Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-06-08


healthy climate and the best ga le
preserve on this earth. For the first
comers that interior will be just
sportsman'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 viii also be the glamour of
being pioneers. Each one Will start de-
terinined To write 4 book of his opin-
ions and doings when he gets back. BY
chartering steamer and treating them
well on board they would have sport
ing de luxe. one ought TO get five and
twenty chaps at 500 Cuineas apiece.
That gives the first crop. For the
second buy up an enormous tract of
the land. which can be got for half
nothing say 10 or 10 cents an acre
boom it and resell il in lots to Jug
ginses They'll fancy they'll grow
oranges, as all E,nglishmen do who try
FLORIDA, Perhaps they may grow EN-.
who knows. if they keep off whisky and
put IN work? But that Won't be the
promoters concern. They don't adver-
tise that the land will produce oranges
They only guarantee that il would If
IL was given chance and that's ali
correct
Perhaps this is rough on the Jug
glnSes but AS they crowd the British
islands i'm Groyes, and are always on
the LOOKOUT for some one 90 shear them.
i don't see why an Everglades company
shouldn't have their neeces as well az
nyoody else. They're mostly wasters
and wouldn't do any good anywhere,
ann 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
20 make headWaE, the Would-be grow
cg9 ncedn t starVc Nor need they even
do what thyll probably hate more and
THAT'S work. There's always sweet po-
tatoes and nullct and tobacco to be
got, ana If that diet doesn't clOy,
man can have it there for mighty little
eNertiOa
Come, now That's the pemmican
o: the plan. What do you think of it2"
"Aluch capital would be needed
Cambe shrugged his shoulders.
Some, naturally, or | shouldn't have
come to yoa. II I'd seen any way to
puuching all the p.undor single handed.
YOU may bet your iittle life, MIR Theo-
dofe Shelf ! shouldn't have invited
you into partnership
Returns, TOO would be very slow
Not necessarily. Float the company
ana thcu turn IL over TO another COM
pJny for cash down"
Moreover. when thc-er-the young
men YOU spoke shout found that the
orange groves dia not produce at once
ln paying quantities., they would write
Eomo ard their parents would de-
nounce me in the apers as a swim
1lcr'
No. not you, the Other company the
one you sold IL 10. But then apologists
would arise TO show that the 5ugginses
don't shy AZ the word sir--were lazy
and ignorant, and also that they abb
sor5ed the corn whisky of the country
in excessive quantities. And then that
company could smile smugly and pose
as NisIndere tOod benefactor So its
profits wouldn't be smiIvhed IN the
least Grasp ,hat2'
Yes, yes, ] dare say you have work
ed il ali out TO yourself and thought
out the details SO many times that tha
whole scheme seems entirely plausible.
But looking az it nom the view of a
business man, ! cannot say that IT APP
pears 10 be an enterprise | should care
TO embark in. You see, fl is SO very
much beyond the scope of my general
operations thar -hesitatc-er--
you understand + hesitate"
Yes said Patrick Cambel, quietly,
YOU hesitate because you've got some
thing ten times more profitable up your
sleeve"
Shelf started and shiverad slightly
You may as Well be candid and open
with me- Cambel continued, and tell
ne what you are driving at If it
suits me I'll say so, and if II doesn't
III let you know with surprising
promptness And. again II we don't
trade you may rely ON me not to
gossip about what you suggest I'm
not the stone throwing variety of ami
NAL You sec / live in a sort Of semi
green house myself"
There was a minutes pause during
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, I'm a shipowner in a
large way Of business"
Cambe nodded.
ships are occasionally lost at sea-
steamers, even new steamers straight
off the builders slip and well found in
every particular
so I've read in The newspapers"
and every snipowner insures his
vessels TO the fun OF their value"
Except when ne has. foreboding
that they will come TO grief on a voy-
age. Then, 50 rumor says, he usually
has the forcthought TO over-insure"
Mr. Theodore Shelf passed a hand
| sercnief over mis- forehead and started
what was apparently new topic.
"Thera is a silver crisis on Just now
! IN the United States and by this morn
ings paper the dollar is down TO 60
cents. American gold is not to be mad.
English gold is always worth its face
value, What more natural financial
operation could shere be THAN TO shin
out sovereigns and profit by the dis,
crepancy?"
Continued Next Week.)
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