The Arizona copper camp., 1917-10-27
EDITORIAL
ENEMIES OF ARIZONA.


corporation commission of the most glarng specimens
of fraudulent literature circulated by the willy min
ing promoter This particular booklet which described
in greater detail in another column full of bareaced
lies about the property to be developed and the invest
ment laws of this state that would be positively funny
not for the fact that is being read and accepted
as gospel truth by lot of innocent suckers in the east
who never copper mine, and know much about
mining investments they do about Sanskrt
Any who will write a booklet telling the public
that he his company has "copper" enough in sight to
supply the entire United States for 25 years and that
the tests have made and the opinion of experts all
agree that the quantity (o copper is great that it
could not be removed in thousand years. is liar and
he knows it himself When in addition to these garing
falsehoods, he says that mine in northern Yuma county
is located close to the ttle Daisy 200 miles away and
then CLOSES all with lot misrepresentation
about the mining and investment laws of Arizona which
every strict and drawn to prevent wildcatting he
becomes criminal of the worst stamp
Arizona has suffered much in the past from just this
sort OF thing and In spite OF buesy laws and the eg
atOry power OF the corporation commission it still go
ing to certain extent In this there be
way for the corporation commission to reach the guilty
parties who in Indiana Indiana has bue-szy law
and the only thing the corporation commission do
to revoke the companys stocsellg permit if in fact it
has not already expired But that will keep the pro-
moter from selling his stock to the unwary eastern sucker
who after he is stung, will be forever turned against
Arizona.
Arizona needs capital develop her great resources
not slicktOngued promoters to swindle people the
strength of false representations The under discus
sion is brazen but perhaps not dishonest than
of other fakes that have been oated in this state
the only difference is that most Of them cevery
gotten up than this If there is any under the
existing laws that the state get the fellows who
back OF this scheme the corporation commission and the
attorney general will be guilty of malfeasance in office if
they do not follow them up and that they punished
But, said above it may not be possible to reach
them through the state laws In that it would be
to the attorney general of Indiana and the federal de-
partment of Justice for certainly if sells stock
such he has been guilty of using the mails
to defraud.
cent investors who think they buying stock in great
mine in Arizona is not only thief and liar but also
enemy of the state of Arizona and the people of this
monwealth He is deliberately alternating capital which
we greatly need to develop matchess There
has been too much batting of the legitimate mining
poration in Arizona, too much railing at capital that IS
developing and building up this state and little
on paid by legislators to the problem of the who
deliberately alenates capital, swindles the widows and
orphans, and departing leaves behind him only some
gaudy stock certificates fiat pocketboos and the convc
ton that Arizona is land of disappointment.