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The Lookout Man

CHAPTER SIX
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You know timber land is going to be tremendously valuable--it is now, in fact.

And this tract of beautiful big trees can be gotten and flumed--or something--down to a railroad that taps the country.

It's in Forest Reserve, you see, and can't be bought by the lumber companies.

I had the professor explain it all to me again, after I left the Martha, so I could tell you.
"A few of us can club together and take mining claims on the land--twenty acres apiece.

All we have to do is a hundred dollars' worth of work--just digging holes around on it, or something--every year till five hundred dollars' worth is done.


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