Eureka Reporter | 1906-02-02 | Page 6 | Trick Easily Seen Through

TRICK EASILY SEEN THROUGH M ne promoters not sharp enough to dece ve hannah hannah I 1 can t make this out said the old farmer as he looked up from his paper here Is a company out west that advertises a gold mine it has 1000 worth of ore in sight it estimates the amount of ore on the claim to be at least its shares are par value and non assessable it offers shares at one cent each to the first 1000 people aiho apply it reads straight enough but i samuel what an old blockhead on are exclaimed the wife why even a blind man could see through that trick wall the trick why they want to make you a shareholder and as soon as that s done they 11 send on a begging letter ashing you to contribute 5 boward a steeple for some baptist chinch somewhere you lust let that stock alone we have been methodists for over thirty years and we have got along without a steeple to our church and it the baptists cant do the same let em sell off their cows to build one I 1 guess oure right hannah what tricks they do invent nowadays to make a man th he is going to get something for nothing and then find himself flip flopped baltimore american