Show I 1 WOULD BUY STOCK A recent issue of the salt isalt lake herald republican contained a story illustrative of the tendency of certain people to get rid of their money by investing in any old thing that comes along without investigation they are the kind who sooner or later meet a sharper with some beautifully engraved stock certificates in an imaginary mining concern and the mining industry thereupon gets another black eye the story is as follows in kennebunkport maine lives a tourist of the fair sex generally credited with being also a a school teacher who is much peeved at the state of utah because axel H steele conductor of sightseers at the state capitol refused to sell her stock in the mine from the dividends of which entire cost of the construction of the capitol building is to be paid the trouble had its inception when the v state began installation of a cesspool at the north end of the capitol use of a windlass for removing the dirt from the excavation was found necessary steele capitalized the windlass he also capitalized the pit above it from which workmen are taking gravel for use on the driveways pointing out the work at the two points to visitors lie he evolved yesterday a romantic tale of a rich strike of gold made at the very foundation of the capitol he pictured the hole for the cesspool as a mine and every bucket of earth removed as a potential source of wealth the abutting gravel pit was soon to see the foundation for a mill to turn the earthly product of the hole into yellow metal steele had no idea that any of the many visitors who heard his stor story y would put credence in it but the woman from maine did and she immediately asked if she could purchase stock on being questioned she said she had had mining experience in nevada and though she acknowledged that the net proceeds of her several ventures are tod bodny ay iy represented by several highly lithographed lithographer litho graphed stock certificates she was incensed when steele informed her that capitol gold mine is a close corporation in which the state will allow no outsiders to share |