Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-04-08
A JUST ESTIMATE.
Mining and Eng. Review.


Tom Lawson, the pyrotechnic display
advertiser, the Great Defender of the
Poor, the wonderful Wizard of Modern
Finance, is again at his old tricks.
Some months ago the Review warned
investors of just such scheme as Thos.
w. Lawson has recently sprung on the
public. Thomas w. Lawson is out now
with big display advertisement rec
ommending Copper Range" in the
eastern papers. We quote his adver-
tisement:
"Wall Street wonders why l should
paw out large sums in advertising where
there is no possibility of direct return.
What a snickering cynic Wall Street is
1t never will appreciate that some of
us have a chronic desire to spend money
for advertising just to let others know
what we know.
S25, 200 REWARD.
II will paw to anyone who will show
me stock on either the New York or
Boston list that is as good a purchase
to-day as Copper Range is at 100. Don't
all speak at once.
"For the benefit of investors outside
of Boston would say: Copper Range is
the most active stock on the Boston
Stock Exchange, the dealings in the
past three days averaging $4,000 to
SO, 900 shares daily. The way to buy or
sell it is through Boston or New York
Stock Exchange houses. l advise
against trading in it through any other
source. | do not personally take orders
either for its purchase or sale.
"THoMAS w. LAWSON.
Boston, March Is, 1867
Now if that is not fake advertising,
we will exonerate Lawson from all pre-
vious charges of attempting to rob the
public. If Lawson is not modern Dick
Turpin, without his sand, we are mis-
taken.
Don't all speak at once" says Law
son. No, it is not likely that all the
victims of the Lawson methods will
''speak at once Most of them are
financially embarrassed. But some of
them are speaking in unmistakable
terms. They are denouncing Thomas
w. Lawson as the Prince of Takers
and Swindlers; they are gradually gath
ering the experience of the Lawson
victims of Trinity Copper and canal
gamated Copper"
Don't you remember, Lawson, when
you told your victims that Amalgamated
Copper would double in value? Don't
you remember that the stock dropped
from 500 to $33? Mo- Well, perhaps
your memory is not one of the best.
We want to put your memory to q
test now, Tom Lawson.
Do you remember when San Francisco
became too small to contain Tom Law
son and his Trinity Copper victims?
If your memory is bad we are sorry
for you. There are many living today
who connect Trinity Copper with "Cop-
per Range" and Tom Lawson, the
faker of 1900, with Thomas w. Lawson
the Copper Range" faker of 1905.
Tom Lawson has made many attempts
to humbug the public. He has threat
ened the code of the border and has
met with few rebuffs. But the Mining
and Engineering Review is not aware
that honesty should be, subservant tc
physical force. In fact, we invite such
financial roysterers as Thomas w. Law.
son to call on us and discuss the why's
and wherefores of fake promotion.
Mr.. Lawson should not misunderstood
the Review. There is no reason why he
should do so. The editors name is al
the head of the editorial column anc
the editor is behind that Now we dc
not wish to put Faker Lawson to any
inconvenience, and we therefore advise
him that neither Bill Green nor Denis
Donohoe has written this regarding
himself, for his bluff viii be called, ane
no one knows that better than Ton
Lawson. We have branded him as q
faker of the first water-a simon pure
rascal, who stands like an evil genius, q
modern Nero, gazing at and gloatine
over the wrecks and ruins he has caused