The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-11-30
The Trump
Card Mine
By GUY HALLEck

) my savings in It, bad subscribed 70
my stock when the owners were form
ing the company aud they needed mon
ey. Consequently I got good lot 0
stock for very little cash Three hun
dred and fifty dollars was al had
but ii bought me 10000 shares Of stock
Tie lead" on which the value OF thi
mine depended soon died out, and thu
mine appeared 20 be worthless, but the
incOmprators knew OF paying veins
/ which ran ia our direction and believed
that some Of them extended into om
property. 50 they held on tmtn a rich
vein was 81 covered on adjoining prop
cry. aud there was line chance by
digging down hundred feet to strike
I the extea ion But those Interested IN
both mines Kept the secret from out.
/ siders, and our mana egs got on to it
I only from their ucigbbors trying 10
buy VS. out
! frgs completely ignorant of al this.
one morDiu, I was told that the com
pany had no more work for me, Il hay.
ing collapsed. but since the original
owners did not ike 10 see me lose any.
thing they would buy my stock al what
| had paid for IT, I thanked them, but
told them that / saw no reason why /
should not suffer with the rest and ]
would put the certificates away aud
consider them charged up to profit
and loss. But they insisted on making
me whole and 1. unsuspicious, sold
them my stock.
For some time after this, so fur as /
knew. there was nothing doing in the
Trump Card mine Occasionally there
was a quotation at from 3 to cents a
share on the mining stock exchange.
One evening while walking by the
properly / WAS surprised to see some
w0rkmen coming out of hole in the
ground, carrying their dinner pals. /
asked one Of them Il they had been
at work, but he was Norwegian and
spoke no English IN fact not man
OF the lot could understand u word l |
said
II had simply discovered that work |
vas being done IN the mine | would
not have become suspicious But that
the owner had thought fit TO employ |
only those who could not commuhl-
'ate with inquirers seemed singular |
since when | was working
Tor them their men were mostly Amer
cans
Looking At the sales list Of stocks
hat evening in the newspaper, | saw
more sales Of Trump CHFd shares than
had noticed for several weeks previ-
'us, though the price had only advanc-
d a fraction. | wondered If some
hing was going on That night I lay
wake thinking
sent my wife to linger IN the Neigh
Orhood Of the mine aud watch. She
nw nothing unusual There was moth
ng alive In II so far as she could see.
The same night went 10 the prop
rty and sat ON stump near by till
o'clock iu the morning. when a cart
,omed ont Of the darkness and pass.
! away into the darkness again.
0ticed that Il was without creak. l
new enough about mines to believe 8
nat It was carrying ore, and the axles =
ere mutilcd
The next day went down TO Den
'r. where | procured an interview
ith man who had held lot Of a
rmp card stock, but had sold II at W
small profit before the mine collaps- q
l. told him that ! could give him
pointer ON a prospective rise In O
rtain stock and secured n contract p
ON him that II | named It and he
'ught and made profit he was to
We me 10 per cent Of his gains Then
told him that believed there was
mcthlng up in Trump Card, 7
He consented to make a small invest. ,
cnt IN II by way Of observing its eff,
ct ON the market. and. being busy W
mselt committed the matter to me- ..
found that the only stock to be had |
Pre- scattered shares held by those Il
no considered their Investment a p
ad loss, ana most Of these did not
re 70 sell at the present low market
ice This strengthened the conf
nee Of my hacker and when pro-
sod 70 SO about among the former
ookholders and pick an the stock at q
ivatc sale, paying an advance on the n
1rket price for it, he asseuted.
IN this way | got what stock did not I"
long 70 the original owners, and u
en- I began 10 bid for more ON the OK \
mHe Some stock gume out, and my
rkrr feared that we were buying a q
adj horse But It turucd out that the ri
ls had sold some stock to prevent fr
g price from going up. This they did
cause some OF them had not got All O
p shares they wanted,
When had bought all the shares niv
eker would stand for and had put ~
els the money ] had received for
'SC the managers had so kindly re- | 4
we'd me Of, | was obliged 10 await
yolopmcntS, They came one day
lcn there was scramble for Trump
rd stock on the exchange, and It
mt mp like squirrel climbing the Ia
lRk OF a tree. MY wife. who was as ~
lch absorbed in the matter as |,
me to me with the papers giving an VI
'oupt Of "a Stir I'm Trump Card" sc
1 threw her arms around my neck. -,
lighted
evidently the secret whatever il Z
S, had come out, The company had 50
uck a new vein not connected with r.
y other and was getting out ore that
ayed $500 to the ton.
reaped small fortune, but after
I was disgrmtlcd because diCl not 1"
revenge on those who had bought fr
stock Tor a song when they saw Nh
, prospects ahead
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