Arizona republican., 1913-11-23
Spectacular Features in ShreS--StOCk Market
 Profits

Rapid profits accrue when one picks up the string at both ends.
 Shortly after location, the Mohawk claim at Goldfield traded for a mule.
 These shares first sold at 10 cents and later at $2O, while Goldfield Consolidat- ed, the productive pivot of which IS Mo hawk. has since paid $14,5869S5 on stock
 That cost many but 10 cents share, on which they are now drawing down 50 cents a share every quarter. So, also
 Le Roi sold at 50 cents and later at $40.
 Tonopah brought 60 cents and went
 Dos Estrellas 60 cents and sold as high as $155.
 Grown Reserve. placed at 45 cents, advanced to $6. Nipissng went at $4 and sold later at $35.
 Kerr Lake. floated at $1, brought $11 later
 Hudson Bay. put out at 25 cents, went to $16O
 HOWEVER, profit determines many things in finance so that what occurs often
 Will occur again. Ten dollars invested in Swansea in 1890 is now worth $4500 and has drawn $3100 additional while Calumet and Hecla has done better by returning early investors $500 on every $1, while the stock is quoted at $470 a share. The Le Roi mine sold in 1890 for $1250, the market value of which is now $1OOOO.OOO. while the shares have ad- vanced to $5O, and One hundred dollars invested in this mine a few years ago is now worth $250,OO0, as well as having drawn divi- dends of $5OOOO.
 Marshall Field paid $625 for his share of a mine that brought him $6O.0OO when it sold. A quarter interest in the celebrated Comstock once sold at $6000. The mine afterwards produced $6OO,OOO,OOO and the stock sold as high as $1S75 a share The Tom Boy mine. at Telluride, Colo was bought in 1890 for $125000 and was sold in 1899 for $1,8O0,000. The Independence, at Cripple Creek, was located by Stratton as prospect
 in 1892, and he sold a three-quarter in terest in 1896 for $1O,OOO,0OO. The Dutan mine. in the Rainy River district. Ontario advanced from $1OO a prospect in 1892 to a $1,000,0oo propo- sition in 1896.
 Somebody even refused to give up $2O0O for the Copper Queen in the early days.
 There were no takers for the Bon l anza, in eastern oregon, now produc- ing $10O0000 a year. Anaconda. that has paid $55.00O,000 in profits. sold to the Rothschilds at $4O,- 0OO0O0.
 Grown Point advanced from $275 to $1S25 a share in one year; Best X BeIcher advanced from 50 cents to $23.5O in one year while Belcher sold at $6.5O in 1871 and 5Q-in 1872, and paid $15,397200 in dividends.
 Idaho Cold Mining ha maid 1-2 times more than it's entire capitaliza- ton. The Rand in South Africa, for ten years before the Boer war. pro duced more than $4oo,OOOOOO. Home Mining advanced in seven months from 30 cents share to $25 Morris KenzeI. a merchant tailor at Moscow. Idaho. was forced to take 5000 shares of Le Roi for a suit of clothes in 1892. but has since received $60000 in dividends. A well known business man at St. Paul. Minn., had his check written out for $5OOO to pay for a one-fifth inter est in the Le ROi, but His friends persuaded him not to take it. A few months later it sold in London at $5,000,000 so that the advice of his friends cost him million dollars. Two men were offered shares in Hecla and Calumet in 1871. One bought to the amount of 5000 while the other deposit ed a similar amount at per cent in a bank, which latter compounded for thirty years, netted him $4404.71. The other investment is today worth $470000 and has in addition drawn $1,06S.5O0 as divi- dends total value of $1,53S500.
 Professor Treadwell. interested in the United Verde sold 100 shares at $1 a share to his cousin, Mrs. F. H. Chase, of Bangor. Maine
 Later he tried to sell her 200 more at 50 cents but her husband, sick. urged her not to buy, saying:
 You have already thrown $100 in that hole.''
 Clarke began buying up the stock in 1889 and offered Mrs Chase. $5 and then $75O a share which she refused.
 In 1900 some Boston brokers offered her $35,OOO for her investment of $100
 But for her husbands advice" she would have taken the additional 200 shares with which she says
 She would have been the richest wo- nan in Bangor.