Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-17
ACTIVE MINING
STOCK OPERATORS
THE F. A. MCDONALD COMPANY
ALWAYS PROGRESSIVE
Handle only Listed Mining stocks.
Promoted Daisy Extension, Mo-
hawk Jr., Gold Elk, Manhat-
tan Cocktail and others

American cities remarkable for the
rapidity of their growth are fully as
remarkable for the solid character OF
their development and none among
them is more so in either respect than
Los Angeles, which at no time in her
history has experienced greater and
more substantial progress than Is in
evidence today.
A spirit of enterprise Is reflected in
each department of the commercial In
terests of Los Angles and in no line
is this fact more pronounced than IN
the mining industry.
Among the most prominent and pro-
gressive operators in this field is the
F. A. Mcdonald company, 443-444 Brad
bury building, corner Third and Broad
way. This firm promoted and financed
the Daisy Extension, Mohawk Jr. and
Gold Elk companies Of Goldheld, the
Manhattan Cocktail and the Manhattan
Wisconsin companies of Manhattan, all
of which were successful and have
shown profits to the holders of this
stock in this company ranging from
100 to 500 per cent. 1t is a remarkable
thing to say, but 1t is a matter of rec
ord that this firm has made a success
of every mining company that 1t has
financed.
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The individual members of this firm
are A. B. Mcdonald, president; e. A.
Mcdonald, vice president, and f. A.
Mcdonald, secretary, treasurer and
general manager. These gentlemen re-
fuse absolutely to handle any mining
stock unless it is first listed on the San
Francisco mining exchange, Where IL
becomes a bona fide security and the
"a 1,a.l ,k Il ntrs mo =
ket value the same as C check on
national bank. The San Francisco
mining exchange is to the mining world
what Wall street is to the commercial
world, and the +. A. Mcdonald COM
pany's methods of doing business are
aiding much in the destruction of wild
cat schemes and glittering fake mining
promotions that have done so much
toward robbing the people of confidence
IN the mining industry, the greatest
revenue for wealth and the safest in
dustry in which one can invest his
funds and amass fortunes without in
juring his fellow man, but rather aid
ing the finances of the entire country.
It is fact that no man can become
millionaire honestly without injuring
his fellow men in any industry except
one, and that is mining.
A. B. Mcdonald is a native of Iowa.
He moved to North Dakota in the early
'SOs, where he was connected with the
Great Northern railway in the capacity
of right of way agent and townsite
promoter, and aIterward became the
owner of Cando, the county seat of
Towner county, where he at one time
owned and operated large flour mill,
a department store, a brick manufac-
turing establishment, the Cando Rec
ord, owned and formed over 1000 acres
of wheat lands, besides practicing law,
and for two years represented his coun-
ty in the state legislature. Mr.. Nc
Donald has now been a resident of Cali
forna for lour years, and besides his
mining interests owns considerable real
estate in Southern California and is
interested in the banking business, be-
ing president of the Occidental Savings
Bank and Trust company.
F. A. Mcdonald is a native of North
Dakota and has been a resident of Los
Angeles for three years. Fraternally
he affiliates with the Shriners and the
Elks, and is a charter member of the
Shriners' club of Los Angles. Mr. F.
A. Mcdonald is a young man, just hav-
ing passed his twenty-seVenth birthday,
but has accomplished much for his
years. At the age of II he left his
senior year in college to accept a posi-
tion as managing editor of the Fargo
Daily Argus and became the youngest
editor of a daily newspaper in the
United States, which position he held
for three years, taking an active part
in the political contests of his state.
Although himself too young to vote, he
stumped the state in the interests of
the Republican party. Leaving the
newspaper field he entered Northwest
ern university at Chicago and took up
the study of law and was called to
California by the serious illness of his
mother, where he has since remained.
Becoming interested in the great min
ing industry of this state and Nevada,
he took up the study of geology and
began investing in mines for his own
account. Success followed his invest
ments until he is now one of the best
known and most successful mine opera
tors in Los Angeles.
Connected with the +. A. Mcdonald
company are such men as J. c. Smith,
e. M, a man who has exported mining
properties for the Gug6 enheims and
the New York Electric for the past fif-
teen years, and, although a quiet and
; urassuming gentleman, is one Of Amer
ica's foremost mining experts and geol-
ogists Kenneth Wade, E. NJ, a gradu-
ate of two of our great universities,
il one of Goldfeld's leading mining en-
gineers and has studied the formations
and geological conditions of tkis world
famous camp for the past four years,
and Frank Saville, who has been de-
veloping the Mohawk Jr. mine for the
f. A. Mcdonald company, developed
the water system for the Santa Fe rail-
way from Albuquerque, N. NJ, to Mo-
dave, Cal.
The +. A. Mcdonald company is in
corporated under the laws of Arizona
at $25O,OOO and enjoys the reputation in
financial circles of being "solid." They
own extensive mining interests all over
Arizona, California and Nevada anc
are doing a brokerage business on the
San Francisco mining exchange seVera
times greater than the aggregate bust
ness done on the Los Angeles mining