Departures of note

Through B.H. Scheftels & Company, George Graham Rice manipulated the stock of Ely Central Copper Company. He pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 1911 and served a year in prison, where he wrote his autobiography. The autobiography was serialized in Adventure magazine and published as My Adventures with your Money in 1913.

George Graham Rice was convicted of grand larceny in 1920. In 1928 he was sentenced to four years in the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, for defrauding investors in the Idaho Copper Company. He was tried for tax evasion in 1931 but was acquitted.