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MY ADVENTURES WITH
YOUR MONEY
BY
GEORGE GRAHAM RICE
RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
BOSTON
Copyright, 1911, by The Ridgway Company
Copyright, 1913, by Richard G. Badger
All rights reserved
The Gorham Press, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
To The American Damphool Speculator, surnamed the American Sucker, otherwise described herein as The Thinker Who Thinks He Knows But Doesn't—greetings!
This book is for you! Read as you run, and may you run as you read.
G. G. R.
New York, March 15, 1913.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| I | THE RISE AND FALL OF MAXIM & GAY | 11 |
| The Birth of an Idea to Coin Money. | ||
| The Higher Mathematics of the Operation. | ||
| How "The One Best Bet" Was Coined. | ||
| Real Inside Turf Information. | ||
| The Public Asks to Be Mystified. | ||
| Prestige Restored by a Clerk's Ruse. | ||
| A Boastful Race Player Gives Aid. | ||
| Fortune Changes Her Mood and Smiles Again. | ||
| The Kentucky Colonel Falls in Line. | ||
| Betting the Public's Money at Great Profit. | ||
| $130,000 Is Lost and Won in a Day. | ||
| A Disastrous Newspaper Wind-up. | ||
| II | MINING FINANCE AT GOLDFIELD | 46 |
| A Partnership of Pure Nerve. | ||
| Bucking the Tiger on the Desert. | ||
| Bidding $3,000,000 When Broke. | ||
| Millions in the Vista Held No Charms. | ||
| "Human Interest" Versus Technical Mining. | ||
| Beginning the Advertising Business. | ||
| Some Advertising that Paid. | ||
| Building Gold Mines with Publicity. | ||
| Hair-Raising Stories for Distant Readers. | ||
| The Mercury of Speculation. | ||
| The Birth of Bullfrog. | ||
| Enter, Charles M. Schwab. | ||
| Why the Bottom Fell Out. | ||
| How About the Public's Chances? | ||
| Jumping Jack Manhattan. | ||
| III | THE BREWING OF A SATURNALIA OF SPECULATION | 89 |
| Trying It on the Stray Dog. | ||
| Advertising for Thinkers. | ||
| Yes, "Business Is Business." | ||
| Fortunes that Were Missed. | ||
| The Tale of Bullfrog Rush. | ||
| Prize Fights and Mining Promotion. | ||
| The Year of Big Figures. | ||
| The Story of Goldfield Consolidated. | ||
| At the Height of the Frenzy. | ||
| IV | THE GREENWATER FIASCO | 133 |
| Getting Into the Game. | ||
| All the Copper in the World. | ||
| The Collapse of Greenwater. | ||
| The Shame and the Blame. | ||
| V | ON THE EVE OF THE GREAT GOLDFIELD SMASH | 144 |
| The Rise of Wingfield and Nipon. | ||
| The Winnings of a Tenderfoot. | ||
| I Am Landed High and Dry. | ||
| The Beginning of the Raid. | ||
| Some Pertinent Personalities. | ||
| The Time When Money Talks. | ||
| Clouds in the Western Sky. | ||
| From Credit to Crash. | ||
| Down with the Sullivan Trust Company. | ||
| Some Hindsight that Came Too Late. | ||
| VI | NIPISSING AND GOLDFIELD CON | 179 |
| An Orgy in Market Manipulation. | ||
| The Guggenheims Enter Nipissing. | ||
| Nipissing on the Toboggan. | ||
| Who Got the $75,000,000? | ||
| The Wonder Mining-Camp Stampede. | ||
| Teague Attacks Senator Nixon. | ||
| "Calling for a Show-Down." | ||
| Manipulating Goldfield Con. | ||
| Enter, Nat. C. Goodwin & Co. | ||
| The Story of the Goldfield Labor "Riots." | ||
| The Death of Governor Sparks. | ||
| VII | RAWHIDE | 219 |
| Real Gold at Rawhide. | ||
| The Rawhide Coalition Mines Company. | ||
| A Race of Gamblers. | ||
| VIII | THE PRESS AGENT AND THE PUBLIC'S MONEY | |