Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
MANUFACTURING CoMsToCKs.
Writer Predicts That Dry Rot Stocks
VIII Shortly Soar.

Writer Predicts That Dry Rot Stocks
VIII Shortly Soar.
There has been something doing in
the Comstoeks for years and years, in
the minds of the old Comstock bark
ers back You cannot get one of
these old Comstock fellows to buy
over 100 shares of any stock because
they used to buy in such lots in the
old days, when stocks were selling in
the hundreds of dollars a share.
An old Comstock bull is otherwise
a Nevada bear. If Goldfeld were to
produce a hundred billions, still it is
doubtful if you could stir to enthusi-
ASH one of these fellows who sees in
his dreams nothing but the Comstock.
The word Comstock is a signal for
Renaissance.
AS a matter of fact, it seems that
there is really something doing in
the C~omstocks, and it would not be
surprising to see some of the stocks
now selling at a few cents a share go
up again into the hundreds Of dol
lars a share. There is absolutely no
question at all that nearly every Com
stock stock is selling at many times
below its actual auction value. The
capitalization of these companies is
from one-fifth to one-tenth that of the
companies now being organized. You
can take pencil and paper and figure
out for yourself the entire value of
the Comstock lode at the present
time, and it would represent scarcely
a song, and yet the Comstocks are
producing ore; they are working con-
tinuously on the quiet. They are
opening up new ore bodies and soon
will be heard from.
BY the assessments of the stocks
the public has been forced out of the
Comstocks. Insiders control prob
ably four-fifths, If not nine-tenths, of
the entire capitalization of all the
Comstock companies. The work of
the past years is beginning to show
for itself. Few people realize the
great accomplishments in these old
worked out mines. Few people re-
alize that n stock went into the
thousands of dollars a share; that it
later sold at 5 cents, and then went
up again to the hundreds of dollars.
That stock is now selling at 70 cents
a share. 1t shouldn't be mentioned,
because some of you would be want
ing to get a tip on it, because it is
predicted that present prices of four
or five Comstocks will look awful
tame, as compared with what they
will be in a few months.
Just out of curiosity, let every
reader of Profit and Loss take up a
paper that has the Comstock quota
tons in it today. Forget it for six
months. If what is predicted for the
Comstocks comes true, you will think
it all a dream-because an invest
ment of $40 will have brought you
more than $4,000; possibly more
than double ever that mount. You
cannot buy the Comstocks in any
quantity. You have to deal in 1907
share lots, and the stocks are assess
able. II the public generally begins
buying at present prices, along will
come heavier assessments and the
public will be assessed out of exis-
tence, unless they have the nerve to
stay with their investments, and, as a
rule, they do not.
This business about the Com
stocks is not the subject of idle Cos
sip and fun entirely. If the predic-
tons for the stocks made by Com
stock votaries come true, Profit and
Loss readers cannot say that their
scribe did not give them fair warning.
If they do not come true, they cannot
say that the scribe said they would.
II they do materialize, we can nat
urally say, Il told you so."-Proft
and Loss.