THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
July 27, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Don’t ship produce of any kind with¬ 
out first ascertaining the reliability and 
responsibility of the party or house to 
which you are shipping. 
A friend of mine, a merchant, sent T. M. 
Wells, of the Crescent Egg Case Co., 2(15 
Cates avenue. Brooklyn, N. Y., $30 on 
.March 5, 1012, for second hand egg cases. 
The check was cashed but no cases came. 
He wrote Mr. Wells and received reply that 
ihe cases would be shipped the coming 
week. Since then nothing has been heard 
from him, although one registered letter 
was returned marked "removed.” Previous 
purchases had been made from Mr. Wells, 
but guess it is a case of where the pitcher 
went to the well once too often. We shall 
be thankful for any information you can 
give us. I. e. w. 
New York. 
We enclose claim against Mr. Wells, of 
the Crescent Egg Case Co., of Brooklyn, 
for money advanced, $49.14. We would 
like you to turn this claim and papers at¬ 
tached over to your attorney if you can¬ 
not make the collection, or to the Post 
Office authorities if you think best. 
Pennsylvania. f. m. k. 
Enclosed find letter from T. M. Wells, 
Brooklvu, N. Y. I sent him a check for a 
car of egg cases and he sent a car, half 
the contents being for me and the other 
half for another party. The second car 
which he promised to send has not come 
and a letter written him has been returned 
undelivered. Will you look him up and 
see if we can get our cases? lie owes 
for 220 cases. The car was 20 cases short, 
and as 1 took my cases out last I had to 
stand the shortage. 1 would like to have 
the cases or the $11.55 which I paid him. 
for the cases. G. c. h. 
New York. 
One of our representatives followed 
up these cases but was unable to get 
any definite information as to Mr. 
Wells’ whereabouts. It was said he 
had gone to Orient, Long Island, but 
letters sent to that point have been re¬ 
turned by the post office with advice 
that he could not be found; letters sent 
to the Brooklyn address have also been 
returned. There does not seem to be 
anything further we can do. Mr. Wells 
will probably turn up at some other 
place sometime and work the game all 
over again. We understand there were 
numerous creditors after him, some 
coming from Chicago. 
A few days before Christmas, 1910, I re¬ 
ceived at the United States Express office 
an empty pasteboard box which had con¬ 
tained some Christmas gifts. Expressage 
amounting to 50 cents was prepaid. 1 put 
in a claim, but have only received indefinite 
promises. Now I might be able after som<* 
further effort to pry them loose from that 
jimount, but no doubt it would be diflicult. 
They need the money. It would pay the 
dividend on one share of that water. I will 
turn the matter over to you and maybe you 
can make something out of it. H. R. G. 
Ohio. 
It was nearly a year after shipment 
was made that the claim was sent to 
us. The express company came to this 
office and denied all responsibility and 
declined the claim. We refused to ac¬ 
cept this decision, and insisted upon 
tracer being started from the delivery 
end, as there would necessarily be some 
record there if they offered the man an 
empty box. July 1, 1912, voucher was 
delivered to us for $16.50. 
I notice you have a department d* voted 
to imparting information about fake in¬ 
vestments. Can you give me any advice 
about the Nevada-Marble Company, who had 
headquarters in Eos Angeles? They have 
had some of my coin for three years now, 
but have not had any returns from them. 
The money was supposed to be used to get 
title to some valuable marble deposits in 
Nevada or Utah. E. H. S. 
Minnesota. 
Our information shows that this com¬ 
pany is inactive; they failed to keep up 
their assessment work on the Nevada 
property and title to it has been lost. 
The stock has little or no value at pres¬ 
ent. 
On April 11, 1911, I shipped a basket of 
fancy eggs, valued at $25 and sold for that 
amount, to a farmer in Illinois, by Adams 
Express Company. The basket and eggs 
were broken, some eggs taken out altogether. 
Each egg was marked with a special mark 
in indelible pencil, but when received two 
were broken, five marked with pencil and 
five not marked at all, and of the five that 
were marked no two marks were alike. 
There must have been some substitution. 
I replaced the eggs to customers free and 
gave express bill to the company. I have 
written them several times but they have 
never answered yet. What can you do for 
me? They were delivered to my customer 
by the American Express Company, but 
neither company will adjust the matter. 
Connecticut. c. a. b. 
The Adams Express Company settled 
with check for $25 on March 31, 1912. 
