By the time the Wichita Falls bank opened its doors on Monday morning he had turned his last lease and had made ten thousand dollars.
A few days later he and Stoner incorporated their first company.

This was at the height of the town-site boom, and within a few hours McWade had sold the stock.

Thereafter prosperity dogged the pair, and before long they had made reputations for themselves as the only sure-fire wildcat promoters in town.

McWade possessed the gift of sidewalk oratory; Stoner posed as the practical field man whose word upon prospects was final.

He it was who did the investigating, the "experting"; his partner was the bally-hoo.
But competition grew steadily keener, other promoters followed their lead, and it became necessary to introduce new and original methods of gathering an audience.