No matter how much we improve the land, or how much it increases in value, they have got to stick by their agreement on the basis of two-fifty per acre.

Here's one case where the P.and S.W.
DON'T get everything in sight." Genslinger frowned, perplexed.
"I AM new in the country, as Harran says," he answered, "but it seems to me that there's no fairness in that proposition.

The presence of the railroad has helped increase the value of your ranches quite as much as your improvements.

Why should you get all the benefit of the rise in value and the railroad nothing?
The fair way would be to share it between you." "I don't care anything about that," declared Annixter.

"They agreed to charge but two-fifty, and they've got to stick to it." "Well," murmured Genslinger, "from what I know of the affair, I don't believe the P.and S.W.intends to sell for two-fifty an acre, at all.
The managers of the road want the best price they can get for everything in these hard times." "Times aren't ever very hard for the railroad," hazards old Broderson.
Broderson was the oldest man in the room.