Scarce work detailing the stock market manipulations of the owners and principal shareholders of the Consolidated Virginia and California Mining Companies. The controversy pitted Dewey against silver barons J.C. Flood, John W. McKay and James Fair, amid allegations of diversion of company funds for private use and profit. "Some remarkable revelations are made by the author, who has thoroughly exploited the extraordinary history of this great mining deal, that yielded colossal fortunes to a few daring and successful manipulators, and permanent poverty to several thousands of ill-advised and unfortunate dupes." (Cowan). Howes D311; Paher 476; Cowan (II) p. 168.