The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-24

It does not take any nerve today TO buy
Great Western Gold Stock. You can put
it along side of the best bonds il this
country, and l honestly believe they are
10 better than Great Western. The I'll
certainty is eliminated, the chance Of los.
Is removed. You may take your lond
what does it pay you? per cent a yeal
What do you pay for the bond. You pa.
Jar or more. Take Great Western STOCK
What do you pay tor it? 10c a share. Pc
yaiue is $100. You get $1.G0 worth o
suck for 10c. What will it earn you
Ar. NJ. E. Dittmar, Redding, California
one of the hest posted mining men of Cal
ornia, says the time is not far distan
when Great Western will pay as mucl
n dividends annually as the stock NV
-osts. Remember that is Ice per share
il 100 per cent. on your present invest
nent, or 10 per cent on the par Valu'
+ the stock, $1.00. This IS as plain a.
can possibly make it. l believe toa
before the end Of 1904 the Great Wester.
Gold Company VIII Commence ;ayirs
dividends at above rate, and in the course
Of very few years will pay considerable!
more than above. Is this not making
money fast enough? Some will no d0uLl
say: Is it not gambling to sell mln.nr
stock, or to buy mining stock. l as.
you to be honest and isk yourself I'll
question: Is it gambling Tor party
gentlemen 30 get together and form I
company and sell it's stock to run Il cot
ton mill? Is it gambling for part
Of gentlemen to form a company, an
sell stock to open up a bank? Is It gam
oling for party OF gentlemen to get &c
gether and form company, and sci, its
stock to build d railroad? Now be rca
sonable Is it gambling for a party o.
gentlemen to get together, buy number
of acres of mineral land on q wel-knONi
mineral belt, having had 1t examined! BY
first class experts before purchasing,
form a mining company, and sell its stock
to put that mine on a first class div
dend paying basis? Do the people no.
buy bank stock in order to draw div
dends. Railroad or Cotton Mill stocf
the same Banks, Railroads, Cotton Mills
may pay you from 4 per cent to rel
cent. Mining when properly conducted
pays anywhere from II per cent - 5OC
per cent, and it is perfectly Legitimate
and clean. Beside the Banks, Railroads
Cotton Mills and even the government 1t
self cannot run without the Coli and
Silver taken out of the earth firm The
mines in the West, $3.50, 100000 Cold ant
Silver produced last year in our OWL
country from these mines. / have tex
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 Foulc
had sold out TO the devil and gone
to gambling in mining stock and decelY
ing the people that has so faithfully
stood by him. My enemies may thinl
so. My friends never will. Even /
this company were to go to pieces (ant
| believe it as solid as the eterna
hills) they would no doubt say hat
erred in Judgment, but all the powers
of darkness could never convince M
that they believed l had gone II VIII
ingly and knowingly to rob or deceive
them. have spent more money II adver
Using in order to bring the colapan,
to the notice of my friends than 1 hav
ever mads out of commissions l receive
| for selling the stock. But l bclcv
with all the hart and soul and mind tina
is within me that it is the best proposition