The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-07-30

ing, Through this publicity the Won
tlerful Kimbely mine became house
hold word overnight, and the aston
ished Brother Ralph. who had been
waging a desperately uneven battle
for subscribers in the effete east. sud
denly wired frantically to his brothers
to increase thei~ capitalization. as he
was running out of stock. Immediate
ly after sending this telegram he plac-
ed his derby between his ears and fol-
lowed the cleavage Of his nose in the
haunt most infested by Blackie Daw.
The Kimbely mine is just doubling
its capitalization" he proudly twanged.
Good work. approved Blackie.
There's no reason why you shouldn't
keep right on printing the stock as
long as they'll buy it,
They'll buy it as long as they have
such proof as we have of fivefold
profit" enthused the eastern Dougal-
hobber Its worth So now. Have
you seen in the papers how Dougal-
vile was built overnight?"
Il invented that trick myself" stated
Blacke complacently It's the great
est mine selling scheme on earth, and
| lost a fortune by not patenting it"
Brother Ralph was working no
harder than they We're in Dougalville,
however Laborers 1ocked there in
shoals and We're either put into the
mines or chased down the track to the
jeers of the rapidly growing populace.
Wallingford, for the time being. did
nothing but sell houses-for cash when
he could, on instruments when he must.
For $7OO he could sell house and lot
that cost him $50 and share of stock
that had cost him $50. He obtained
copies of the charter, constitution and
| bylaws Of the Kimhely Mine com
pany, and every time he read them he
! froWned over just one puzzling prob
lem; then he went out and mingled
anew with his tenantry. for every
householder would be voter in the
approaching stockholders meeting. He
got a grocer, butcher baker and
, other enterprising merchants to buy
bungalows and open shops; lawye,
and four doctors-allopath, homeopath
, osteopath and horse-cast their lots
with him. and carpenters. blicklayers
| and stonemasons fairly swarmed to the
place
Even in the early days, before the in
rush began, Wallingford occupied him
self very fully by spending as much
, time as possible in and about the mine
although nearly always under the
watchful eye Of one Of the Dougalbob
bers. He noted one very peculiar thing
no chemist was employed, and no
body interested seemed at all curiou.
regarding the quality Of the ore Whe1
he wanted to take some of it away t,
show prospective citizens, however
they evinced sudden jealous regar,
for it and positively refused to let hin
have any. He obtained some, though
through the efforts of Toad JessoC
1t looked like any other iron ore so ia
as Wallingford could see, but he wa
very curious about it.
When the influx began Wallingfort
became the patriarch of the town, it
founder and father, its chief benefac
tor and adviser, and in the first tw
weeks Dougalville would have electe,
him unanimously to be president O
the United States. At the end Of tw
weeks, however, Big Bill Slamme
came to town, with one wife, six chi
dren, three dogs and 81, and sought OF
portunities for investment. Big Bi
busying himself on the investmen
proposition, Mrs. Slammed, woma
AS faded and decrepit as Big Bill wa
flamboyant and hearty, came to Wa
lingford and obtained house on shoe
| defenselessness. Big Bill, havin
| found the only easily obtainable forl
! Of investment in the town to be viii
| Ky, invested his 81 in that commodit
| for the use and benefit of himself an
\ various sundry kindred spirits Shor
ly upon the heels of this he discovere
Wallingford and Immediately made
speech.
| He was from Cinderburg, Big Bi
was, and he knew this man Wallin
ford of old. He was a common graf
er, this j. Rufus person, one who ro
bed widows and orphans and hone
laboring men like him out of the
hard earned money. In Cinderbul
/ W1allipofcr1 boH oruapiyo1 oopoor