| Show bear river city the recent warning by one of your correspondents to the people ol of this section to seriously consider before investing any ot of their surplus means in rubber stock plantations or banana or fig orchards several thousands miles from their own personal observation opens up one more thought on the tha same line tending to mislead through scrupulous misrepresentations the fabulous fortunes and enormous dividends investors might obtain by risking some of their hard earnings in oil well stock the recent strike of oil in southern utah and the bucl lucky Y strike of a few mines in nevada have had and is having its financial effect upon many in our county to their sorrow and regret tho the gift promoter promoted with his oily oil y tongue the bottle of oil in his pocket with oil saturated rock the big oil derricks in the fiell field where you never expect to get and the company never intends to er you are asked to take a chance a gamble of odds of ten to one against you one smooth sni coth religious ought to be honest promoter preyed upon tile the honest tillers of the soil in this county selling and showing beautiful certificates of oil well stock representing a conal company any capitalized for and more of these fellows wili will be coming explaining how many shares mr has taken and how many another mr has taken to satisfy my curiosity I 1 called up mr ind and inquired it lie ho had bought worth ot of this oil well stock to my surprise 11 was informed that hat a certificate of stock for the amount was left ou on th the e gentle mans desk which lie he never neve r agreed to take out or pay for it was only it a alue to which the agent could refer others that sir mr had taken worth ot of stock in the company another party did take a few dollars worth of stock but his certificate reads for four times as much stock as be paid for ills his name was needed to fool others when strangers representing new enterprises enter prizes with which we are not familar take the precaution to I 1 injure noure from persons familar with that special una line of business our chance at home to better out our surroundings with that small surplus has many points in its favor that false notion luck hick is the craze for speculation that sweeps over the community occasionally tho the party who might be counted on as making something ovit out of nothing practically is that worthless worthies s promoter who for any other purpose might elgh be worth his weight for second class fertilizer john P holmgren Kolm gren |
