The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-06

| line. and don't know how far benfnt
Inside. There is good fertile country
a healthy climate and the best game
| preserve on this earth. For the FRS
comers that interior will be just 3
| sportsman's paradise.
MY idea Is twowise First sell tn,
cream or the sport. Some men viii
| give anything for shooting, and in thii
| case there will also be the glamour o.
being pioneers. Each one will start de
| termined to write book OF his opin
ions and doings when he gets back. Bl
| chartering steamer and treating then
we'll on board they would have sport
ing de luxe. One ought to get five and
twenty chaps at 800 guineas apiece.
That gives the first crop. For TIL,
second buy UP an enormous tract ol
the land. which can be got for hab
nothing--say, 10 or 15 cents an acre.
boom it and resell 1t in lots to Jug
ginses. They'll fancy they'll grow
oranges. as all Englishmen do who trl
Florida. Perhaps they may grow EN-
who knows, II they keep off whisky and
put In work? But that won't be tn,
promoters concern. They don't adver
tise that the land will produce oranges
They only guarantee that It would
correct
Perhaps this is rough on the Jug
ginses, but as they crowd the Britisi
Islands In droves, and are always Oh
the lookout for some one to shear them
don't see why an Everglades company
shouldn't have their fleeces as well a.
anybody else. They're mostly waster
and wouldn't do any good anywhere
and it's patriotic deed to cart then
over our boundary ditch away from
local mischief. Besides even IL thS
worst comes to the worst and the
orange industry of Florida still refuses
to make headway, the wouId-be grow
ers needn't starye. Nor need they even
do what thy'll probably hate more, and
that's work. There's always sweet po-
tatoes and mullet and tobacco to be
got, and IL that diet doesn't cloy, a
man can have 1t there for mighty little
exertion. r.. .l.E 81
Come. now. That's the pemmican
OF the plan. What do you think OF II?
Much capital would be needed"
Cambel shrugged his shoulders.
Some, naturally, or / shouldn't have
come to you. If I'd seen any way to
pouching all the plunder 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 Iapers as a swim.
5ler." ...O g..
mo, not you, the other company--the
nFNn cold 10
would arise to show that the Jugginses
don't shy at the word, sir--were lazy
and ignorant, and also that they alb
sorbed the corn whisky of the country
In excessive quantities. And then that
company could smile smugly and pose
as misunderstood benefactor So its
profits wouldn't be smirched in the
least. Grasp that?" EE.
Yes, yes, dare say you have work.
ed 1t all out to yourself and thought
out the details so many times that the
whole scheme seems entirely plausible.
But, looking at 1t from the view of a
business man, / cannot say that 1t ap-
pears to be an enterprise 1 should care
to embark in. You see, 1t is so very
much beyond the scope OF my general
operations that I-er-hesitate-er-
you understand hesitate" ...
Yes" said Patrick Cambel, quietly,
you hesitate because you've got some
thing ten times more profitable up youI
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 II
suits me. I'll say so, and If It doesn't
I'll let you know with surprising
promptness. And, again, if we don't
trade, you may rely on me not tC
gossip about what you suggest. I'm
not the stone throwing variety of ami
NAL. You see, live in sort OF semi
green house myself"
There was minutes pause, durina
which Theodore Shelf shifted about as
though his chair was uneven rock be-
meath him. Then he jerked out his
tale sentence by sentence, squirting
sideways at his companion between
each period.
''You know, Pm a shipowner in o
large way of business?"
Cambel nodded.
Ships are occasionally lost at sea-
steamers, even new steamers straight
off tho builders slip and well found in
every particular"
$50 I've read in the newspapers"
And every shipowner insures his
vessels to the full of their value"
Except when he has a forebodinR
that they will come to grief on a voy-
age. Then, so rumor says, he usually
has the forethought to over-insure."
Mr.. Theodore Shelf passed a hand
kerchief over mis- forehead and started
what was apparently q new topic,
"There is a silver crisis on just now
In the United States, and by this morn
ing's paper the dollar is down to 60
cents. American gold is not to be had,
English gold is always worth it's face
value. What more natural financial
operation could there be than to shin
out sovereigns and profit by the dis.
crepancy" .0...a
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