Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-08

all the money 1t had cost them The man denied having anything to do with any salting operation and stated that while hh was willing to pay back all the money, that he was net financially able to do sc. Ithen took the matter up with the American Min ister and gave him a complete report of the facts.
 During my first visit in August. in locking oyer the documents and pa. pers concerning the concession I found that this man had, both as individual and aspres!dent of the Barrero Mining Co. which was alleged to be the as signee owner cf the Pedro Brian con. cession made a lease to some Phila. delphia men of this same property. The lease provided that substantial machinery capable of handling 1000 yd per day shoul1 be installed as soon as possible, and that preliminary work must be began prior to Septem- Der 13, 1913 Therefore, the lease to and the mcney paid on sccount of same, as fraudulent transaction while the previous lease was in exist ence. One of the parties to the lease came to Santo Domingo and began preliminary work about September 3, 1913. and while 1t was claimed that he got on the wrong property, he and his men swore differently. During their operation. however five of the emp3 yes died suddenly with what was alleged to be fever, but it was afterward rumored around the city that they were poisoned. While fever does exist at times among the natives the fact of so many people dynE suddenly within a couple of weeks in the same locality was remarkable
 The alleged owner of the Pedro Bran concession, the Bueno Ventura concession. and tie president of the Barrero Mining Co. was Ely Dorsey man who was originally supposed 10 come from Virginia and who has been living in SanS Domingo Tor many years He was also the owner or part owner of nearly all the other | concessions in this neiehtorhood. ln umately associated with him Is one Pardo, the Santo Domingo agent oi the Clyde iI.ne, and I am inforEed that the following parties were more or less interested in the concessions known as the Ozana. Cua,lo, Jaina ar Santa Rosa: Ely Dorsey, Pardo Gcnzales, Vincente Francischini; Rod rigues, Leont yasquez. and others only know of my personal knowl edge that my samples were salted by employees of Ely Dorsey.
 Tie purpose of this recital is tc warn prospective investors from un dertakngs of this character They would be a good deal safer in p'ayina "three-cerd Monte" or shell game against au expert swlndler
 It might be interesting to state the probable manner in which thif saltlng was done, From the best oi my judgment due tc inspection and statements made by some of the Dom inicans, the natives engaged Tn ths work carried in their pockets smal pellets of clay, prepared fresh eaci day, and about tbe size of a homco pathic pills. Each one of these con tainei a few particles of gold At con venient times theIis were secreueo between the fingers and released . among the dirt which was to DC banned. The women whc did the pan ming and who also performed theN part in the salting when necessary carried the particles of gold in th' pocket which contained their smok ing pipe, and as, they were incessan smokers and always smoked hefor' banning. took out a few particles O
 gold with their pipe and readii' dropped it into the pan without ais coyely. As this operation has beeI going CT for good many years there is no doubt that they are al skil,ful and dexterous ms a magician or sleight of hand performer.