The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-20

7 WO men sat in the back room Of
the Wei appointed offices OF the
Real Estate Loan & Trust COM
parry of st Louis one night in the iaH
Of 1872. one was young. under 80,
sIeifeer and somewhat stopped His
eyes were dark and shifting and he
wore black beard and mustache. The
other was slightly older and bore the
appearance of a prosperous business
man Save for them the offices were de-
serted. bat nevertheless they talked in
HudcrtOuc-
The plan has been tested in all its
Questionable poiuEs ana found AabsO-
lutely safe said the Younger man. the
owner of the offices. and AT all times the
Reader in the dialogue. The only weak
point remaining is the limited market
we now have in the sale of these lands.
This market must be extended, and the
east is the place the extension must be
made. 1t is my Intention TO establish
English and European agencies and TO
place safe agents I'm some Of the eastern
centers of population The opportunity
l. the greatest that viii ever come 10
You"
There was no dissent from this state
lnent on the part of the other. His
nanner suggested an evident desire to
tearn more of the plan under discus
sion. The point in the negotiations be-
z
any danger in freedom of speech had
already been passed. There was no eX-
addition on either side of troublesome
aualms over the moral phase of the
business in hand. and the conversation
turned on nothing but the prospects Of
carrying out the scheme with safety
and profit.
: You must bear in mind" said the
Waster spirit of the conference. that
ths is nothing new. A smart chap con-
teived the possibili of the plan when
BE was with General Prices raiding
army in southwest Missouri during the
war. This chap was one that hap
pened TO be turned loose i'm the land Of
ice at IrOntOn and grabbed 300 patents
cath To- 500 acres of land. He would
probably have taken more. but that
was all he could carry. He planted
chem at the time and resurrected them
after the warm 1868. While he had
y general idea of their value he mad lit
tie ingenuity in realizing on them.
Finally he met a. friend with
quicker brain, aud this friend suggested
securing the services of a notary to
take the ackuOW Iedgments necessary
TO securing land under the patents.
they came TO st. Louis and found the
man theN WanCed--a notary who liked
his liquor a bit too well 10 ask too
many questions. The deeds based on
Fhe patents were made and good bust
ness was done i'm the sale of the lands
nutiI the stock OF patents ran out-jThis
bair discontinued operations, bat they
opened great field 1 saw that thou
sands of these patents were available
never mind hoN-and am ready 70 carry
ON business on q big scale"
But how can deed be made in 1872
or later so that fl viii look like IL was
made a dozen years before, when the
patents were issued?" cautiously asked
, Take my word for it. the deeds
issued from these patents are as good
as wheat for commercial purposes L
have a process that gives them "A SEM
biance Of age that no one has ever
questioned. In short, it's a market we
9vant-,nothing else"
Might not the signatures to these
deeds be construed as forgeries?'
2 Possibly, although no one has ques-
FiOued them 50 far But in order TO
prevent any complication from that
source we can provide for the signing
r3f the documents IN another state.
They can't force Witnesses across the
state line"
Numerous other objections. designed
to test the security of the scheme
rather. then to discourage the execution
-of III. We're offered by the visitor.
Zach was met with Il comprehensive
and plausible answer. indicating that
an all its details the plot had been
Subjected to the scrutiny of a bright
mind trained to the consideration of
1egal techuicalities. Before the men
lett the once lhey hao entered INTO
hard and fast agreement to carry out
The plan proposed by the Missourian-
r Robert l.. Lindsay. the president of
The Real Estate, Loan and Trust COM
pany of st. Louis, and the leader of
.the compensation in his private office
con the night in question, was a man of
increasing prominence in his state. He
was the son Of James Lindsay, who
had located in St Louis in 1884.
3 Lindsay Sr. became the editor of the
first free soiP' paper published I'm
Missouri, and was later sent to the leg
islature as a Benton Democrat" Dur
ing the early days of the war while
Ulysses 5. Grant ;Vas recruiting the regi-
ment at the head of which he made
his first leaps toward military great
ness he went TO IRON Comfy. Missouri