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Show There are so many people today who fall for any proposition .where they are promised something for nothing. This desire makes "gold mines" ol , the frauds and swindles of those who appreciate that people who will still "take a chance" for every one of them presents a chance no mat-1 mat-1 ter how certain to make the investor inves-tor rich. While there is a degree of chance in all oil and mining stocks, it - is chance that may be taken after investigation and proper exercise of judgment If the many Blnghamltes who have held stocks In the best mining properties of the camp used that Judgment that was necessary ; ' they would be in better financial condition than , 1 they are today; some of these people it seems would place more trust in outsiders than the. people with whom they were meeting every day; indeed there seems to be lacking ordinary precaution not wholly explained by the desire itself, for people will trust entire strangers preferably to people with whom they are acquainted. The Post Office Department is trying to protect the people from being swindled thru the malls, the department depart-ment estimates that thru mall matter mat-ter of one kind or another the people peo-ple are being "beat" to the tune of about a billion dollars a year. This mall matter runs all the way from printed circulars to the most confidential personal letters, and from full-page display to two or three line classified ads. The department de-partment 1b sending every swindler it can get its hands upon to jail, furthermore they are doing their utmost ut-most in warning the public against fraudulent schemes to get their money. It is advisable for anyone who desires to Invest their money on a proposition they know nothing about to first consult one of the three local bankers in camp and get the necessary advise before spending their hard-earned money on some "get-rich-qulck" scheme. Get Rich Quick Schemes The people of Gingham, as well as other prosperous communities are being be-ing pestered continuously by people who represent some new "Get-rich-t quick" scheme. But no matter how great one'a desire to get rich quickly, quick-ly, they never yet obtained something some-thing for nothing unless it was a Sift. The reason is that whatever has value, has price, perhaps not price in dollars and cents, but always al-ways In labor. While it is true one man will make good where the other loses, because of abilities, it is equally true something has been given for something. If the one or the other has miscalculated, the transaction is merely a bad bargain. |