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Then there are others who will sell anything they've 
got if they can get more than it cost them, and 
think they’ve made a fine speculation. One of these, 
for example, paid for his pre-emption with $200. 
Now if he can sell out for $1,200, he thinks he has 
made a thousand dollar speculation. And, of course, 
he has in one sense, but if he has money enough to 
go ahead where he is, in most cases he would do bet- 
ter tostay, especially as he is near a good market 
here.” 
WILL IT PAY ? 
“But the important question comes up again,” 
said he, “‘ how can this be made to pay? If I should 
buy two or three quarter-sections, and should decide 
to put tenants on them to bring them into cultiva- 
tion, what arrangement should be made that would 
be fair to me and to the tenant, and profitable to us 
- both ?”’ 
ILLUSTRATING A CASE. 
“Well, then,” I answered, ‘to illustrate let us 
suppose a case. Suppose you know an industrious 
young couple in Illinois who would like to go west, 
but don’t know where to go, and have no means to 
pay the expenses of hunting upa location and get-~ 
ting a start. You buy a quarter section here, in a 
good location and near a good market. It costs you, 
say ten dollars an acre, $1,600. You pay the ex- 
penses of your tenants. and ‘set them up in busi- 
ness;’ that is, furnish the means to build them a 
