"I'll have a bigger one by and by, but in the meanwhile it includes the selling of timber in place of destroying it, and a doubling right off of the Somasco mill.

It also takes in a gristmill, the recording of more timber rights, and most of you getting in on the ground floor of a new silver mine.

There's to be an office down in Vancouver, and a desiccated fruit store, and the best men we can get hold of to run them.

Now sit still while I read what might do for a scheme." They sat very still, and even Seaforth, who knew his comrade, wondered a little, for that scheme, while crude in one or two directions, was eminently workable.

It provided for a pro rata division of profits and partition of expenses, while each man would retain the control of his own holding, and those who listened nodded now and then as they noted the efficiency of some portion of the plan of co-operation.
"Now," said Alton quietly, laying down the paper.