The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-22
$5OO,0O()
SPENT BY
The Great Western Gold Mining Co
On It's Mine in Shasta County, California. Time is
Short to Buy the Stock at lOc per Share
Read Words Below Very Carefully
SPENT BY

know on earth today as an investment
And as private stakeholder mot pr3mo-
ter desiring to be a blessing u nv
fellow men on all lines, and being deepv
grateful for their liberal contributions
to me in the past during my evangelstic
labors, | recommend this stock to them.
am not a stock broker, but a private
citizen doing this. The company is alb
solutely Independent, having money sufH.
cient now to carry out their plans and
they advertise that time is now reduced
20 days when the stock will be advanced
to $1.00 per share or be taken of the
market entirely, I am using all the
influence l have with the board Of dire.
tors to keep them from advancing sAe
price the LIST of January. l am doing this
solely because during holidays peoples
minds are on other things and 1 wish
my friends to have time to investigate
and invest in this grand organization
have not yet succeeded, but still nave
hopes, and if l succeed l desire it 10 DC
thoroughly understood that it is
my loyalty to my friends and
my personal influence with the company
that has caused the stock not to be adj
yanced on January 1st. And II Anyune
wants to attach any blame to any ana,
don't blame the company. Place .amc
on me. / am trying to do this in order
to give my friends a show. To any one
contemplating purchase OF The took
however l will saya You had better
send checks at once to me, as / nave
10 authority now for saing that you
can buy the stock for less than 81 90
per share after January list. To ne IN
the safe side get in quick. l llso de-
sire to say in order that you may know
exactly what to depend upon, that / 10
not believe the company can commence
paying dividends before the summer,
fall or winter of 1904. But put your
$1,000, $1,000, $4,000, 500, 5000, $500, ST.
000 $4,000, $4,000 right here now at 10c
per share. Lay your certificate in your
trunk and before commencement OF
1905, barring strikes, you will begin 10
realize what | have recommended TO
you You can, however, sell your stock
for a profit long before this time. do
not say you will be able to get $1.00 for
it before the company commences to
pay dividends. But l do say that YOU
could sell for more than it cost you III
few months, and if you will hold un-
til time mentioned you will draw 3lvi-
dends on $100 stock. And the mini
mum dividends the company not my
SELF expects to pay will be 100 per cent
on present price 10c per share per year
Now if anyone thinks it is gambling
for me to recommend to my friends
what I believe to be a first class in
vestment, the company does not need
your money. I would not have 1T II l
knew it, and we are not asking you tn
bu. | am sending out this advertise
ment to my friends mot even to stran-
gers" If strangers desire to purchase
all right If friends and strangers are
dubious about it and prefer to take
others advice and not touch this prop
osition, at will be your loss" and l
positively declare to you it will be a.
right with me. But whatever you 90
must be done quickly Yours Faithfully,