Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-10-15
WILDCAT
VAN DUzER
Some Points for Electors
to Ponder Over.
Is this the Man Who Nevada Can
Send to Congress and be Proud
Of Her Representative.

Once more is Tonopah blessed, the
Hon. Clarence d. Van Duzer has ar
rived to charm us all with his silver
tones and the beguiling music of his
honeyed words. Like an Indian
brave he comes among US with the
scalps of his wildcat companies dang
ling from the girdle which cencircles
his rotundity, grown greater with
the ''cold bottle and the warm bird"
which the sales OF stocks in his many
fota tions have enabled him to buy
and gorge to repletion. All hail Van
Duzer, your visit is indeed most OPP
perfume for we the people of Nevada
in general and Tonopah in particular,
are anxious to know why you should
have used your position as congress
man to foist upon a coniiding public
a series Of rubbishing stocks which
they bought because you, as congress
man for the state Of Nevada, fathered
them and sold them knowing them to
be valueless
Last year Nevada was flooded with
your wonderful speeches in congress
denouneing in no unmeasured terms
the wildcat" promoter; doubtless
he deserved it, but these speeches
led those who knew no better, to
think that this camp was overrun
, with wildcat promoters, which was
not so, and that you were the only
pure undefled promoter whose stock
was giltedged. Yes, you raised this
''bogey' that you might demolish it
for your own glorification and while
, the boquets were being thrown to
you, you handed out the Mizpah men,
berships shares at $25 apiece, the
, Tonopah, Salt Lake and Los Angeles
! Mining company, and the Nevada
Exploration company, where are
they now? What did they ever own2
, Ask the sorrowing stockholder And
4 back of it all was the first bow you
, made in Tonopah grating sheet
which for stock or cash consideration
!. belauded any sort OF scheme regard
p less of merit or worth This spas
S modic journal, was one mass of gross
E exaggeration about this camp aud
: the sums that the early leasers had
a made insomuch that it made these
men ridiculous to all Now, in the
q hope that all this is forgotten you
: piously turn up the whites of your
!. eyes and say 81 too well appreciate
S what disorder has been thrown on
n Legitimate mining by misrepresenta.
ton and exaggeration to in any way
q contribute to the evil myself" The
II crocodile having devoured his help,
|. less victim weeps Now, Hon. Clar.
y ence, tell us about the New England
: for you have much to explain. Die
:, you not bond these claims from Gil
e bert and Desmond and resell them tC
IS those who formed the New England
e Tonopah mining company? Did they
y y not buy them on your representation:
}. by letter and telegram? Did yol
not make profit on this transaction
Then why if these were good enough
to sell to your political friends do yol
II now denounce the company that own!
~ them but has never sold share t.
). the outside publc2 One word more
"a the people of Tonopah, nay all Ne
le vada, await with breathless interes
you written reply to Major Duncan
l. B. Harrison's letter-you canno
\, afford to ignore it. The writer is |
Of man of reputation and standing
"a whose words carry weight and wh'
r. wrote in no uncertain terms, and i
is possible he might have said NOR,