Judge — March 10, 1923 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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trying to shake out the small fry preparatory to the rise. They couldn’t shake us. Indeed when Aztec Gold fell to a cent and a half we decided to support the market and bought an- other hundred shares. This was a shrewd move. Our los on this deal turned out to be far smaller than on the original investment. B" PRETTY SOON Aztec Gold went to nothing. At such a price it was difficult to sell and almost as hard to buy. The mine just dropped out of public cons s. In vain we scanned the newspapers for some mention of it. There was not so much as a line in the personals or the lost and found columns. It wa if the earth had opened up and swallowed Left at the post. The greatest gam- bler on the floor. than two dollars. That scemed to us a small price for the itement which w ined from the deal. Still, the responsibil s too great. We felt, for instance, that we ought never to purchase any rails or structural iron xcept from our own concern, The mar ut the hardware store much annoyed because of our insistence at knowing whether the knives and forks for the kitchen had come from anyone of our own mills. As a matter of fact we might still be a participant in the great enterprise if it were not for the strike. When that came along and we learned of the conditions under which much of our unskilled labor worked we immediately dumped our hold- ings on the market to embarrass Mr. Gary. From that day ral the mine and all its equipment and workers. Curiously to this we have never spoken. ‘ enough the metropolitan press remained entirely callous con- aos a cerning the tragedy. deep sea divers or other rescuing . . selling rarlies weresummoved. Asferaswecouldascetameventhe ‘The! Songs My Mother Never Taught Me ar the formality of appointing a receiver was neglected, — by Robert C. O'Brien onto Some day or other we intend to make a pilgrimage to the . bs, fallow mouth of the Aztee mine and find out just what happened to s most of the popular song writers of the United States worlds it. Unfortunately we never knew more than that it was live north of Twenty-third street it is of course obvious csturb “Situated in, Northern Arizona in the heart of the greatest why so many of the songs are about the South, The cr Ship. mining district in the world.” We also understood that the of ‘the song population, formerly Nashville, Tenn., is_ now a railroad was going to run out a spur in order to get the gold to situated in the little town of Ebony, Ala., about one hour's market. Presumably that project has been abandoned. We may have to make the journey on mule back. Still, even if there isn’t any gold, we ought to have the right asa stockholder to set up a summer bungalow on the property and to flood the mine and make our own private swimming pool. ride by willing mule from where you start in that State, or about three days if the mule is not obliging no matter where you start from. The following chart, showing percentage of song of the various locali should spend the absorption a glance why arctic explorers ir'long evenings composit Or course we have dealt in more stable commodities, such Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia. . AT as United States Steel. That has endured in spite of our North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky. 43. support. Indeed we once drew a dividend and at the end of a Other Southern States....... 9.573 year and a half we sold our ten shares with a net loss of less All other Mammys, including the Scandina 427 Matching pennies (brokers’ favorite sport). 11 comicbooks.com