The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
Fl Real Estate Uenture.

RtS VSuVV~n ~
you some of the best thoroughbred
stock in the world-stock that has won
blue medals wherever exhibited. To
illustrate, will introduce little of
my personal experience, and show you
how your investment will yield returns
which will undoubtedly marvelously
exceed your fondest expectations-wili
show you how, at one stroke. you can
increase your fortune and enable you
to realize those laudable aims which a
young man of your age usually has up
permost in mind. 1t was in the haley
on days of '8S, in the dreamy years Of
youth, when I adjusted my mental
clockwork and began to think myself
blessed with the touch of Midas. Ev-
cry investment yielded handsome divi-
dends. [ owned farms all the way
from Topeka to Wichita. Special
trains were daily steaming into Kansas
loaded with prospective land buyers
and home seekers. My agents were
certainly busy, but you are intent on
learning the key to success, SO 1 will
come to the point. My first step was
to establish headq quarters, and look up
county records. [ obtained list of
those whose farms were heavily mort
gagged, and another list of those persons
who were just dying to return to some
quiet community back East. Then l
purchased their land, supposedly, and
began operations. While agents were
hurrying here and there in Eastern
states, rounding up herds of prosper
Gus farmers, such as we're needed to
develop the agricultural resources Of
this state-while printing presses were
humming night and day, getting out
pamphlets-while attorneys were ad-
justing mortgages, and preparing blank
J deeds, so no valuable time should be
J lost when the SPOON" was On-I say,
J while all this, and many Incidental
matters, were being attended to, was
securing few car loads of samples OF
homegrown products to be exhibited
to land seekers. From Colorado
i brought alfalfa, from California l pro
: cured an assortment of fruits, from
;. Illinois and Iowa obtained the golden
e cared corn, Incompatible oats, from
other points l gathered nearly every
S product of the soil that grows. Wha
r did do with these products? showed
J, them to the prospective purchasers, ant
f convinced many of them that these ex
/, hibits were grown in home soil.
9 "When the several coaches, fillet
e with land seekers, slowed down a
n Wichita, was waiting to welcome then
t. tc this glowing, pushing, progressing
g and glorious state. Bundling them in
to cabs hurried them to the Palac
l. Hotel, where everyone was busting a
e become people in such thriving state
70 where even the humblest employee wa
y affability itself, ready to run errand
IS and, in few words, disseminating tn
l impression that the land seekers ha
Q come to veritable paradise, wher
e condescension was the rule, rathe
4 than the exception. AS soon as the
al had been corralled in the large roor
ii where the homegrown products wer
r arranged, 1 had them sample the eide
q made from Kansas grown apples, tn
e. sparkling wine made from the lusciou
e. Kansas grapes; then, providing eac
s. man with button-hole posy with tn
power of the tabled lotus, announce
N that the uoonday meal was ready, an
G. we all descended to the spacious dining
lie room. l will not mention the bill-o
in fare-suffice it to say that such one
10 are rare.
re "sThe effect was beyond my fonde'
e. anticipations. AS we visited the farm
for sale, those land seekers were so b.
II! side themselves with joy that the
~ were unable to distinguish sand hill
al from rolling prairie, incapable of tel
ing the sun-baked soil from rich, blac
v; loan, and sold several farms by sta
ok ing that piles of rocks were merir
sheep, which would become the pro
erty of whoever bought the farm.
let them drink freely from wells,
which loads of ice had previously bee
u dumped, and while they commented {
US the cool water, simply inhaled Il
k. purer, salubrious atmosphere. Tn
w program was the order of the day u