The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-13
THIS SALT LAKE CRATER
MADE BARREL OF MONEY
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cause. as you are in a position to do Us
more good in your town ard nearby
towns than AIRY one else We know of;
then again, as you come I'm contact with
% great many commercial men. town and
country people. we came 20 the cOnciu-
sion TO make IL an object TO YOU at our
next regular monthly drawing, Tuesday,
Jan s. 1901 As a matter OF TACT after
once "a prize is won i'm town and 1t Is
made known to the people that a prize
has been won by you IL is On easy mat
ter TO do business after that We got TO
make "a hit hrst-we do the business at
terward.
All we want is a good man whom we
can depend on and We VIII pay him well
for what little time il takes to look after
our interests there. All those 10 whom
you sell tickets inform them that they
can obtain list of the January drawing
from you. as We viii send you d lot OF
each drawing by express, prepaid Try
and get some nearby towns, If YOU can,
where YOU can place on sale tickets Tor
the February drawing VIII allow YOU
- per cent commission on all tickets you
sell IN February, and viii send YOU as
many tickets as YOU want. All unsold
tickets are retUrnable to us a day before
the drawing takes place. We issue tick
sc. Soc. 500 and 500 You can win
S5u.Ol0.U1 ON a 500 ticket, Sl5.0000 on d
$l-00 ticket; S7.501.Qo on SOC ticket; $4,000
IL YOU are i'm a position 10 accept the
agency, iii out the enclC Sed blank and
return 10 us by first mail with an eN-
in return send YOU by FIRST EXPRESS,
PREPAID. THE TICKETS, as follows.
twenty &c, ten soc and five SlO0 tick
cts IT YOU think YOU can use more
tickets for January drawing, let me know.
But YOU will be surprised TO find the
number of tickets YOU VIII sell for the
February drawing The tickets which
We ask you to keep are all stamped on
the back IN RED INK SPECIAL.
When YOU send in your ticket for coliec-
tic-, give Il To- your express agent there
and take q receipt for the same, 50 in
case III is lost YOU viii get the money for
IL just the same. VIII say. il you can
attend To it. can you place the agency
IN some good hands for us Hoping YOU
are ia a position 10 take II and do all
You can for Us on that end and that YOU
VIII be able 10 let me know at an early
date. Take my advice, MA out the blank
and send it at once for those 30 Special
tickets. Those few tickets are Just to
start things Off there You viii do all
kinds of business after the January draw
Ing Trusting To hear from YOU request
inE, those tickets am Yours ,, r-eeSspeet-
~ South Main Street. salt Lake City,
Utah
j. Sou have no time to- lose If you
want the tickets for the January draw
ing. They are now ready to be sent
As previously stated. the letter is
printed and thousands have been sent
out to addresses procured from hotel
DOCKS IN one CORNER OF TIE ltlleI { tt-
It's writes, ia ink, show this letter 20
no one, and oblige-"
Found Many Suckers.
Tt is astonishing that so many people
would bite at the graft after reading
the crude but oily proposition. Yet il
NAV be safely assumed thaL the great
amount of mail which came 10 him was
from parties who responded with the
coin, about $3.50 OF course they never
heard from Curtis again Tie special
tickets through which the man who bit
was TO receive $500 never existed. and
everybody who went into the PROPOSE
tion was duDed.
The letter which gave the snap away
comes from one OF his victims. Failing
to near from Curtis after sending him
on TO @ friend in Salt Lake to see if
there was any such lottery combination
here
curtis is liable TO the law from any
standpoint Even were his proposition
for US ne the mail To advertise lot
teries. ard all those who have written
him accepting the agency are just as
liable 60 the federal laws. This is prob
ably the reason so little noise mas been
made about the graft
The letters were evidently printed
bv a Salt Lake firm. as Curtis could
not have known before reaching here
that his headquarters would be at 2f1
south Main. a transient lodging house.
Curtis is an old telegraph operator.
he is about g. years OF age, and stands