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Show MISSED A FOBTUITE. " Representative Dayton- of West Virginia, Vir-ginia, is one of the men who can tell a story of how they might have become millionaires Some years ago Judge Goff. who lives at Clarksburg, owned a large tract of land from which. the timber tim-ber had been cleared. It was not a very-attractive very-attractive proposition at that time, as the land.dlO not pro.-r.iie rr.uch in the way of agriculture, and' no or.e thought of it as desirable for any other purpose. Goff. on an occasion when Dayton waa vlpiUrng him, suggested that he buy it and develop it agriculturally. It was a big tract and Goff would have been glad to pell it for t! or $3 an acre. He would have taken almoi-t anything, as it was Impossible for him to personally put it to use, and be could not pee any prospective profit In holding it. Dayton didn't see any reason why he rhould buy the tract of land, and Juga Goff was obliged to hold or to it. After eome years oil was found on it, and eventually the property became worth about $3,C0O,000. Now Daytol occasionally occa-sionally gets' in that rrt of the' country-end country-end looks at the J3.000.000 tract of land which -might have been hi for a few hundred dollars. Washington Star. |