The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-17

ing companies in this state is attracting .
and steps are to be taken to prevent the
use of the mails for fraudulent purposes.
says the San Francisco Call.
Last month the postal authorities |
stopped the heavy mail of Lesion Bal |
liet, who has widely advertised himself
as a mining king, owner of street car
lines, electric light works and newspa-
pers.
Ballet holds forth in a suite of offices |
at sos California street and the postal
authorities are ODE asked to again make |
an investigation of his method of doins |
business. The Federal grand jury in
Des Moines, Iowa, recently indicted Bal
liet for using the mails for fraudulent
purposes and the case has not yet been
disposed of.
A visit made to Balliet's offices. occpy-
ing twelve rooms, show that vast busl>
ness is being done. Ten typewriters are
engaged from early morn till late at
night answering the people. all over the
country, who are sending money to Bal
liet for investment after reading the
glowing accounts in certain newspapers
and magazines Of his swift rise to for
tune and the many enterprises he is
connected with.
The White Swan Mines company,
Limited, the San Francisco Mining cons
pany, the Pacific Oil company and the
Diamond Oil company are the enter
prises advertised far and wide as doing
business in the rooms occupied by Bal
| liet, at sos California street.
A recent issue of Boston newspapers
| contained six columns of advertising AMI
| Of
from Balliets rooms.
| The Pacific OIL company was written
| up as being one of the great oil COM
panies of alifornia, situated in the Ar
royo Honda district of the San Joaquin
| valley. F. B. Thomas was mentioned as
secretary, to whom all would-be invest
ors should send communications and
| kilograms.
The Diamond Oil company was written
up for full column as one of the finest
oil properties in the McKittrick district
and investors wer easked to address "A.
d Young, room 8, sos alifornia street.
San Francisco"
Ballet himself was written up for two
columns as one of the wealthy mining
kings and oil experts of the Pacific coast
and a vivid account given of his rapid
rise to wealth in a few years.
| Investigation made yesterday showed
til - Ballet was the president of the San
Francisco Mining company and the Pa
cific Oil company and that he had been
duly elected to those offices. The San
Francisco Mining company was 1ncor-
porated for the purpose of working the
Josephine mine in Ell Dorado county.
The mine was formerly owned by J. M.
Nouguess, an attorney of this city, who
sought the aid of Ballet to exploit the
same on the market knowoing Ballet 8
| fame as a promoter.
The Paciic Oil company owns as as
sets some patented land in Lower Cali
fornia, located by j. M. Nougues, and
1000 acres of land in the Arroyo Honda
district, located by w. A. Desborough.
The directors of the San Francisco
Mining company are Ballet. president;
. j. NJ. Nougues, secretary; $. II. ROW.
land treasurer, and ]. NJ. Nougues, Jr..
! director.
, The Pacific Oil company has Ballet
, as president, F. B. Thomas as treasurer,
. A. Desborough as directors. The Pa
, cific Oil company had the sum OF 81
subscribed by the promoters for one
, share each. and this sum was returned
: to them by their own order.
The Diamond Oil company claims to
have $40 acres Of oil land in the McKit-
trick district, with wells down to great
, depth. The officers of this company are
e. D. Berri, president; Philip Lawrence
vice-president; NJ. NJ. Carothers, secre'
| tary.
When Ballet was asked yesterday te
| exn,ain his connection with the com
q names of which he was president. HI
stated that he had been elected presi
, dent during his absence and without hi
, | knowledge or consent.
Regarding the Diamond Oil compan
a and "a. D. Young" to whom all or
a | ders should be sent, according to the ad
!. yertisement in the eastern papers, a
n explanation was made by Ballet tina
r. he did not know of anyone of that nam
10 in his offices and knew nothing abou
j. the company.
70 It is known, however, that the "a.
- Young advertised in connection wit
m the Diamond Oil company is Miss Alic
IF b. Young, a stenographer IN Ballet
suite Of offices. who attends to the X
n ceipt of all mail that comes addresse
N to the offices.
n. A former associate of Billet describe
,e him as a ''hot air artist and in speal
st ing recently of his methods of doir
Ill business said:
ID Ballet is not what he claims to 0
is He boasts that the way to make none
&c is to make the man. For that purpo
r he had had himself written up all ov
ed the country as one of the greatest fna
en- ciers of the age. have seen the checl
en- which were sent in payment for the
We magazine and newspaper articles. Ba
ed liet secured possession of the VIII
ag Swan Mine in Oregon by purchasi'
en- liens on the property and securing
sheriff's deed on foreclosure. Before t