The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-23

1t does not take any nerve today to buy
Great Western Gold Stock You can put
it along side of the best bonds III this
country, and l honestly believe they are
no better than Great Western. The an
certainty is eliminated, the chance Of loss
is removed. You may take your lond;
what does it pay you? per cent year
What do you pay for the bond. You pay
par, or more. Take Great Western Stock.
What do you pay for it? 10c share. Par
yalue is $1.00. You get $1.00 worth OF
stock Tor Ice. What will it earn you?
Mr.. M. E. Dittmar, Rcdding, California,
one OF the best posted mining men of Cali
fornia, says the time is not far distant
when Great Western will pay as much
in dividends annually as the stock uoW
costs. Remember that is Ice per snare,
OF 100 per cent. on your present invest
ment, or 10 per cent On the pr value
of the stock, $1.O0 This is as p.ain as
l can possibly make 1t. l believe that
before the end of 1904 the Gre t Western
Gold Company VIII Commerce saying
dividends at above rate, and III the course
of very few years will pay considerably
more than above. Is this not making
money fast enough? Some will no doubt
say: Is it not gambling to sell mining
stock, or to buy mining stock. L ask
you to be honest and ask yourself the
question: Is it gambling Tor party OF
gentlemen to get together and form a
company and sell its stock to run a cot
ton mill? Is it gambling for q party
OF gentlemen to form a company, and
sell stock to open up a bank? Is It GAM
bling for q party OF gentlemen to g2t O.
gether and form a company, and sci. its
stock to build railroad? Now be rea-
6onabie. is it gambling for a party OF
gentlemen to get together, buy number
OF acres of mineral land on a Wel!-SnOwn
mineral belt, having had it examined by
first class experts before purchasing"
form a mining company, and sell its stock
to put that mine on first class divl
dend paying basis? Do the people not
buy bank stock in order to draw divi
dends. Railroad or Cotton Mill stock
the same Banks, Railroads, Cotton Mills
may pay you from per cent to 3 Ter
cent. Mining when properly condn3t"d,
pays anywhere from II per cent - SO
per cent, and it is perfectly legitimate
and clean. Beside the Banks, Railroads.
Cotton Mills and even the government tt
self cannot run without the Coll and
Silver taken out OF the earth firm The
mines in the West, $3.50, 900 Cold and
Silver produced last year in our owl
country from these mines. l have too
much confidence in the people o. North
Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia,
and in the loyalty of my friends to be-
lieve that for one moment they would
had sold cut to the devil and sore
to gambling in mining stock and deceiv-
ing the people that has so faithfully
stood by him. My enemies may 1hinl,
so. Ny friends never will. Even if
this company were to so to pieces (and
believe it as solid as the eternal
hills) they would no doubt say I had
erred in Judgment, but all the powers
of darkness could never convince me
that they believed l had gone III will
ingly and knowingly to rob or deceive
them. l have spent more money IN adver-
Using in order to bring the company
to the notice of my friends than 1 have
ever MAIDS out of commissions l receive
for selling the stock But l believe
with all the hart and soul and mind that
is within me that it is the best proposition