Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-03-14


Toilers from the factories intermin-
! gled with men from the Offices. while
society women. stepping from their
| limousine cars. edged through the
ranks OF the working girls who were
also numerous in that always-chang-
! ing crowd
| The lure of gold drew them there,
rich and poor alike. 1t was the act
ual metal. the real yellow wealth In
its various forms; quartz that exuded
| It from every pore, the nugget worn
smooth on the rock bed OF stream.
and the dust 1t was dramatically
! displayed, not from a mirrored surface
as though in a jewelers. cabinet, or
from out the folds of rich velvet. but
in it's native element, lying amid rocks
and sand.
/ 1t was depicted as desert scene.
weird in every detail, created by the
hand of master in typographical
work and staged just within the heavy
plate glass. The sands were nodded
Into dunes and mounds across long.
fiat plain and led into mountain
range which formed the background,
And on this miniature desert waste
we're strewn equally miniature marks
OF the luckless adventurer who had
| threaded the waste in search OF
wealth. His bones. with those OF the
pack mules, lay bleached beside the
rusting tires OF wagon wheel. tell
ing gruesome tale of lost hope and
] lost life.
| And back among the mountain can
yons were manikin men who toiled
at the building of roads, at cutting
| away lodges of pure gold, at sinking
shafts and erecting smelters. 1t was
all real so real that men and woIn-
en- seemed semi-hypnotized, and many
of them succumbed to the honeyed
words of the glib talker who invited
| them within the doors of the place for
| further examination of the newly
discovered bonanza.
He was attired in the stage version
Of a typical prospector, wearing high
! leather boots, corduroy pants buckled
within their tops, red tie and topped
/ with a wide sombrero. His chief duty
| lay In the distribution of highly IL
luminative literature on the rediscDv-
cry OF one of the worlds greatest
mines, the famous Esperanza de
| Guanarre OF southwestern Arizona
near the border of Mexico. and ex-
tending the invitation to the flies
/ that were caught In che web of cu-
| riosity to come into the parlor of the
| spider who peddled mining stock.
ALI that was necessary to bring this
immense wealth to the mint at San
Francisco was a railroad to the mines
Money for this was essential. and be-
cause the mine was so wealthy, and
because OF desire to give many, In
stead OF few capitalists, the oppor-
tunity of adding still greater burdens
Of dollars to their already large packs,
the general public was given this
opportunity to subscribe for a few
shares.
So perfect was the staging of this
financial bubble, so tremendously con.
| Quoted were all the details, that with
in three weeks the four men who con-
trolled the combine had managed to
clear up something like $4,000 on
stock that sold for 25 cents a share
Only the fact that they used the mails
led to the sudden termination of OPP
erations. The federal authorities
had been making investigation,
and had found total lack of
property TO be one OF the chief
reason why the swindlers should not
be taking in gullibie public. Three
of the four getrich-quick artists were
landed behind bars, while a fourth,
having had an inkling of what was
coming, managed to get away with
a good portion of the public contribl.
ton.
Usually the story of the lost miue
is the bait used to land the fish. There
have been dozens of these properties,
and from time to time old tales are
renewed by sudden strike.
Somewhere In the northern portion
OF the Turtle range OF mountains, a
range east and south of the range
designated as the Old Woman's noun.
tain on the Colorado river In Cal
ifornia. lies the Lost Arch, twice To-
Gated and twice lost by the peculiar
work of Providence.
Jim Fish and his partner. a pros
pector who arrived in the days of the
first gold rush to California. were
travelling from Nevada to California In
the year 1883, in an old-fashioned
blackboard behind team OF stringy
bay horses. They had apparently
hlled the barrel of water from the
Colorado and continued on their SLOW
search for hidden wealth.
For months they had been prospect
Ing through the little-known country
stopping here and there, climbing Hill.
and following streams through I'm
known ranges. Occasionally they Sc
cured sufficient game to supply then
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