This company has already purchased large interests in Anaconda Copper Company, Parrott Silver and Copper Company, Washoe Copper Company, Colorado Smelting and Mining Company, and other companies and properties. MARCUS DALY, Pres., H. H. ROGERS, Vice-Pres., WM. G. ROCKEFELLER, Sec'y and Treas. NEW YORK, April 28, 1899. =OFFER FOR PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTIONS.= Referring to the foregoing statement of the Amalgamated Copper Company of New Jersey, notice is hereby given that offers for subscription to 750,000 shares of the par value of $100 each of the stock of the said copper company will be received at the National City Bank of New York, until 12 o'clock noon, Thursday, May 4, 1899, at the rate of $100 per share. Subscriptions must be addressed to the said bank and accompanied by a certified check to its order for 5 per cent. of the amount of such subscription, the balance to be payable within 10 days after date of notice of allotment. Temporary negotiable receipts on payment of sums due on allotment will be issued exchangeable for certificates of stock, as soon as same can be engraved. In case of oversubscription, allotment will be made pro rata. The right is reserved, however, to reject any subscription. NEW YORK, April 28, 1899. NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK, JAMES STILLMAN, President. =52 WALL STREET, NEW YORK.=] "I mean that we will waste no more words on this matter. The advertisements you can convince me are right you may have inserted in the papers, and no one will say a word publicly or otherwise. Neither William Rockefeller, his son, Stillman, the Bank nor any officer or director of the Amalgamated Company will talk until after the subscriptions have been closed and the allotments made; not one word but what you say or print will be uttered. Can you ask anything more than that?" "Not a thing more." I then laid out the rough copies of what afterward appeared in the papers throughout the country (reproduced on pages 336 and 338). CHAPTER XXIII THE FIRST CRIME OF AMALGAMATED