My Adventures with Your Money

Name: My Adventures with Your Money
Author: Rice, George Graham

Rice, George Graham

Mineral industries -- Finance; Speculation

_The Rise of Wingfield and Nipon._
    _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._


  VI NIPISSING AND GOLDFIELD CON                                  179

    _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._


 VII RAWHIDE                                                      219

    _Real Gold at Rawhide._
    _The Rawhide Coalition Mines Company._
    _A Race of Gamblers._


VIII THE PRESS AGENT AND THE PUBLIC'S MONEY                       227

    _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._


  IX THE WALL STREET GAME                                         264

    _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._


   X ENTER, B. H. SCHEFTELS AND COMPANY                           288

    _More Truth on the "Mining Financial News."_
    _The Scheftels Principles._
    _The Scheftels Company Against Margin Trading._


  XI A FIGHT TO THE DEATH                                         308

    _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 and Co._
    _A Tool's Confession._
    _The Guggenheims._


 XII THE LESSON OF IT ALL                                         362




FOREWORD

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My Adventures with Your Money

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