I drew the picture of copper Boston as I have given it in the early part of this chapter. It astonished him.
"How do you prove that safety in this class of investment is more assured than in others?"
I reeled off the facts: A copper-mine, from the very nature of the business, must be developed years and years ahead before it entered the ranks as a regular producer. The price of the metal being practically fixed within certain limits, the mine's value, present and future, could always be told to a certainty.
He saw it. He put me through a thorough examination about my second claim that the price would advance 100 per cent. I again astonished him by showing him what a market there was and had been for many years for copper stocks, and that it was simply a question of educating investors at large to their merits to advance them to the price my plans called for.
When he came to the question of the amount to be invested and the aggregate amount of profit, he did not attempt to