Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-12-18
yULTURE MINING C0MPAY.
Alleged MIsrepresentations of Its Stock ManipuIators Exposed and Their Honesty Questioned and the Scheme Denounced
 as Fake.

An article in the last issue of the New England Journal for Investors handles the Vulture Mining com pany without gloves. It not only assails the honesty of those who mani pulated its stock but claims the mine is not as represented and should be classed as a prospect rather than a mine. A. Chester Beatty, mining expert who examined the property, furnishes some very interesting read ing in the article mentioned in which he says:
 "I examined the property in the fall of 1899, making preliminary ex- animation and taking few samples at that time. I subsequently, ex- amined the property thoroughly in the fall of 1899 and found in both cases that some one was trying to salt the samples; in fact I had quite a joke on whoever was trying to do the salting, as I left some sacks filled with coke which were just about the same size of the sample sacks I used for ore, and the man who was doing the salting did it in such crude manner that he actually salted the coke so that it ran SIS per ton in gold. Of course when I made the examination I had my assayer and assistant with me and found that there was big tonnage of ore that ran Sl 50 and some of the ore in smal- Ter blocks would run S400 to $500.
 After I discovered that some one was trying to salt me 1 made quite thorough study of the property be- cause I looked upon it as one which had certain amount of prospective value and which if it could be acquir- ed on the proper terms, might pay to prospect, Now it seems to me in view of the guarantee made i'll this advertisement which reads as follows: We will furnish signed statement setting forth what will be found at the mine, and will extend e-ery fa- cility to any person who desires to investigate, either in person or by sending a representative to the mine. If our statement upon investigation proves otherwise than true, we will pay all the expenses of this investiga- tion," that it would be a very good idea if you would get them to de- posit certain sum of money in the bank to pay for the engineers ex- animation and then secure the service of one or more well known engineers in addition to yourself, and mI.ie up a party and go down and examine the mine. Of course before taxing this step it would be absolutely ne- cessary to have them put the money up in bank and have the matter ar ranged in a business like hummer throughout.
 Leo Von Rosenberg of New York contributes letter also which i in- corporated in this article from which the following biographical sketch of the chief promoter of this scheme ap- pears:
 ''The chief promoters of this rotten fake are: Willis B. Troy, 66 Broad way; H. W. Stephens, 66 Broadway Paul Wejlbacher, 9 Broad street; H. R. Weilbacher, p Broad street"
 Willis B. Troy was mixed up in a swindling game before as a member of the bucket shop firm of Troy, To bin & company, who were raided for swindling on the 18th or 18th of Sep tember, 1897. Magistrate Crane in the Tombs police court, denounced the swindling game of that firm as the most dastardly he ever heard of and Troy confessed having been a thief. See New York EveIiIg Sun of Sept. l6, 1897"
 Some of the Arizona papers gave MT. Troy and his Vulture scheme a great boom, thereby rendering him great assistance Ill working of his | stock