First Principles in Mining Purchases.
Here are a few good leads to follow in buying mining stock. First make sure that there is a producing mine. Then make sure that the stock you get is not kited stock. But, above all, make sure of the responsibility, respectability and solidity of the firm from which you make the purchase.
[A GIANT SWINDLE.]
BANKS IN CHICAGO, NEW YORK AND LONDON BADLY FLEECED.
Bogus Notes and Stock—Many Firms Are Victims—Prisoners Said to Have Practiced Frauds Under Titles of Corporations—Chicago, September 14, 1906, Detectives Wooldridge and John Hill Uncover the Fraud—Five Men Arrested.
A remarkable story of swindling which, extended to many cities in America and to England, was disclosed, uncovering a gigantic forgery and check kiting plot as well as several fraudulent stock selling schemes.