Show LANDING THE SUCKERS it is an ail old saying that a sucker is born every minute this is undoubtedly true as far as it goes but it could have hav just as well have been said that the sucker is born in pairs for the underbrush is so gj full of them that a goldbrick gold brick promoter tor can catch two on oil a line and sometimes inies three and the activity of the wildcatter wild catter calter at this season of tile year cannot well vell be overestimated over estimated tile the only thin thing g regrettable in this open season for suckers is that tile the federal government has no alc license inse to ferret out and run down these despoilers of sweet in innocence n os these gold brick artists who are i serious menace to tile mining industry for they aliey are so adrift as a general rule asto as to be able to avoid the clutches of the law although no one can doubt their guilt not so long ago but that the incident 1 still fresh in the memory of at least two or three victims the trio visited one oj of mining districts in company with avith a shark whose shady record stretches back for a quarter of a century or more and whose victims of wrecked hopes are to be found in nearly every state in the union tile the day before a noted mining engineer had made an inspection of the mine in ill which the shark with malice aforethought as the criminal lawyer would say was endeavoring to interest his spellbound suckers and he reported to his friends that there was not a hatfull of ore left in the workings of the mine the shark on tin way homeward in the congenial and inspiring railway palace car conventionally termed the smoker talked gleefully and learnedly to his three would be benefactors while it happened that the engineer yas was also an ail occupant of the same public conveyor and the engineer was listening while the shark boasted of how with his three companions lie he had been six hours under ground and that during all of that time they had looked upon nothing but immense mense bodies of commercial ore he further ventured the assertion that the ore body was feet wide and that while not quite equal to the great utah copper mine at Bing bingham liam now producing a million a week that the mine was a near blood relation to this queen of them all and that while as often stated comparisons are odious the mine in which his three suckers were soon to become interested could well be mentioned in the same breath with italis premier dividend pay er it may well be stated that it was not the smoke that made the engineer sick at the stomach for the balance of the party the shark and the suckers were all ail ing cigars that came wrapped in tin foil and only one in a box but lie he is wondering why there is no law that can land behind prison bars real criminals who pose before the investing public as promoters and real mine makers |