The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-04-08

tion writing to publishers carrying wild.
cat advertisements and requesting that
such he discontinued. He particularly
designated the American Banking and
Brokerage Company Of Denver. the
Rocky Mountain Securities Company.
G. s. johnson Brokerage Company.
Lewis E. Wilson Investment Company,
the Big Elk Gold Mines Company as be.
ing purveyors Of wildcat stocks. and
should be avoided"
Scores Papers for Paid Write-Ups.
Editor Bransom of the Sun "asked
the association to take cognizance Of the
fact that on an average Of once . week
for many months past Goldfeld and
Tonopah have been visited BY repre-.
sentatives Of outside newspapers who
came here to write up the country for
q consideration. He said none Of the
publishers ever spent . dollar In the
camps or had any interests here save
to work graft. He mentioned 40 an
instance the San Francisco Bulletin,
which sent man to the camps to write
them mp, which was done without
more than q mention of the Mispah
mine, the Tonopah Extension. or any
other Of the big mines Of the camps.
but all Of the wildcats. the worst that
exist. were written up exhaustively and
made to appear as though they were
the real mines Of Tonopah and Gold.
field. All these were paid write-ups.
nothing went into any Of these papers
that was not paid for. II any man In
the camp had q grievance or wanted to
knock. he was permitted to do 30 and
was interviewed for 80 many dollars
and cents. The speaker named among
the papers that sent representatives
here. besides the Bulletin, the Ex.
aminer, LIS Angeles Times, Denver Post.
Denver Mining Record, Deseret News.
Chicago Mining World and said there are
u number Of others he had forgotten. He
challenged any one to state that one Of
these write-ups had done any one any
good aud said that instead Of doing
good they had done the country i'm.
measurable harm. He asked the asso-
citation to sit on any further paid
write-ups because they are graft aud
this association Is supposed to be op-
posed to grating.
President Lawson asked Mr.. Bran.
son how brokers could help patronizing
such special editions when they could
not know beforehand what the nature
OF other advertising in them would be-
Mr.. Branson replied that. without ex.
ception, the special editions had pub
lished wildcat paid write. ups almost ex.
clusively and any intelligent broker
should take 1t for granted that they
will continue to do SO.
"If You put your advertisement in
one Of those grating editions" said
Mr.. Branson, ''you are neutralizing the
very objects Of this association. You
ask the brokers to decline to ad vertise
in the same publications with wildcats.
but according to your statement ia q
case Of special write-up editions you
cannot know until after they appear
whether the advertise ements are good or
bad. You know very we'll beforehand
that when your write.up appears in
one of these special editious that It will
be along side Of and doubly surrounded
by the paid.for ani lying statements of
the unscrupulous promoter.
Miner will Drop Wildcats.
at was reported last night after the
meeting that when it was learned that
the Sun would stand its ground Mr..
Dunham had given his word of honor
that he would ceass to publish the New
England. Tonopah 'ad' and such other
advertisements as the brokers would
say were wildcats. if he could be per.
mitted to remain on the associations 3
directorate"