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The Confessions of Artemas Quibble

CHAPTER IV
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a year.

There is no reason in the world why Sawhide should not do as well if not better.

With immense quantities of ore just beneath the surface, when our new smelter is completed Sawhide will undoubtedly prove one of the best dividend payers in the country! As the Buggenheims and other well-known financiers are largely interested in the stock, it is only a question of time before it will be marked up out of sight.

The properties have great surface value and are rolling in timber and mineral wealth." This is a fair example of a perfectly safe variety of advertisement that does not commit the author to anything.

As long as there is a piece of land somewhere and an actual incorporated company the stock of which, however valueless, is being offered for sale, the mere fact that the writer indulges himself in rosy prophecies does not endanger him so far as the criminal law is concerned.


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