Show DIVIDENDS FROM THE START A dividend paying stock that is obtainable at a reasonable figuro figure should certainly be a good investment and such stocks generally stand well with the investing public but a dividend paying stock that can be secured at two cents a share is too cheap to be really good the experienced man never expects a mine to pay dividends until some time has been expended in its development and equipment and even then it may take two or three years to place the property on a re regular ular producing and paying basis this being the case one would naturally look with wonder and some skepticism upon the proposition of buying shares in a prospect with the assurance that it will pay dividends from the start and this wonder would be increased when it is learned that the treasury stock in the company can be purchased at two cents a share this glowing proposition is made in an advertisement appearing in a colorado mining publication and this publication by the way should receive the immediate attention of the postal authorities inasmuch as the advertisement referred to and others of the same stripe found in the columns of this paper are of the fraudulent order and calculated to separate the fool from his money on short notice according to the advertisement alluded to the company has in ore in sight anthe on the dump and in its mine workings and note this alluring bait the first carload goes to the shareholders how any wideawake wide awake investor can be induced to buy stock in a proposition of this character is beyond comprehension there is no doubt but that the entire proposition is fraudulent and for the reason that no legitimate company with in ore blocked out and in sight 0 in its mine workings would sell its stock for two cents a share if any company had a mine of this character and worth no difficulty would be encountered in securing the money needed to make mahe initial shipments to the smelters shelters sm elters and if this were a bonafide mining proposition no one could buy the stock of the company at fifty cents or a dollar a share let alone the insignificant sum of two cents the man who invests in a proposition of this kind might a as well kiss his money goodbye good bye as he will never see it again nor will he ever receive any dividends the company advertising a fake of this kind should be prosecuted by the government and a mining paper publishing such advertisements should be denied the privilege of the mails to say the least |