Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-06-13

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how dirty. Thanks to pressure of cir
cumstances. I'm not an overparticular
person.. But on points I'm very
squeamish. or, in other words. l draw
the line somewhere. Unless I'm very
vastly mistaken, your plan will involve
one in downright knavery. which Is a
thing all sensible men avoid If posi-
BIC. Now. In my ignorance l fancied
the find might be turned to account
without climbing down to that"
Oh said Shelf eagerly. then you
had a scheme in your head before you
came to me?"
The other shrugged his shoulders and
lit a cigar.
Just a dim outline-nothing more.
You see the interior of the Everglades
is absolutely untouched by the White
mans weapons. 1t vas vaguely sup
posed TO be one vast lake. with GASES
or slime and mangroves. The lake was
reported as too shallow for boats n
Astounding with fevers, agues and mos
quitoes. Consequently it remained UNI
explored. and on the end of the Florida
peninsula today no white man, barring
myself n one or two others, has ever
got farther h Il five or eight miles in
from the coast.
Now. as I've told you l was lucky
enough to hit upon a fine deep ship
rhahhei going j" IS far as the center
line. and l don't know how far behind
inside. There is a good fertile country.
II hea!lhy climate and the best game
preserve on this earth. For the first
corners that interior will be just a
sports!nan's paradise.
My idea is twowise. First sell the
cream off the sport. Some men will
give anything for shooting. and in this
case there will also be the glamour Of
:'elhs pioneers. Each one will start de-
terlnlned to write a book OF his opin-
IONS and doings when he gets back. BY
chartering a steamer and treating them
well on board they would have sport
ing de luxe. One ought to get five and
twenty chaps at 500 guineas apiece.
That gives the first crop. For the
second buy up IN enormous tract of
the land. which can be got for half |
h~othing-say. 10 or Is cents am acre
boom it and resell it in lots to Jug
sinses. They'll fancy they'll grow
oranges, as all Englishmen do who try
Florida. Perhaps they may grow EN-.
who knows. ii they keep off whisky and
put IN work? But that won't be the
promoters concern. They don't adver-
Use that NE fand WIFI odu Oranges.
They only guarantee that it would IL
IT was given Il chance, and that's all
correct.
Perhaps this is rough on the Jug
slnses, but as they crowd the British
isianis IN o and are always on
tne lookout for some one to shear them. ,
don't see why an Everglades
shouldn't have their fieeces as we'll as
1lybody else. They're mostly MASTERS
and wouldn't do any good wher
and it's a patriotic deed to cart them
over our boundary ditch away from
local mischief. Besides even If the
worst comes to the worst and the
orange industry of Florida still refuses
TO make Roadway, the would-be grow
ers needn't starve. Nor need they even
do what thyll probably hate more, and
that's work. Ihere's always sweet po-
tatoes and mullet and tobacco to be
got, and if that diet doesn't cloy. a
man can have it there for mighty little
eXertion.
Come, now. That's the
OF the plan. What do you think of it,"
Much capital would be needed"
Cambel shrugged his shoulders.
Some. naturally. or shouldn't have
come to you. II I'd seen any way to
pouching all the plumber single handed.
you may bet your little life. Mr.. Theo-
dore Shelf. l shouldn't have invited
you into partnership"
Returns. too. would be very slow"
Not necessarily. Float the company
and then turn 1t over to another COM
pany for cash down."
Moreover. when the-er-the young
men you spoke about found that the
orange groves did not produce at once
In paying quantities.. they would write
home, and their parents would de.
nounce me in the papers as a swim.
dler."
mo. not you. the other
one you sold it to. But then apologists
would arise to show that the Jugginses
don't shy at the word. sir-were lazy
and ignorant, and also that they abb
sorbed the corn whisky Of the country
In excessive quantities. And then that
company could smile smugly and pose
as a misunderstood benefactor. So its
profits wouldn't be smirched in the
least. Grasp nat
Yes. yes, l dare say you have work.
ed 1t all out to yourself and thought
out n details SO many times that the
whole scheme seems entirely plausible,
But. looking at 1t from the view of q
business man, I cannot say hi it APP
pears to be an enterprise l should care
much beyond the scope Of my general
operations that Observation-Disclosures
you understand 1 hesitate"
YES" said Patrick Cambel, quietly.
you hesitate because you've got some-
thing ten times more profitable up your
Sleeve"
Shelf started and shivered slightly.
You may as we'll be candid and open
with me-" Cambel continued, land tell
me what you are driving at. II It
suits me. I'll say so. n il it doesn't
III let you know with surprising
AND. again. IL we don't
trade. you may rely on me not tc
gossip abou what you suggest. I'm
not he stone throwing variety of ami
NAL. You see. I live in q sort OF semi.
green u myself
There was a minutes pause, during
which Theodore Shelf shifted about as
though his chair was uneven rock be-
meath him. Then he jerke6 out his
tale sentence by sentence, squirting
sideways at his companion between
each period.
You know. I'm a .hinou.a.