Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-06-07

I line, and I don't know how far benint
inside. There is a good fertile country
a healthy climate and the best game
! preserve on this earth. For the frs
| Corners that interior will be just :
sportsman's paradise.
MY idea is twowise. First sell tn,
| cream off the sport. Some men vii
give anything for shooting, and IN thi;
case there will also be the glamour o
being pioneers. Each one will start de
termined to write a book of his opin
ions and doings when he gets back. Il!
chartering a steamer n treating then
well on board they would have sport
ing de luxe. One ought TO get five ant
twenty chaps at 500 g~uineas apiece.
THAT gives the first crop. For tn,
second buy up an enormous tract o.
the land, which can be got for hal
nottnng-say. 10 or 10 cents an acre
boon it n resell 1t in lots to jug
ginses. They'll fancy they'll grow
oranges, as all Englishmen do who tr!
Florida. Perhaps they may grow en-
who knows, If they keep off whisky ant
put IN work? But that won't be The
promoters concern. They don't adver
tise that the and viii produce oranges
They only guarantee that ii would /
1t was given a chance, and that's al
correct.
Perhaps this is rough on the jug
glnSes, but as they crowd the British
islands in droves, and are always Oh
the lookout for some one to shear them
| don't see why an Everglades companj
shouldn't have their feeces as well al
anybody else. They're mostly waster
and wouldn't do any good anywhere
and it's a patriotic deed to cart then
over our boundary ditch away from
lnI4l EAf1nhfAF IHA-ElA.
worst comes to the worst and the
orange industry Of Florida still refuses
to make Roadway, the would-be grow
ers needn't Starye. Nor need they even
do what thyll probably hate more, and
that's work. There's always sweet pO-
tatoes and mullet and tobacco 10 be
got, and if that diet doesn't cloy. a
man can have it there for mighty little
eXertiOn.
Come, now. That's the pemmican
of the plan. What do you think of to"
Much capital would be. needed
Cambel shrugged his shoulders.
Some, naturally, or I shouldn't have
come to you, If 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 it over to another COM
pany for cash down"
Moreover, when the-er-the young
men you spoke about found that the
Grange groves did not produce at once
in paying quantities, they would write
home, and their parents would de-
nounce me in the rapers as q win
5ler."
mo. not you, the other company-the
one you sold it to. But then apologists
would arise to show that the J~ugginses
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 tina
company could smile smugly and pose
as q misunderstood benefaCtOr. SO it's
profits wouldn't be smirched in the
least. Grasp that"
Yes, yes, l dare say you have work.
ed 1T all out to yourself and thought
out the details so many times that che
whole scheme seems entirely plausible.
But, looking at it from the view of a
business man, l cannot say hat it APP
pears to be an enterprise 1 should care
to embark in. You see. it is so very
much beyond the cop Of my general
operations that I-er-hesitate-er-
you understand l 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 well be candid and open
with me-" Cambel continued, and tell
me what you are driving at. If il
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 tG
gossip about what you suggest. Tn
not the stone throwing variety Of ami
NAL. o see, | 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
zach period.
You know, Pm a shipowner IN a
large way of business?"
Cambel nodded.
Ships are occasionally lost at sea-
steamers, even new steamers straight
off the 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 q f~oreboding
that they will come to grief on a voy-
age. Then, so rumor saws, he usually
bas the forethought to oyer-insure"
Mr.. Theodore Shelf passed a hand
kercnief over mis- forehead and started
what was apparently Il new topic,
Their is a silver crisis IN just now
in the United States, and by this morn
ing's paper the dollar Is down to Sc
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 10 shin
out soyercigns and profit by the dis.
crepancy?"
Continued Next Week.