Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-08-10
LOOKED UP LEGENDS
BUT NOT THE MINE
Post Office Inspector Tells of De-
vlouS Path to Mud Deposit
.dnd Says There Was
Only Lowest Grade
of Ore.

Denver, Colo. August 10.--The
Lost Spanish Bullion mine case is
attracting much attention. This is
the case in which 1t is claimed that
a company was organized to sell
stock in a mine. alleged to be located
In a cave near Silver CITY, n. NJ, and
in which the postal department has
caused the arrest and indictment of
all the officials OF the company, al
leglng that they used the mails to
defraud. The government will at
tempt to prove that the mine Is
valueless and that the company
knew it at the time 1t was selling a
large amount of stock
Ads Written from History.
Charles A. Lindsey, who wrote the
prospectus sent out by the Lost Bull
lion Spanish Mines company to in
duce spectators to buy stock, was
on the stand yesterday at the trial
of the officials of the company in
the United States district court on a
charge of fraudulent use of the
mails.
Lindsey is employed by the Ma
tional Advertising company of this
city which secured the contract to
prepare advertising for the Lost Bull
lion company last fall. The story Of
the discovery of the mine by Span
iards at the time Of the Aztec con-
quest in Mexico and quotations from
Prescott's Conquest of Mexico"
formed the nucleous of the story
Lindsey wrote for the prospectus.
On the stand Lindsey said he was
employed to plan the advertising OF
the Lost Bullion Spanish Mines COM
pany. He went to an office in the
Temple Court building I'm Septem-
ber, 1906, he said, and met G. l..
Blackman of the brokerage firm of
Blackman & Co., and afterward went
to Silver City with George Dubois
to gather data for the prospectus.
Legends Used.
He made no effort, he said, to
learn whether the claims of rich ore
made by the officers of the company
were correct, but satisfied himself of
the truth of the legends connected
with the mine before writing the
pamphlet. The pictures in the PAM
phlet, he said, were mostly repro
duced from magazines and other
publications, and had no direct bear
ing on the mine in question.
Inspector Found Mud.
C A. Macomlc, the postoffice in
spector who investigated the case,
was on the stand again yesterday.
He went into detail concerning his
trip through the workings" in the
"mine." and told how he was forced
to crawl on hands and knees, wrig-
gle along on his stomach and i'm one
place actually roll along the pas
sageway to reach the point of the
new discovery" which, according to
Engineer Clymo, who accompanied
George Du Bois and Macomic, was
absolutely no discovery at all, but
loathsome black mud and an ordin-
airy quality of low-grade ore that
might have contained almost any
kind of mineral in small quantities.
His Belief.
1t was at this place, Macomic tes-
titled, that Du Bois first told him
he was certain there was nothing in
the mine, but that the company in
tended to raise money in advertising
the cave, so that 1t might prospect
and develop other property nearby.
Following this conversation in the
mine, Macomic said, Du Bois volun-
tarily made the statements submit
ted as evidence Wednesday, and
signed them in the presence of three
Macomic then went into detail re-
garding his trip and the discoveries
he made regarding the modum OPP
erandi of the company.