The eggs were specially selected from 
the best exhibition mated pen of Golden 
Laced Wyandottes. The eggs were care¬ 
fully packed in good strong basket and 
covered with cloth; handle built upright 
so nothing could be laid on it. When 
delivered the basket was broken and 
the cloth off the eggs missing and sub¬ 
stituted as above. The Company wanted 
to compromise, but we insisted that the 
shipper was damaged to the full extent 
and finally received the claim in full. 
1 am sending under separate cover copies 
of the Mexican Enterprise, a proposition 
that is being promoted by the Jantha Plan¬ 
tation Co.. 612 Magee Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa., 
who claim through their literature to be 
responsible bankers and are selling five- 
acre plots which after three years they 
agree to have cleared and planted with Im¬ 
ported bananas, harvest and market crop, 
and share proceeds (bananas starting to 
bear after two years) and give title to 
land, also a city lot, for a total amount of 
$750, to be paid in installments. After the 
fifth year (at a low estimate) the orchard 
should yield a profit of $1,000 per annum. 
Could you tell me in "Publisher’s Desk” 
if this company is reliable and what yon 
think of their claim of 10 per cent on in¬ 
vestment for first year’s crop. j. w. k. 
Pennsylvania. 
The company seems not to be rated, 
and our information is that the officers 
refused to go into details of their re¬ 
sponsibility further than to say they 
have 27,000 acres of land in Mexico, 
and that they are trying to establish a 
town by giving a lot free to purchasers 
of five-acre lots. We have never known 
a scheme of the kind to work out suc¬ 
cessfully for the investors. Experience 
shows that there is no such profit in 
banana growing.. If there were, own¬ 
ers of the lands would not be looking 
for people to buy it. What do we think 
of 16 per cent profit on first year’s crop? 
We think the man who puts his money 
into this or other schemes of the kind, 
will never see 16 per cent of it again in 
his lifetime. 
I a mwriting to thank you for the prompt 
response regarding the commission house. 
I consider Thu Rural New-Yorker the 
king of all the six farm papers 1 am tak¬ 
ing. The stand your paper takes about 
crooks and rogues and the help it gives 
its subscribers is unusual, and is greatly 
appreciated by me and other subscribers 
here. Hope for all success for you in the 
future. e. p. 
New York. 
I just received a card from the United 
States Express Company that they are pre¬ 
pared to pay my claim of $.3 for the three 
cases of cherries lost in transit on June 
30, 1910. I wish to thank you for the 
interest you have taken in the matter, and 
also for the service you have rendered, as 
I do not think they would have paid any 
more attention to the claim. The excuse 
the agents usually make on the delay of a 
claim like this is that they are so rushed 
with work they cannot look after them, hut 
the fact of the. matter is a great percent¬ 
age of the claim papers do not leave the 
local office until they are asked for by the 
claim department of the express company. 
Michigan. f. r. ii. 
We think this is true, because a great 
many of our subscribers write us they 
filed their claim promptly but have been 
unable to get any attention or response 
and so send it to us. The shipment in 
question was made more than two j'ears 
ago. Two separate claims were filed 
previous to May, 1912, but F. R. H. was 
unable to get any information. July 1, 
1912, voucher was passed. 
Please accept the sincere thanks of my¬ 
self and friends, the latter being already in 
the web of this branch of the spider fam¬ 
ily. You arc doing more to guard Fhe 
unwary than all other papers combined so 
far as I have observed. J. F. x. 
New York. 
This refers to a Texas land company 
selling farms on easy payment plans. 
Our advice for this is the same as for 
Florida lands, or land in any other sec¬ 
tion. Investigate personally before buy¬ 
ing. 
Auction sales are an uncommon thing 
around here. Cornmeal $1.65 per 100; 
bran, best, $1.05 per 100; middlings, $1.55 
per 100; oats $2 per 100; wheat, $2 per 
100; potatoes, $1.50 a bushel: butter, 32 
cents a pound; cheese 14 to 14% cents per 
pound. Eggs 18 cents a dozen. Hay $18 
a ton baled. Cows $40 to $65. J. l. w. 
Barnes Corners, N. Y. 
Veals, live, 7% cents per pound; hogs, 
live, seven cents; bulls, live, four cents. 
Hay, Timothy. $20 per ton in barn. Milk 
two cents under specials and 12 cents al¬ 
lowed per 100 pounds for separated milk. 
At Eisle, three miles east of Center Lisle, 
at the station three cents per quart, caused 
by a new company starting. No fruit or 
gardening crops raised to have a stated 
price. h. h. H. 
Center Lisle, N. Y. 
Whex you write advertisers mention Th» 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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