They were embellished with beautiful photographs of deep cuts, suspension-bridges, snow-sheds, railroad-yards, and round-houses.

The promoter did a mail-order business and sold the stock by the bagful to elevator men, trained nurses, policemen, porters, clerks, and servant girls.
After he had salted away about forty thousand dollars some of the purchasers began to get anxious about their dividends.

None were forthcoming, and as the promoter was inclined to be indefinite as to future prospects he was presently arrested.

But when the case came to trial I pointed out a fact that, strange as it may seem, practically no one of the multitude of stockholders had previously noticed, namely, that the circulars made no actual statement _as to where the railroad was located_.

By inference it might well have been supposed to be somewhere in Canada, but there was no such fact clearly alleged.