Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-07-05
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lie Is doctor by profession ana TAX
ing the profession as a whole. by and
large. he is an average good doctor;
so that by the help OF Providence and
vicinity. a reasonably large proportion
Of the patients who have come under
his hands have pulled through; and
the Doctor has satisfactorily demon
strated that he can do enough busi-
ness in this line. when he sticks 10
II long enough. TO keep himself and
his small family somewhere above 'he
decent subsistence line. But the fact
Is that the world OF actual iaboE never
did look good 10 ,he doctor. Sc he
I. headed for some indeterminate
point in Texas. where land Is cheap
and people are coming In freely and
he can '-proye up" on -something
good" and practice medicine on the
side.
The doctor is disgusted with Pa-
sbio. There arc too many grai'eFs
there. he says. The town is full OF
graite.s-feiiows who are getting rich
out OF the people-poliiieal graiiers.
and money-ioan graiters, and real es-
tate graitefs. and a lot OF other kinds
OF grai,ers. who have got :heir hands
Nu all tho public Offices and ON all
enc most valuable properties: and who
Noid mortgages on all they dom, oSn.
So he |, shaking the dust oi Pueblo
III his feet and going where the
CRATER eome'h not.
The doctor WAS once quite sue
eessfai practitioner in one Of our
largest eastern cities and made money
al Il. But the mieFobc OF land spscu-
ia,ion got into his hair: and ever
since he has been looking for some
spot OF earth that would suddenly be-
come valuable and make him rich
without labor. He Is lookin. for =
real estate ten spot that has proba-
bility Of pfovin. trump ard in an
early Jackpot and .ivin. him The
trick. So far the game has not been
runnin. his way. and about all he has
left after the last deal is \ camp wag-
on and couple OF bsonehos.
When the doctor started In the
game tho town OF Pueblo was having
It's frs, boom and the original owners
Of some Of the adobe beds around
that city were putting some good
money into suburban development.
Groups OF snowy bu; shabbily con.
strueted dwellings were being put mp
three or four miles form the centre
OF town: and tho street car franchises
were thrown at the birds in order to
get investors interested in the Pitts
burg OF tho West" The young city
had wonderful imitation. The doctor
was ono of the small fry, with only
n few thousands to invcsi-onc OF the
big shoal OF small suckers. who
couldn't hang on to the bait through
such panic as that OF %. He final
iy snapped his equity in 4 suburban
tract for bigger piece oi cheaper
stuff. several miles out. Just far
enough ou, TO need tat;.s in by
somebody so that the really INSIDE"
fellows wouldn't have to hold it out
OF the market and pay taxes on It to
keep up the price OF their truly in
side" stuff. After holding il in the
inside fellows interest for ten years,
the panic over and actual investments
in actually productive industries hav-
ing increased population and thereby
increased inside values. the doctor
snapped his twenty acres for n cou-
pie OF "insidc" lots; sold one of them
and mortgagcd the other in order TO
build house on it. Then he settled
down to the honest business OF giv-
ing the best he knew of medical lore
in exchange for consultation fec.
Since he did not have the means for
making up his own prescriptions the
margin OF profit on his medical
knowledge was not as large. as it
might have been. But it was fair.
a little way from the doctor lived
another sucker who went down in
the panic with him. But had had the
good luck to exchange his equity in
The Suburban Land Development and
Traction Trust for something "in-
side" and although his wife kept
boarders and he clerked for several
years to keep the mortgage lien from
closing in on him, he succeeded in
hanging on and coming out on top.
The doctor always felt that it might
just as well have been him as the
other fellow who staid on the I'm
on Easy street.
When the Moffat road started its
surveys up through Routt county the
doctor thought he saw one more
chance of getting something for moth
ing, and forgetting that it is only the
fellows on the "insidc" who know
where a railroad will finally run and
where town sites will be located, he
iFeM bs ,v UP ms is sIs fr in
and went into the wilds of Routt Co.
and took up claim. That claim, by
the way, had good coal mine on it,