The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-13
GET RICH WITH KERNOHAN!
BRITISH AMERICAN COPPER A
CERTAIN ROUTE.
H Not From Him Buy u From Burr Bros.
In Either Event Your Ghildren's
ChiIdren's Chndr Would BE Drawing
Dividends Of s Per Cent. or More.

vas going up steadily in the Office OF the
New Amsterdam Securities Company on
the third floor of the Flatiron Building
got the idea that the company owned twelve
claims of the richest copper bearing ore
snd that IL was going to put II all over the
CRANKY mine next door as a dividend payer.
J. c. Kernohan of Cleveland, with plenty
Of mining stock TO nell. met some Of them
face to face last March and April and told
them that II wac a fortune maker and TO
get IN quick.
Kernohan was the vice-presldent of the
company and j. c. Kerrochan a Co. were
selling the stock in Cleveland, while the
New Amsterdam Securities Company.
formed by the Burr brothers, shelton and
(. H.,Vof the sixth floor of the Flatlron.
were helping kernohan dispose of IT here
on a rs per cent. commission basis.
There was the British American Copper
Mines and smelling Company Of Arizona
with a capital Of s. 600, 600 ar ! he British
American Copper Mines a..d Smelling
Company Of Canada. with a capitalization
of 81 600. O0o. II was the former company
whose stock people were invited to buy
while il was jumping a nickel every lew
weeks In the ofice of the New Amsterdam
The Arizona company was the holding
company for the Canadian company.
While the stock was selling here some
folks got 10 know Mr.. Kernohan's picture
quite well His face shone forth in the
middle Of page sdvertieements advising
everybody TO buy British American quick.
81 can make your fortune in copper
vas the heading on some Of these displays.
Then there was a nice picture Of J. C.. Ker-
NOLAN enjoying a not very comfortable
I11lyfnn cant an a nllA M rocks mt an
parently very happy. The picture wss
labelled j.. c. Kernohsn. vice-president.
seated on a mountain Of copper ore" Below
was this message full # hope and cheer
from ]. c. Kernohan.
have come to New York 70 present to the
investors Of the East personally. face to face.
fun particulars OF the British American Cop
per Mines and Smelling Company.
As might he expected. there was some
rush 20 buy stock after Mr.. Kernohsn's
benign and Ministerial Countenance began
20 shine forth from the advertisements,
The Burr brothers had all they could do
TO fill orders. taking at first Is per cent. a.
commission and turning The rest over 10
Kernohan. who paid all advertising ex.
pens6e. OF course y c. kernohan Of
Cleveland was a prophet 10 the East. The
stock sold first at Is cents, then jumped TO
20 cents, then went 10 IS and then 10 so
10 the Office of The New Amsterdam Sc
curitIes Company. j. G.. kernohan over
his picture sang songs of JOY tor investors.
Il predicted that The shares would so
from Is To 20 cents, he sad last March
over his Photograph. They did. | pre-
dicted thew would Jump from % 70 25
cents. Thew did. And now | give warn
ing that they will advance 10 10 cents IN
TWO. weeks. They will \ sure profit of
20 per cent in Twelve days" II WIS like
finding money. J. &. kernohan went on 10
tell the tolllng public. whose savings IN
A.. avy,nue IonLa rat nar1ptpn only a
bsggarly 80 and ! per cent. There was
the old call to get out Your pad and pencil
and figure u all out for yourself The
stock, said Kernoh5n IN those paRes llluml-
mated by his photograph, was going 10
jump in a few months Ia par. and the next
stop would be the SO mark. If you fail
70 act now don't blame me, for | have done
my part, he said.
Having taken out your pad Mr.. kerno-
han helped you 10 do beautiful sums IN
arithmetic. Suppose You buy now 1000
shares az the low price of % cents. You
must do it before April 8. Then what
Well. YOU will clean up an immediate
profit Of $50. for the 80 cept price will make
your stock worth $500" And so II went
on until the stock reached par and you
had $1,000 for your $3.50. One man who
bought a few hundred shares at the start
after meeting Mr.. kernohan face TO face
and seeing that he looked like his pictures
decided 10 buy 5000 more.
The company, according 10 the pros
pectus issued by the New Amsterdam
Securities Company, had twelve rich claims
in the famous East kootenay mining dlvi-
sion OF British Columbia, right near TO the
CRANKY mine.
The title TO the properties" said the
prospectus, lis direct 70 the ny from
thu Government and held by Right of Loca-
ton. They will all he Crown Granted, as
they have been inspected and passed. The
Governnent guarantees the titles.
While a mint OF money was 10 be made
NV 4DQCulafiAD still OrpafAT wal he nrnmiRp
TO those who bought for investment only.
Coming generations would rise up and call
them blessed.
They will soon reap great dividends
from their investments" said the cold
black type. but their children's children's
children will be mining on these properties
and receiving dividends lOngafter they have
been gathered 20 their fathers" There were
only a few words more. Tbs twelve claims
owned by the company were three times as
rich as the CRANKY, and with one-third the
capitalization OF that "a per cent. dividend
payer should pay greater dividends.
dam Securities Company, would net the
shareholders of this company $50 to $50
per cent. annually on their invest ment."
The prospectus contained the names of
several men who were directors. One of
them was Alexander McCrea, postmaster at
Rsvelstoke, b. c. Some folks after they
had met Mr.. Kernohan face to face and
had bought stock decided il would be a
RoOd tnlnH 10 WTltc fOsJfndsUer MCtrea
and hnd ont what he thought Of the property
as one of tho directors. They got hack
word that Dir. McCrea had repudiated the
use OF his name in connection with the
company and had informed the company
that unless il was discontinued Immediately
trouble would follow.
After his little Encouragement ono
man decided to take the trouble Of getting
IN engineer TO do some investigating up
in Canada. where the claims were located.
He got back word that the claims were
there all right. but that so far as the records
showed no such company as the British
American Copper Mines and Smelling
Company had ever had any title 20 some
OF the twelve and. furthermore, that on
others on which il appeared TO have had
some kind of an option the rights had
lapsed or been forfeited, and ifthey thought
there was any title from the Government
they had another guess coming.
Just about the time this Investigation
was concluded the boom in British American
on the third floor of the Flatiron ceased.
Perhaps il 10 still on out in Cleveland. Up
on the sixth floor Of the Flatiron Burr
Bros. Just nov are executing a large