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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Rocky Mountain Int'l (OTC:RMIL former OTC:OVIS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Riley G who wrote (22185)	11/28/1997 9:39:00 AM
From: Riley G	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 55532

Fwd. Message...old... Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:17:30 -0500 Subject: Ovis Cartel Riley, I appreciate very much that you have been gracious enough to post a couple e-mails to SI for me. Frankly, prior to OVIS, I felt no compulsion to join SI, and now I must wait two weeks to post there. There have been some speculation on this and other threads that the Cartel is in some way illegally manipulating a price. I would like to dispel that rumor. Legislation under the Securities and Exchange Act was directed at Sindicates (not cartels). Their destructive practice was to accumulate based on insider information, shared through a network of good ol' boys that were privileged bankers, ceos and the like who withheld information from the public if it suited them in their accumulation phase, and then distributed into weak hands. That illegal practice has nothing to do with grass roots enthusiasm for a stock, sharing of public information and opinion and certificate calling. Don't be so nervous people. The Ovis Cartel's actions are virtually the OPPOSITE of the actions of a syndicate. Can the paranoia. Every armchair lawyer in SI land wants to sound like a personal friend of the SEC. I was looking for a historical precedent, and though I haven't compiled a massive list of successful squeezes, (no time) I like the example of Northern Pacific. Overvalued at 110, it shot up to one thousand dollars, a bears worst nightmare. What is most interesting, is that after the squeeze, it didn't tank back to or below it's pre-squeeze price, and didn't fall below three hundred. In terms of dollars per share this is a massive increase, in terms of percentage gain, it is only an extra thousand percent or so, oh well. Ovis is a different animal of course, actually more ripe for growth than an over valued large cap. Many would like to scoff Ovis faithfuls hopes of large gains, but they fail to realize that these situations are common in the generalities of remarkable companies. This is exactly how small companies become big companies. Watch it happen. Better yet, come on board.

To: Riley G who wrote (22185)	11/28/1997 9:43:00 AM
From: Riley G	Respond to of 55532

an excerpt from Forbes magazine A monster beverage event By Robert Lenzner TAKE A WALK around New York City on a warm weekend afternoon and observe what people are drinking. Coca-Cola? Starbucks coffee? A can of beer? All these, but by far the greatest number of people are quaffing plain aqua from plastic bottles. Bottled water, which used to be available only in health food stores, can now be found in supermarkets and convenience outlets, on pushcarts and at newsstands. Bottled water is the fastest-growing beverage category in the U.S. "Water has expanded from a tap water substitute into the beverage arena," says Gary Lamont, marketing vice president at McKesson Water Products Co., a division of McKesson Corp., a supplier of health products. "What used to be just for the upper elite is now a monster beverage event." As one might expect from a consumer economy, people aren't drinking water just from the tap. They are buying the stuff. Paying handsomely, too. A large bottle of S.Pellegrino-a favorite mineral water among the hip, well-heeled crowd-costs $1 to $1.25 wholesale. At Gotham Bar & Grill, one of New York City's top restaurants, the same bottle costs $6.25. Quite a markup. "People are willing to pay $3 for a cappuccino coffee, sometimes more than once a day. So why not pay $1.50 for water?" asks William O'Donnell, president of SanPellegrino USA. If switching to plain water isn't necessarily easy on the American pocketbook, it promises to do something for the American waistline. Bottled spring water has no calories, no additives, no sugar. Some of it carries calcium, magnesium, potassium and sulfates needed by the body. A lot of people think the bottled stuff tastes better. Publicity over rusty urban water pipes and scares about contamination from animal feces have scared many people. They object to the taste of chemicals like the chlorine necessary to purify city water systems. The International Bottled Water Association suggests that a 200-pound person doing moderate activity should drink 88 ounces of water a day. The association may be a suspect source, but the fact is that it is almost impossible to drink too much water. That's more than you can say of competing beverages. Compared with soft-drink sales of about $30 billion, the $3.4 billion bottled water business is small change, but it is growing at an annual rate of 9%. In 1976 Americans consumed on average 1.5 gallons of bottled water; by last year this had grown to 11 gallons. In Europe the figure averaged out to 19 gallons per head.