The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
BIG SCHEMES IN
 HIGH FINANCE How Get Rich Quick Concerns
 Dupe People WALLINCFORD SCHEMES Some of the Methods of the Burr Broth CTS Who Were Recently Arrested.
 F1lched Millions of Good

From the Dayton Journal.
 How long would 1t take you to coun. $100, 900, ,o00. dollar at time? Figure < out. Could you do 1t in . lifetime?
 Lay down $1oo,0oo.0O0 in silver dol lars edge to edge and you will have a continuous silver trail from New York city to Salt Lake City.
 That is what swindling companies have fiiched from the people in the last year.
 High finance such as would have shame at hos own incapacity Is re- vealed In the exposure of the gigantic swindling operations of Burr Bros Inc.
 Since Postmaster General Hitchcock reorganized the inspection service of his department several months ago an
 investigation of the methods of tho
 Burr companies and others in close touch with them with the result that
 the heads of the organization are in
 the Tombs in New York city. and others
 are likely to be there soon. Meanwhile all over the country investors in the various wildcat concerns which bore the Burr stamp are quietly but fervent. ly kicking themselves.
 Worked Mining Schemes Burr Brothers were shrewd. When.
 ever they heard of a good thing they immediately saw to 1t that company was organized to deal in something like the gilt edge securities. For instance
 they sounded the popular taste for min ing securities and organized, pro noted and sold stock in such compa-
 nies as:
 Rawhide Tarantula with capital stocl of s1,0O0.0Oo; Montezuma Mining ait Smelling, capital of $1,000,o00; Colder
 Fleece tgood nameD Mining. Milling
 and Refining company, capital stock $500, ,000.
 Each one of these~companies sounds good to the ear, and the organization
 was in line with the organization of 6
 bona fide mining corporation, only Il wasn't. About all the stock of these companies was sold to investors, bu' the companies themselves have gone uI in smoke. or, rather. hot air. Didn't Overlook Timber Did you care for something in thu way of timber investments? We'll, Bur Brothers, Inc, had a little choice in. vestment stock in several timber de velopment companies that yop cou!t have if you were quick about 1t. Burr Brothers sold stock in: Fllsmere Farm. Michigan. California Eucalyptus Timber com pany. capitalized at $1.000,o0o. And many others.
 They could point the prospective in vestor to any amount of literature re gardlng the profits to be made out o Eucalyptus. The investor read and pom dered He saw that Eucalyptus was good thing and hastened to get il with Burr Brothers. Later he has dis covered that an investor can be "stung' on Eucalyptus just as he can of golt
 mining properties.
 Burr Brothers were the original dyed in the wool promoters of copper mining stocks. Cobalt Portage, British
 American, Arizona Copper-Gold an,
 what not--it- all came to the sam,
 thing. They dabbled in Electric Airline
 Automatic Engine and many other cor
 porations. all organized with just tha
 show of stolidity that Burr Brothers
 select properties for investors demand cod. And the end thereof was profit fo 1 the promoters and loss for the invest ors.
 Took in OO,0O0.OOO | Postmaster General Hitchcock csti
 mates that in the past i've years thes'