Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-12-26
FULL OF
WILDCAT MINES
l. Denison Declares People
Are Being Robbed Of
Millions

San Francisco, Dec 2e.--The Bulletin
says:
Fresh from an investigation OF the
wildcat mining schemes OF Goldfield,
Tonopah and other Nevada mining
camps. Lindsey Denison, assistant
tor of Ridgways, IS now in this city.
Mr.. Denison was formerly one of the
crack writer's of the New York Sun,
and his work for Everybody's and
/ other big magazines has attracted
great deal Of attention.
Attention would be a mild word to
apply to the notice which Mr.. Denison
has received since his articles on Cold
field and Tonepah have appeared in
Rldgways. He went to Nevada COM
missioned to tell the bare truth as he
found 1t. and, as always happens, the
truth has hurt great many people and
has made the writer the object of In
tense hatred.
For the legitimate ventures OF Cold
field and Tonopah, Mr.. benson has
nothing but the highest praise. He con-
siders the new gold fields the richest
and most promising in America, and
the men who are developing them as
representatives OF the best business
principles in this country. But for the
exploiters Of wildcat schemes Mr.. Dem
ison has nothing goo0 to say.
The attention of Mr.. Ri0gway," he
said this morning when interviewed ar
the Ho Jefferson, was attracted by
the. big advertisements appearing IN
New YOrk papers and me gaxines and
offering investors chance to make az
high a. 33 s-3 per cent q month by
duying certain Nevada mining stocks.
OF course THAI meant money back In
three months AMI untold wealth for
the rest OF your he. Mr.. Ridgway had
| . suspicion that the ads were meant to
ko1R -
to investigate.
II did not bother about mining prop
critics. just started out TO see what
kind OF men were behind the schemes
that were being so extravagantly adj
vertised all over the country. The res
suits justify our worst suspicious.
found that one company which had al
ready spent $5,600.000 in advertising
consists OF four men, three OF them
with nasty records One OF them came
from Portland. where he was en-
gagged in all kinds of Illicit enterprises
running gambling houses, projecting
i brothels. shanghaing and all .aat .por,
OF thing. The second man In this COM
pany served q sentence IN. Sing Sina
for forgery in the third degre ]. and hal
also been In Auburn and the Elmira
reformatory. He engaged d in the
| til he got into trouble with the post
| office officials. Then he went to Ne.
vada, and II finding the graft there let
ter than forgery or selling fake tips
! the other two mon are better thar
! these. one of them being an 0fficeholdel
In Nevada, but very weak sister,
| When I began sending facts abou,
these and other men OF the same clasl
to the east by telegraph. found my
self In trouble. Somehow or other they
knew what / had written.a day after
dispatched It. ana there was talk Of
running me out of the camp. The sen.
timent Is against the wildcat men, how
ever, and 1t was finally decided that
| should not be molested
| These men who are Turing suckers
| with their expensive ads, are swindlers
Their stocks are not listed on the New
York board; they are not even listed II
Tonopah and Goldfield. San Francisco
is the onlv place where they are quoted
If the legitimate mining men of tn,
camps were more courageous the,
would put stop to their operations
They are certainly doing an immens,
amount OF harm to the camps.