The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-07-24

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there is one thing | have always been
vain about. | didn't honestly think
there was a man in Georgia that could
give me any tips about investments,
but I had to take backwater, and for q
woman. Think of that-a woman
knocked me off my perch as clean and
easy as she could stick a hairpin in a
ball of hair. I'm not unfair. When
anybody teaches me any tricks, | ac-
knowledge the corn and take off my
hat. 1t was this way. | dropped III
to see Miss Dolly the other evening. l
accidentally disclosed two things In
en- offhand sort of way. l told her
some of the views | gave you at the
dance in regard to marriage aud love
and one thing and another. and then,
in complimenting you most highly in
other things, | confess | sort of poked
fun at your railroad idea"
Il thought you had" said Alan good
naturally. But go on"
well, she first read me a lecture
about bad. empty. shallow men, whose
very souls were damned by their past
careers. interfering with the pure I'm
pulses of younger men, II I'll swear
] felt like crawling in u hole and pull
ing the hole in after me. Well. got
through that in a fashion because she
didn't want me to see her real heart,
and that helped me. Then she took up
the railroad scheme. You know | had
heard that she advised her father in
all his bus. matters; but, geewhil-
ikins, | never dreamed she could give
me points, but she did-she simply did.
She looked me straight in the eye n
stared at me like a national bank eX-
aminer as she asked me to explain why
that particular road could not be built
and why it would rot be a bonanza for
the owners of the timber land. |
thought she was an easy fish at first,
and | gave her plenty of line. but she
kept psppering me with unanswerable
questions till | lay down on the bank
as weak as u rag. The first blif she
gave me was in wanting to know II
there were not many branch roads that
did not own their rolling stock. She
said she knew one in the iron belt in
Alabama that dh.n't own Il car or an
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free gift. She said if such a road We're
Quilt as you plan these two main lines
would simply fall over eaeh other TO
SEND out cars 10 be loaded for ship
ment at competitive rates. BY George,
il was a cCrker. | found out the mex
day that she was right. and that doing
away with the rolling stock. shops and
so forth would cut down the cost of
your road more than half"
That's a fact" exclaimed Alan,
and | had not thought of it,"
she's a stronger woman than I ever
imagined said Miller. by George,
if she were not on your string. I'd
mal.. a dead set for her. a wife like
that would make a mar complete.
She's in love with you or thinks she
is. but she hasn't that will-o-the-wisp
glamour. She's business from her toes
10 her finer tips. Pv Gnorro. ! he
Tevn y makes a business of her love
affair. She seems to think she'll settle
1t by a sum in algebra. But TO get
back TO the railroad, for I've got lots
to tell you. What do you reckon /
found that day? You couldn't guess in
a thousand years. 1t was a prelimi-
nary survey of a railroad once planned
from barley right through your ia
theirs purchase to Morganton, n. c.
1t was made just before the war by
old Colonel Wade, who, in his day, was
one of the most noted surveyors in the
state. This end of the line was all /
cared about, and that was almost as
level as n cor along the river and
down the valley into the north end of
town. It's a bonanza, my boy! Why
that big bottle of timber land has new
er been busted is q wonder to me. II
as many Yankees had bee nosing
about here as there have beer In other
southern sections, it would have been
snatched up long ago"
I'm awfully glad to hear you. say all
this" said Alan, for 1t is the only
way out of our difficulty, and some
thing has ID be done"
lit may cost you a few years of the
hardest work you ever bucked down
to-" said Miller, land some sleepless
nights. but | really believe you have
fallen on to a better thing than any
| ever struck. | could make it whiz.
I've already lone something that will
astonish you. | happen to know slight
ly Tillman Wilson, the president of the
Southern Land and Timber company.
Their offices are in Atlanta. | knew
he was my man TO tackle. so when |
got TO Atlanta yesterday | ran upol
him just as IL it were accidental. !
invited him to lunch with me at the
Capitol City club; you know I'm a
nonresident member. You see. l knew
If | put myself in the light of a man
with something to sell. he'd hurry
away from me. but | didn't. AS a
pretext | told him | had some clients
up here who wanted to raise a coIsid-
cradle amount of money and that the
security offered was fine timber land.
You see that caught him; he was on
his own ground. | saw that he was
interested. and l doomed the property
to the skies.
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