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Show A Teamster on " Beats. " BixGtfAM, March 11, lar 1. ,; EJifora Herald: In the Herald of the 7th innt. 1 noticed a communication ' headnd.. "Miner, on, .Frauds"' in,' wbioh the writer speaks ot "dead -heata" arm "bilks" ,J What a 'chn'ntrt' this "is for them to flock to ! They come hart in all forms and shapes. W havtv judges, lawyers, ministers, governors, miners, capitalists, mining ex purls-, and in fact in every branch o busi-M ness. The particular fcne'f de.sire to show np is thu "Bilk-' that comes ,in, the shape of a pretended capitahsi from the east who has put in his appearance ap-pearance lately in our minim; cumpi.. He is a man who requires your at tention and the atlouuou ol minors and teambters.; These illicit distillers and hilt cap;-italists cap;-italists find out that during tho winter win-ter some poor minor h is oprned a W1.,a u.l ml-on mil Sl,irar,il dred tons of good ore, but owing to (he hard times cannot sell it. Theev frauds paes themselves tiff as moneyed men, ?t acquainted with the miner, look at his property, ask the prieeanii if the miner Bays $oO,UOU the bilk wells up, takes two or three pufis at his cigar, looks wise and remarks, 'I will take your property, sir, if you will wait sixty days tor me to send east lor my money." The miner talks with his pirtner.and they come to the conclusion that the bilk is all right, and let him take the property. The dfied iB then made out and placed in escrow, when the dead heat sayB he will put some men to work at In own expense. He takes charge ol the mine iu about two or three days, and tells the miner that he ha.s bought or rented a smelter and thinks he had better commence to get the ore down ready for smelting. He next hires teamsters to get the ore to the depot and Btarte lor thejunction to nee the superintendent 1 ot the railroad. rail-road. Dead beat swells up and Buys', "Mr. Superintendent. I have pur- chased a mine and 1 want to make arrangement for shipping forty tons of ore daily and wish to arrange to pay monthly." The superinteudeilt says the terms are cash on delivery, but finally on tue "dead beat" becoming be-coming indignant that any one should refuse to trust him, eunsunta to take the ore to the Binclter. r The sequel ip, the mine is worked about thirty days, is stripped and the oro dump hauled away, but the miners, teamttjrs and it. I. Co. receive re-ceive no money. ' :' ' I am oncjof the teamsters who have been victimized in such a tnnisac-tion. tnnisac-tion. I understand the "capitalist"' who played the game has now turned his attention to Cottonwood, saying Bingham ores do not pay to" work. ' ' Teamster,"' |