The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-07-21
= Rdcks and Gold Mines.

:, FAKE Mining Schemes, and Gives
Advice to the Unwary'
zane of plucking the dollars of
va ar the ignorant, there has been
! a movement in methods. The
al IN has been, first, to increase
an, a,t' of the harvest; second, to
o"" a minimum the risk the reap
. larection and punishment by
o. ,,irirs Experience in most
'p Numerical activity has shown
m4alemen often gather in the
,' and have the smallest
Tsny of those working the min
'1 and by tn 5 is meant selling
s gia3 and water-have made
t,ct To-day in the majority
a. A. have, in place of the pros
tEs company selling stock di-
suckers, the financial or fiscal
ri. onerates either under the
F.1Llng firm or as a security
,gf,ra is generally a registered
~. attended as a cloak to cover
nj ,n3ividuals not DESTROYS of
,g. a agent of this description
.r lra organizer and promoter
,rmg company whose stock he
. Should trouble come along, he
assert that he has been de-
,,las his customers. He sells
.as mine on a commission
that practically nothing is
... 9pment. He takes out of
red large salaries and the
# Advertising and carry
ra,ion. He prepares all
he of the advantages
Proposition is the wide
m stock as a safeguard
wicked Wall street in
Istribution, however,
WA greatest safeguards
minaI or civil prosecu-
over the country are his
hand, the poor seam
.'. artisan, whose total
rising perhaps all their
.Nled one hundred dol
W.rt rheir savings gone,
left TO pay carfare to
.0clal agent, let alone
s- suit or enlist the aid
MESS PRINCIPLE.
I4t.. of New York,
bat Of the instalment
Their literature and
o5 sudden wealth at
~, payments TO be in
best twenty offers"
If was pointed out that
weekly payment large
uied among the fortu-
could have a nice,
... sent to one Immediately,
at ones leisure. If you
ra.1rs could not afford to do
.. Igrorant. There was an
.u..r in the South who often
w. .,I white friends for funds
wtn1 somewhat mythical
r.e. asked her what she re-
r. time spent in collecting.
.astI gts, was her frank re-
-av eaunciated a great modern
w. which has made fortunes
H1tte. New York, Boston,
other places where handsome
lo work is done, and where ad-
space an be bought in journals
d equitable.
.s 1lINE-SALTING STORIES.
.ot however, always the city
who furnishes all of the crook
H. himself may be deceived by
bud sell him the mine. Some of
nrIlling stories in literature
Written about sailed mines.
of the Bears Nest Mine, and
q. ram expedition to the sailed
er placer field; the sale of the
Nine to a set of Cinnamon. and
rther instances in American
story, have been regarded
5lg Jokes than as great lessons.
--ch .arge jesting we advance
The old way of sailing a
j Gartz vein with a shotgun is
uate3.
~.ds ago a party of capitalists
N#ala placer on what they
'n strictly a "cinch" basis.
'Nn hands they collected the
VT from all over the claim,
-ehed a Mexican miner pal
. t.e rreek. The pans showed
They bought the claim.
"J worthless. Afterward
.lna that the Mexican
ties all the time he was
hat be was careless in ex-
we'll as in knocking the
rarettes. The truth was
70. intelligent Greaser was
aette trick in sailing the
was much fine gold in his
nIer his lip!
methods of sailing mines,
lection, with hypodermic
. rrng solutions of mineral
ming engineers carefully
hags, have been worked.
'Hr~st, careful, and expert
'-.-ers have been deceived
ain. and sailed right under
~ yes. Even a bland Chinee
4.."t Take the instance of the
alHs The bunch of Cinnamon
-al 10 buy it insisted on a mill
iresh-mined ore, taken out
Solves, for a fve-days' run.
"9t taking any chances, in
aallef. The owners of the
" verso runs the story--had a
4 blank arranged above the
d. -rt top of the drift where the
lroaght out their ore cars.
F. "oing a man lay face down.
be could see each ore car
'- He had a rather hard life
on the sandwiches and
l took up there with him,
-l to drop a pinch or so of
+ 1to every car of ore that
Hg under him. The mill
-sr- success from the view
sellers, although not from
Igers.
.H'L VERSUS INCOME.
mo- matter how rirh or how