The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-11-21
ONLY A DREAM


Wharves on the Delaware-An
Electric Railway One OF the
Possibi!tles-Gold Found in
Paying Quantities in the Della
ware River.
A Reporter of the REPUBLICASeone
night recently attended banquet given
by the promoters of n scheme whereby
everybody who went into 1t was to be
male rich The spread was all that one
could wish for, everything calculated to
tickle the palate, was on hand with
generous supply of something In tho liquid
line to wash 1t all down. After returning
home disroblng and retiring for the
night the scribe Immediately went oil into
u deep slumber. He thought he saw in
Vulnerable men with pleased expressions
on their faces. The reporter asked them
the cause of their good cheer, when they
answered that several well known
Wilmington men were getting up big
scheme for digging gold out of the Della.
waro river opposite the Cherry Island
marsh.
That prospectors had been engaged for
some time In digging and had found sew.
eral excellent specimens OF gold quartz,
which had heen taken to Frank Roop
Smith, the analytical chemist, who had
pronounced the specimens the finest ne
had ever seen. A company was helng
formed to be known MS the Greater Della
ware Gold Mining Company with paid
UP capital Of 5000 600 in shares OF $50 each.
Whnryes would he built so as to enablo
large vessels TO load tho ore for England
Then an electric railway had been con-
tracted for and busine would fairly boom
in Wilmington inside Of three months.
Wilmington is full of moniel men who
can be easily induced to go into almost
any scheme for making money. why, dla
not our citizens hold thousands OF shares
of the Baxter Mining stock, which sold
oil the way from nothing up TO 70 share,
and besides broke up several OF our. .well'to'
do menY
Then the marvellous Marion land boom,
and the equally famous Piedmont, the
bonds Of which are yet held by some OF our
enthusiastic capitalists, who are patiently
waiting for the boom to break forth in all
its etfcrvesceuce of glory. The Dayton
Hedge Company, the promoters OF which
gave such delightful trips over into New
Jersey and then fed the mon 80 sumptu-
ously, arc now remembered with anything
but gratitude by those who partook OF
them, and then invcs ed their good money.
This company we believe paid dividend
on two occasions, and then the money
gave out, and SO has the company MS far
as dividends are copcarnod.
Then the guaranteed Debenture bonds
of Western land and property, took thou,
sands Of dollars away from our city. IL er
owners are still mourning over their prin-
cipal with poor show Of ever receiving
fifty cents on the dollar leave alone the
ten cent. guaranteed, which was the ln-
ducement held out that tempted them in
to making the Investments. All these suo
cessful ventures Of our people lifted
through the brain of the tired and restless
scribe.
Ho dreamed that man connected with
a large china store, on Market street, was
ono Of the chief promoters and that he
had IN his possession several fine specl-
mems OF quartz, that looked as II there
were millions In it for the men who would
DO SO fortunate as TO be allowed to sub
scribe for stock to the greater Delaware
Gold Mining Company.
Never had the reporter seen such fine
specimens, and "he" was to be let into the
good thing, il he would write up this
article. There are millions in It, said the
Market street merchant, and we will all
be millionaires in less than two years, for
Frank Smith says the quartz will pay
5000 to the ton. Wilmington won't be
able to hold us stockholders Of this gold
mining company
The city OF Wilmington will become fa.
mOuc the world over as one OF the greatest
gold mining centers In the world Call.
tornia ia Its palmiest days, wont I compare
with It. Montana and the West will
never be mentioned in the same breath
with Wilmington. The capitalists of Will
nington will invest their all In the Great
or Delaware Gold Mining Company.
The boom will make our storekeepers
and merchants rich, and property Oh tho
North side will bring fabulous prices and
the land will be covered with fifty and
one hundred thousand dollar residences.
Tho boulevard will equal the famous
driveway in Paris The shipping industry
caused by the handsome and substantial
wharves erected on the Delaware for load
ing the gold quartz, will bring hundreds
of vessels here, who will purchase provis-
ions and other necesSaries for their ships.
This will be the means Of putting Into
circulation thousands Of dollars, then the
impetus given to the river front by the
mining industry will cause other firms to
locate there and Wilmington will become
rival with Philadelphia and New York.
These were the beauties and future
prosperity guaranteed for Wilmington,
that the Market street merchant had been
illling the reporters head with, when he
awoke with n start to find that the whistles
and bells vera sounding seven O'Clock.
1t Is said all dreams are not true put we
ore all in hopes that this dream may be an
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