Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-04-05

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sure have the Willies."
She overlooked the latter statement;
1t conveyed no special significance at
the time. But his first statement
opened up possibilities such as of late
she had sincerely hoped would come
to pass, and she was all interest.
Promote a mining company she
repeated. "That sounds extremely
businesslike. Observation-Disclosures"
Nowhere I'm Granville" he re-
piled. you see" he continued, warm
ing up a bit TO the subject, when l
was prospecting that creek where we
made the cleanup last summer, l
ran across a well-defined quartz lead.
l packed out a few samples in my
pockets, and l happened to show them
as well as one or two Of the mug
gets to some of these fellows at the
Grub Il while back. Lorimer took u
piece of the quartz and had it assayed.
IL looms up as something pretty big.
So he and Brooks and a couple of
other fellows want me to go ahead
and organize and locate a group of
claims in there. Twenty or thirty
thousand dollars capital might make
'em all rich. OF course, the placer
end of it will be the big thing while
the lode is being developed. Getting
the start is easy. These fellows I've
talked to are dead anxious to get in
"But"-her knowledge of business
methods suggested a difficulty-'you
can't sell stock in a business hat has
no real foundation-yet. Don't you
have to locate those claims irst?"
wise old head you have the idea,
all right" He smiled. But this is
not a stOck-jobbing proposition. 1
wouldn't be in on it if it were, believe
me. It's to be a corporation, where
not to exceed six men will own all the
stock that's issued. And SO far as
the claims are concerned, I've got
Whitley Lewis located in Fort George.
and I've been burning the wires and
spending a bundle of real money get
ting him g~rub-staked. He has got four
men besides himself all ready to hit
the trail as soon as | give the word"
"You won't have to go?" she put in
quickly.
mo-" he murmured. at isn't neces-
sary, at this particular stage of the
game. But 1 wouldn't mind popping
a whip over a good string of dogs.
just the same
"B-r-r-r" she shivered involuntar-
lily. -Four hundred miles across that
deep snow, through that steady, flesh
soaring cold. l don't envy them the
Journey"
She came over and stood by him,
playfuily rumpling his brown hair with
her fingers.
"Tm glad you've found something
to loose that pent-up energy of yours
ON, Billy-boy," she said. you'll make
a success of 1t, / know. l don't see
why you shouldn't make a success of
any kind of business. But 1 didn't
think you'd ever tackle business. You
have such peculiar views about bust
ness and business practice"
II despise the ordinary business
ethic," he returned sharply. But l
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And that is my plan. If we make
money it won't be filched by a com
pick process from the other fellows
pockets il won't be wealth created by
shearing lambs in the market, by
sweatshOp labor, or adulterated food,
or exorbitant rental of filthy dealing
with. I'm not overly anxious to get
into it with them. But it promises
action of some sOrt-and l have to
do something till spring"
In the spring! That brief phrase
set Hazel TO sober thinking. With
April or May Bill would spread his
wings for the North. There would be
no more staying him than the flight
of the wild goose to the reedy nesting
grounds could be stayed. Well, a sum
mer in the North would not be so bad
she reflected. But she hated to think
of the isolation. 1T grieved her tC
contemplate exchanging her beautiful
ly furnished apartment for a log cabir
in the woods.
Still she had hopes. If he plunged
into business associations with Jim
mic Brooks and Paul LOrimer and 9th
ers Of that group, there was no telling
what might happen. His interests
might become permanently identified
with Granville.
Bill informed her from time to tint
as to the progress of his venture. TIL,
company was duly Incorporated, will
IN anfhnrfznH annfto1 &c aDA hrndros
thousand dollars. five thousand dollars
worth of stock being taken out by eacl
on a cash basis-the remaining sew
enty-five thousand lying in the com
pany treasury, to be held or sold TO
development purposes as the five saw
fit when work began to show wha
the claims were capable of producing
In early March came a Telegram
from Whitley Lewis saying that h
had staked the claims, both placer an,
lode that he was bound u by tn
Telegraph Trail to hle at Hazeltor
Bill showed her the message-wire,
from Station Six.
II wish / could have been in on it
that was some trip he said-an.
there was a trace of discomfort in hi
tone. ~ don't fancy somebody els
paving my chestnuts out Of the coal
for me. II was sure a mans job t
cross the Klappan in the dead of wiz
ter"
The filing completed, there was an
pie work in the way of getting OF
and whipsawing timber to keep tn