Every man that had a few pounds wanted a horse to ride or drive; every miner wanted a wash-dirt cart and a horse to draw it.
The farmer wanted working horses, for wasn't hay sixty or seventy pounds a ton, and corn what you liked to ask for it?
Every kind of harness horse was worth forty, fifty, a hundred pounds apiece, and only to ask it; some of 'em weedy and bad enough, Heaven knows.

So between the horse trade and the road trade we could see a fortune sticking out, ready for us to catch hold of whenever we were ready to collar..