The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-01-12

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time your business?" smiled Carroll.
by the time Bobby's grown up this
business will all be closed out" re-
piled Orde seriously.
Three years after the conversation
last mentioned, which would have
made Bobby just eight, Orde came
home on a summer evening, his face
alight with satisfaction.
He believed he had found the oppor-
tunity, twenty years distant, for which
he had been looking so long.
Orde and his wife sat together on
the top step. He slipped his arm about
her. They breathed deep of the happi-
ness that filled their lives. Two shad-
owy figures defined themselves APP
4 preaching up the concrete walk.
Il Hello called Orde.
4 Hello" voice responded.
Taylor and Clara" said Orde to
Carroll, with satisfaction, ''just the
man ] wanted to see" The lawyer
and his wife mounted the steps.
il Clara Taylor stopped short and con-
sidered Orde for moment.
Let us away" she said seriously to
| Carroll. My prophetic soul tells me
~; are going to talk business. and If
az. more business is talked in my
presence stall expire. Come, Car
roll; let's wander down the street and
see Nina Heinzman."
The two sauntered away.
"Look here. Taylor" broke in Orde
abruptly; you told me the other day
you had fifteen or twenty thousand you
wanted to place somewhere"
Yes replied Taylor.
"Well, l believe have Just the prop.
osition."
"What is it?r
california pine" replied Orde.
California pine" repeated Taylor
"Californias long way off, and there
Is no market, is there?'
Its cheap" replied Orde succinct.
~. Il don't say it will be good for
immediate returns, but in twenty OF
thirty years it ought to pay big on q
small investment made now"
Taylor laughed.
Laugh all you please" rejoined
Orde, 'but tell you Michigan and
Wisconsin pine is doomed. Twenty o,
thirty years from now there won't be
: any white pine for sale"
Nonsense" objected Taylor. "You'r,
talking wild"
"All right" said Orde quietly. "well
what do you think of Indiana as {
good field for timber investmentw
"Indiana" cried Taylor. amazed
"Why, there's no timber there: it's /.
prairie.'
"There used to be. And all tn,
southern Michigan farm belt was tim
bered, and around here. We have GU
stumps to show for it, but there are n,
evidences at all farther south. Yo,
take your map and see how much are
. has been cut already That'll one
your eyes. And, remember, all that ha
been done by crude methods. The de
mand increases as the country grow
and methods improve 1t would no
surprise me If some day thirt, or fort,
millions would constitute an varap
cut"
"Why is 1t that no one
> Because" Orde cut him short 9Th
big things are for the fellow who ca,
, see far enough ahead"
) what kind of a proposition hav
you?" asked Taylor after a pause
81 can get 10000 acres at an averap
price of SO an acre." replied Ord,
"about 4OO,OOOOOO feet in timer
"That's about 20 cents tLoosg nd -
Orde nodded.
"And of course you couldns acrat
for twenty or thirty years. am IRE
{ your interest on your money anQ axe
' and the risk Of fire and
J "Of course" agreed Orde inpatient
ly. "but you're getting your stuupa Q
:. for 20 cents, and in thirty years
should be worth a dollar and naf
At the present time sugar pine soc
! as Orde described would cost ST.
to 81.
Taylor relapsed into thought.
"Look here, Orde," he broke Q,
finally. "how old are you?"
"Thirty-eight. Why?"
How much timber have you
MichiganY
About 100000 that we've pick,