The Coconino sun., 1927-02-18
city and perspicatcity, we make an ex-
ception.
RATSKI & COMPANY
Promoters & Organizers
Hyde Park, Illinois,
Feb. 12, 1927.

I1yQG IdIk, lllldOAS,
Feb. IL, 1927.
Dear Sir:
Hearing that you are always open
| for an investment in good live busi-
ness proposition, we take the liberty
of presenting to you what seems to
US to be most excellent offering, in
which, it is hoped, you will take a
lively interest.
We propose to organize a corpora
| tion to operate a large cat ranch near
Denver, where land can be purchased
cheap for that purpose.
To start with, we will collect one
thousand cats. Each cat will average
| twelve kittens a year. The skins will
sell for from ten cents for the white
ones to seventy-five cents for the
pure black. We will have about
| twelve million skins to sell at an aver
age of thirty cents apiece, making our
revenue about $4,000 per day, gross
A man can skin fifty cats day; he
will charge $500 day for his labor;
| it viii take about one hundred men to
operate the ranch; therefore, the
profit will be about $4,000 day.
We will feed the cats on rats, and
will start a rat ranch adjoining the
cat ranch. The rats will multiply four
| times as fast as the cats, and if we
start with one hundred thousand rats
we will have four rats day for each
cat, which is plenty.
We will feed the cats on rats, and
/ in turn will feed the rats on the
| stripped carcasses of the cats, thus
giving each rat one-fourth of cat.
| 1t will be seen by these figures that
the business will be automatic and
self-sustaining. The cats will eat the
rats, the rats will eat the cats, and
we will get the skins.
We propose to capitalize at one
hundred thousand dollars common
and one million dollars preferred
stock, giving ten shares of preferred
stock gratis with each share of COM
mon stock bought at par. We can
| sell all the stock and more right here
| in Chicago, and we offer to let you in
| only because we think that it would
! be selfish to keep all of such a good
thing in one city. But you best wire
us what you want to do about it, for
our friends are pressing US hard for
all the stock
Please advise us the amount Of
stock you wish to subscribe for to-
ward the formation of corporation
for the exploitation of our idea.
Yours very truly,
RATSKI & COMPANY.
By-Product:
Have made contract with the Fid-
dlers' Union to take all the cat gut.
If they ever became mixed up!
Onyx hosiery Best in the long
run"
Otis Good to the last
Drop"
Klaxon- Ellis masters voice"
Ford-"Td walk a mile for a
Camel
Fatima-sT'se in town, honey"
"Ivory soap--.eThere's reason
Listerine-"W a whale of diff
ference just few cents makes"
One Of his colored friends bor-
rowed $25 from Jim BiIlingslea and
gave him his note for the amount.
Several months passed and the note
became long past due. One day jim
met the man. He stopped him. He
said: "Look heah, man. when you-all
goin' ter pay dat note? ?"
<1h Gil y S0S lAO AlAOAiSy AV03 We4S
| the reply, but Ah'm goin' ter pay it
soon's All kim"
aYo' sayin' dat dom git me no
money! Jim told him. EFF yo' dom
pay dat money right heah an now, yo'
know what Ah'm goin' ter do? Ah'm
goin' ter burn yer OF note; den whar'll
yo' be at 2"
'sYas, yo' will; Vas, yo' will" the
other shouted. "Jes' yo' burn dat note
OBJ mine, an Ah'll pop lawsuit onto
yo'lD
County Attorney Frank Gold was
| knocked down by an automobile the
other day and before he could get up
he saw big truck coming right on to
him. "That reminds me" he said, Il
was to take home some pancake
flour"
Bueko Sisk, over on the coast, got
into taxi and called out, "H-h-home,
J-j-james.',
.Where you git that home, James,
stuff" the driver demanded, angrily.
"This is a taxi"
Bucko humbly replied: "Pp-par-
By Osborne
Unisai