Henry Janin
Books
- Diamonds in the Sand The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 and the Men Who Fooled America · Liszt Think
In 1872, two Kentucky prospectors convinced San Francisco’s elite that a remote Colorado mesa held untold riches.
- The Engineer’s Journey…curity for loans, for stock issues, for the machinery of corporate formation. In the second week of June 1872, their selection settled upon Henry Janin. His rooms occupied the third floor above Montgomery Street, where the banking district’s traffic rose as a constant murmur through open wi…
- The Syndicate Forms…rs of institutional commitment. On the morning of July 29, 1872, William Chapman Ralston sat at his desk in the Bank of California and read Henry Janin’s report for the third time. The document ran to several pages of close handwriting, punctuated by geological terms and measurements that R…
- The Syndicate’s Secret Agent…led to London and Amsterdam, had purchased rough stones with the proceeds, had salted their mesa with enough geological variety to convince Henry Janin during his brief inspection. The syndicate’s advantage lay not in superior knowledge but in superior organization: the Bank of California’s…