The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-01


"a lot more money saved from Wild
cat investments and right now ia be
putting that fpare cash into scientific
experiments designed 10 prove 10 tho
world that perfectly good paper pulp
can be manufactured from the red
wood and Douglas f.r waste that goes
into the slabNrc az my aawmills,
THAT might be wasting money, too.
but Il would be wasting Il ia a good
cause. ia be investing II In the hope
OF doing something constructive, not
iu frenzy OF absolute certainty that
I was going 90 make more money
than Henry Ford and Andrew Mel.
lon combined. and all In a couple Of
years
aCus my dear boy, you so slow
VI and easy IN this mining game
All real miners do, lie cautious. Al
real miners are. Take. FOR Instance.
the case o. old PRnamlnt Bill. a pros.
pector friend Of mine. Every spring,
for 10 years, panamint Bill would
write me a letter. asking FOR a grub
stake OF $3.50 I always sent Il 10
him, not because l wanted the half
interest IN tho rich mine Bill wnA
going 10 discover that year but be-
cause be needed the money and the
world had sort Of lost interest in
him and his credit was trine
spoiled
Well one bright day BIN really
did discover a mine lie did tho a..
Hesnmrut work on u for three years
during the summer and wcpt on my
breast al winter for three years un.
ul / consented to scn> mining en-.
Rincer up 10 look down Bills pros.
poet hole.
Wen. We got a real mine on, Of Il
and l don, mind telling you / never
made az fine an investment in all my
life ms I did in Panhmint BIZ How.
ever. knowing that blind pig viii
sometimes find an acorn. ! parked
my mining luck then md there and
quit mining Tor keeps Panamint
BIN didn't
'Hc had that million dollars he'd
grown old hunting for, 70 ne got him.
self n lot Of store clothes and had the
cactus trimmed out Of his whiskera
and came down 10 san Francisco to
live at the best hotel and be real
folks.
"well. Bill wasn't sitting
around the hotel lobby very long
before he met another miner
specially. gold; sex, female. She
was the Queen Of Peaches and
she fell In love with Bill
Finally, she told him 10 and said
she'd cry her eyes out II he didn't
marry her. 80 the old fool obliged and
they had a honeymoon and Bill was
as n gopher in n wet meadow In a
dry year But finally he couldn't re.
sist tho lady'a pleadinEs 20 make n
definite settlement on her. She re.
minded Bin that he was no longer
young and she got n jack leg doctor
10 tell him he had heart disease and
might pop Off at any moment
"she reminded Bill OF the high
federal and state inheritance taxes
and suggested that he make over 10
her as a gift his stock in the Wild
Inckass Mining company, which was
the seat OF all OF his revenue.
HkTow, old Bill was honest. but
IN he'd been in the mining game
long enough to know that lot OF
folks arc not, and he'd learned a
trick or two about mining and mining
INVESTMENTS. In a word. all Bill knew
was mining. but he did know that,
II he had known anything about
women he would never have hooked
up with that youthful Eold.digger
She sounded real enough to Bin, but
still he was too good n gambler not
to have an acc coppercd. so he quietly
/ incorporated the wild Jackass Min
! ing corporation and handed her 50
per cent OF the stock in her name
| Tho slight difference In the word
ing OF the thing quite escaped the
lady. She didn't investigate because
she was certain Bill was too simpl,
and honest to question her motives
she hung on to Bill until the ncNt
quarterly divident check OF the wild
Jackass Mining company came TO hei
direct. and then she figured Il was
time to ditch Bill and 20 with 9
younger and hnnsomcr man. So sh,
wrote him n tender note, saying sh
no longer loved him Alas. II was tn
old case OF May and December. Sh
was leaving him and wished him al
the happiness she could not give him
Bib was glad 10 get rid Of her, bu
he didn't neglect TO put gumsho,
men on her trail and get the good
on her so she couldn't claim alimonl
when he sued her for divorce, which
he did and got It u. D. Q. on thu
strength Of her note 10 him.
old Bill always used TO say tina
there's nothing like knowing YOU
own game. knowing 1t well and play
ing II for ar it's worth, and that
my advice to you, Augustus, Picl
UP your blue prints and engineer
report and go back to your office
Upon arrival there charge 10 prof
and loss all that you have spent L
date on mining and Their start look
ing for business for the West Coas
Trading company.
scat"