Elder's young son, Henry C. Elder has received gratuitously, from an unknown agent in New York, five engraved certificates for stock in the Silver Mountain Mining Company, supplsedly the result of a long forgotten investment, and now worth $500. This boy has never made any "investment" any larger than 25¢ for some prize or trinket and has always received his purchases through the mail. When the boy wrote the agent inquiring about the cash value of the stock, he received no answer, but in the mail of that day he received a statement from the Board of Directors, which he encloses. Enclosure is present. Elder believes the whole thing is a baited trap for gullible people and so asks McMaster to hunt up the company and if they are rascals, to warn the people of them. In case Elder misjudged them he wishes to be notified at once. P.S. He asks that the Freeman's Journal be continued to Father Denoyelle of Arnaudville, Louisiana. The enclosures are as follows: A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.