, Gov. John W. Dana. of
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Maine. as Indian agent for the Penobscot
Indians. In October. 1853, he came to Min
nesota for the purpose of locating pine lands
and during the following winter located an
amount estimated at 10000 acres. He moved
MS family to Saltwater N 1854 and has since
been closely identified with this city and it's
extensive interests, many of its mammoth
business blocks standing as testimonials to
his energy. integrity and business tact He
was elected president of the Lumbermen's
National bank in 1871 and still retains that
position. He was twice married the first
time in 1889, to Miss Caroline Rogers, of Old
Town, Me-, who died in 1910. His second
wife, who died only few years ago, was
Miss Olivia ]. Pettingill of Old Town, to
whom he was married Jan. 81, 1S4 Mr.
Staples has been remarkably successful in
business, and is now closely Identified with
some OF the leading enterprises in Saltwater
and Washington county, owning a Touring
mill. an elevator, stores of all kinds, large
TRACTS OF timber land and some of the pretti-
est farms in that part of the country No
man commands a greater respect than he
and he is and always has been friend to
the poor, princely giver to all charities and
an unpretentious gentleman.
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6oNeERNIN& THE wvT~s SIZES
OF EMILY h14.ss~s's
P0AE4S.
A NOVEL OF EAST AF7lcA.
A VOLUME OF STORIES By A EW
WRITER OF THE SCOTCH
SCHOOL.
MISS sERGEANTs LATEST NOVEL.
"auNiRt CriPner, CoFsf'.Fercial
1Denounced"--sis ter
AIRY N0tes-NeNg 3ooks.

Most lovers Of poetry know by this
time what they think of the poems
of Emily Dickinson, and their verdict
is overwhelmingly in favor Of these
strange verses where the breath of
New England meadows ndngles 50
quantity with the atmosphere of an
exotic knowledge about human life and
the things Of the spirit. There are peo-
pie, it is true, who profess to be un-
able to read Miss Dici1enson's verse
and glory in that inability. We frank
ly confess that we pity such people,
for their lack of appreciation is due
to the same ultra-cenvent onality which
would prevent them from identifying
a gentleman OF courtly manners if he
should chance 10 wear patched boots.
We do not maintain that patched boots
are a gentleman's insignia, nor that
Miss Dickenson's genius was made
more manifest by her disregard of the
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If there is a man in America to-day, whose
opinion OF that which has to do with the IN
dIans and their habits is of value. il is
that of the Hon. VIM. l.. Cody (Bnffalo BiD.
he years of his llfe spent with them as
government scout and his later life of success.
combined with the respect and admiration
felt for him by the entire world, make his
words an unqnestionabte authority, on any
thing to do with this subject.
" hen such q man as this, in times Of sick
ness resorts to medicines and obtains relief
by their use, that are of natures own brew
ing, made by natures own children the
indian 49, from her all powerful roots, banks
and herbs, as they themselves gather them,
twould seem that the example he thus gives
y the world should be followed and prof
ted by.
Note what ne SAYS in his own words con-
>rning the wonderful results to be obtained
the famous kiekapoo Indian Sagwa -
h1ve known of its virtue for q long
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time, and on the frontier this and the other
hickapoo Indian remedies are considered in
dispensibe. | had occasion to use Kiekapoo
Indian Sagwa for malaria and chlils with tbe
best of results, It is far superior to quinine.
| have SO used Sagwa and Kickapoo Indian
On for rheumatism and was speedily cured.
You may use my name and say that for
what they claim to do the kiekapoo Indian
Remedies have no equal Sufferers from
these troubles, or in fact from anv deranqe-
ment caused by disordered condition of the
Kidneys, liver, stomach or blood, follow this
Iltustrions mans example, get well by
sure method. Where cure is possible, a
cure is certain and that too without danger,
as these medicines contain no mineral or other
poisonous ingredients. All druggists sell
them. Kickapoo Indian Sagwa 81 bottle,
bottles for S.. Kickapoo Indian Oil, 25c..
Salve. Csc, Worm Killer, 25c., Cough Cure,
50e., Pills, 25c.
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s100 REWARD s1oo.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased TO learn that there il at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages. and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
Is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being q
constitutional disease, requires a con-
sritutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting direct
" upon the blood and mucous surfaces
OF the system, thereby destroying. the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building I'D the
constitution and assisting nature in
doing it's work The proprietors have
SO much faith In its curative powers,
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list Of testimonials.
Address. T. J. CHENEY & Co,
Toledo. O.
Sold by druggists. TO,
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On Our Book Table.
BOOKS.

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They then took specimens of this ore and
carried them to Leadville stating that they
had struck 1t rich on Mount Pisgah. There
was great excitement at once LeadviIle
capitalists went back with them and bought
the mine of the swindlers for 81. COO. For some
reason however, the money was not paid on
the gold being found was heard in Denver and
Colorado Springs. There was at once rush
for. Mount Pisgah. Mr.. George Ady, the
General agent of the Union Pacific company Of
Denver. told me that he could not get
crouch cars to carry the passengers. Said he:
We put on extra trains, and within less
than week there were thousands of men
marching over what is now Cripple Greek, to
get to Mount Pisgah. Among them were
good miners, and within a couple of DAYS
those men saw that the mine fraud.
They saw that it had been sailed. The news
soon got out, and the thousands of men came
back. leaving untouched the gold fields be-
tween them and the railroad. The fraud was
discovered before the money was paid, and
the salters had to keep out of the way for
fear of being lvncbed."
SALTING MINES.
There Is little sailing mines done today.
There are too many honest experts and it Is
seldom that a worthless property brings an
immense fortune. Still, the man who wishes
to buy mines wants to keep his eyes open.
and the expert who would judge mine cor
rectly ought to go through it almost alone
If he does not and picks his samples from
the places suggested he will be apt to strike
only the richest parts of the vein, and he
may get ore that is sailed. An average mine
may be sailed with rich pieces of rock here
and there and the result of the assay will
make II look far richer than 1t is.
good expert takes his samples from
number of places. He uses good-siZed Chunks
as we'll as small bits. and he takes them
from all parts of the hole Sailing Is often
done by means Of scattering gold dust on the
rock Of the vein the loose dirt Of
placer and there have been cases In which
chloride Of gold has been used. Any expert.
however can tell that tie existence of
chloride of gold is fraud, such gold does
not occur free in nature and you never find
1t in q mine in this shape
Sometimes samples are sailed after they
are token from the mines and the man who.is
judging mine has TO keep his eyes oDen
from the tine he gets the rock to the time
he has made his assay.
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SOME CURIOUS swlNDLEs.

You hear Of all kinds OF curious swindles
here. pipe full of ashes containing gold
dust may be dropped into a sample OF pow
dered rock ready for assaying and the as
sayer may be in conjunction with the miner
to sell the mine. Such an instance may be
easily prevented, however, by a government
assay.
In placer mining gold dust may be dropped
into the gravel almost under the eyes of the
CAPITALISTS. and they will not see 1t. Some
times enormous amounts Of dust are used.
Arthur Lakes. of the state school of mines,
in his book which was published last year,
entitled. prospecting for Gold and Silver
cites an instance where some mining sharks
spent $50 eco for gold dust. and with It sailed
a placer mine. They put up a hydraulic
plant, and prepared to work the mines by
means OF quicksilver. They brought the can
ital;sts to the SPOT just at the time when they
put the dirt containing the $4,000 worth OF
gold dust into the mill. and he result was
that they sold their mine for $250.O00 In cash.
AS soon as they got the money they left the
country, and it was some weeks before the
capitalists found that they were fooled
Frank G. Carpenter.