My Adventures With Your Money

About this eBook

Author

Rice, George Graham

Title

My Adventures with Your Money

Credits

Produced by Steven desJardins, Dianna Adair and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HG: Social sciences: Finance

Subject

Mineral industries -- Finance

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44274

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44274

Release Date

November 24, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MY ADVENTURES WITH YOUR MONEY
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.CHAPTER I The Rise and Fall of Maxim & Gay — 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 WINDUP
5. 5.CHAPTER II Mining Finance at Goldfield — 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
6. 6.CHAPTER III The Brewing of a Saturnalia of Speculation — 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
7. 7.CHAPTER IV The Greenwater Fiasco — GETTING INTO THE GAME — ALL THE COPPER IN THE WORLD — THE COLLAPSE OF GREENWATER — THE SHAME AND THE BLAME
8. 8.CHAPTER V On the Eve of the Great Goldfield Smash — THE RISE OF WINGFIELD AND NIXON — 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
9. 9.CHAPTER VI Nipissing and Goldfield Con — 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
10. 10.CHAPTER VII Rawhide — REAL GOLD AT RAWHIDE — THE RAWHIDE COALITION MINES COMPANY — A RACE OF GAMBLERS
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII The Press Agent and the Public's Money — PUBLICITY VIA ELINOR GLYN — "AL" MILLER'S SIEGE — THE FUNERAL ORATION FOR RILEY GRANNAN — AMONG THE "BIG FELLOWS" — THE REVERSE ENGLISH — THE POWER OF THE PUBLIC PRINT — RAWHIDE AGAIN
12. 12.CHAPTER IX The Wall Street Game — GOOD BIG FISH VS. BAD LITTLE FISH — RIGHTEOUS WALL STREET AND THE "SUCKER" PUBLIC — THE MARKETING OF MINING STOCK — I BUCK THE WALL STREET GAME — THE "DOUBLE-CROSSING" OF RAWHIDE COALITION — "INSIDE" MARKET SUPPORT
13. 13.CHAPTER X Enter, B. H. Scheftels & Company — MORE TRUTH ON THE "MINING FINANCIAL NEWS" — THE SCHEFTELS PRINCIPLES — THE SCHEFTELS COMPANY AGAINST MARGIN TRADING
14. 14.CHAPTER XI A Fight to the Death — THE FIRING OF THE FIRST GUNS — THE STORY OF ELY CENTRAL — THE ASSAULT ON ELY CENTRAL — THE CLASH OF BATTLE — A BOMBSHELL IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP — A GOVERNMENT RAID IS RUMORED — THE RAID ON B. H. SCHEFTELS & CO. — A TOOL'S CONFESSION — THE GUGGENHEIMS
15. 15.CHAPTER XII The Lesson of It All

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