Private Code Book Rules Trading by Anon (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice little pocket sized book intended for the mining industry, mainly western gold and copper mines. _____ Undated but statistics point to a date of 1909._____ The first printed page includes a serial number unique to the volume._____ In this case "10325", more than likely the first 10,000 were pure imagination. _____ The first 140 pages are of telegraph codes to be employed in the trading of mine stocks._____ "If a client wishes to telegraph an order to buy 1,000 shares of Goldfield Consolidated at $8.00 per share, his telegram would read as follows: "Affront Dumpy Monition" Reference to the Code Book will show that "Affront" reads "Buy 1,000 shares"; "Dumpy," = "Goldfield Consolidated"; "Monition," = "$8.00" ". _____ Thumb indexed for quick reference, the intent was as much to save Western Union's by-the-word fee as it was for secrecy. _____ The next 12 pages are the company's rules for its traders._____ . _____ Pages 153-183 are compiled company reports for various western mining companies in Nevada and Utah._____ These are followed by two pages of statistical tables for various mining companies monthly ore shipments for the year 1908._____ There are then 8 pages of._____stock high-lows, shares outstanding, par-values etc. for January 1909, heavily mining related, though there are some general stocks detailed as well. _____ There is crayon scrawling on the front cover and a few internal pages. _____.