The Holbrook news., 1919-01-24
InUestments In Pioneer
 Companies AdUisabIe

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 mystery about it. -but the na
 tural inclination is for the aver
 age man to keep his own busi ness to himself. However. iron
 time to time the veil is liftet
 and we learn that this acquain
 tance or that has realized on ; judicious investment and ha
 placed himself beyond the petty
 cares of everyday life. More
 often than not the fortunate one
 owes his sudden aff1uence to the
 initial representations of stock
 salemen. The modern idea is
 influence by the trend of the
 times, the higher cost of living,
 the broader expanse of activity,
 the growing number of demands
 upon the average income. and It
 is not question whether or not
 a man shall invest, but in what shall he place his money. Only a few decades ago a man was considered wealthy with a home and a few thousand dollars ready cash, and it was only the man of means who dabbled ex- tensively in investments.
 The man of today cannot be content with the knowledge that he will receive a stated monthly stipend-no more, and the man of family, viewing the ever in creasing cost of existence, looks about to find a reasonable chance of making an investment that will relieve him of some of his worries. Usually he has not enough money to permit his try ing a sure thing which will only pay him an interest on his in vestment- what he wants is something that will pay BIG and he is willing to take a gambling chance. not infrequently happens that man is so eager to turn his money that he takes for granted any representations that may be made to him and without investigation, or even knowledge of the proposition, places his money. As in bank ing and everyday business. pro- fessions and trades, crooks mas querade in some investment en- terprises. but because some pro- motors are crooked is no reason to believe that all promotions are fakes. You might as req sonably believe that because your grocer puts sand in your sugar that all grocers are beats, or that because one banker ab- seconded, all banks are unsafe.
 Some of the most prosperous communities of the country are the result of the efforts of hard working and sometimes discou- ragged stock saIesmen or promot- CTS. Here in Arizona most of us can call to mind some im- mensely important business or community that is the result of stock selling perhaps the stock was ridiculed by the wise ones". whom we always have with US. Many instances are told of various and unique ways have of trying to dispose of United Verde Extension (Little Daisy) stock. Some gave it away, some traded it for board bills or meal tickets; merchants have taken the stock under pro- test in payment of accounts and today a thousand shares of this stock is worth a small for tune and the enormous mine, shelter and the town which are a result of this promotion fur nish employment to thousands of men and the stock pays thou sands upon thousands of dollars in dividends to the fortunate holders. Oil stocks of the mid dle west and Texas fields have had the same history.
 Promotion and stock selling are necessities. Many a wealthy man of today can trace the be- ginning of his fortune to. the purchase of some stock that quite likely he was begged to buy. It is a safe and sound policy to invest. but some care should be taken in making the investment. The personeI of