| Show out west I 1 swapping is always associated with western life said a real estate broker to a reporter one always imagines a cowboy or ran ranchman climan meeting another and exchanging 0 a horse for a gun and a blanket or a number of cattle for a piece of land this barter is ia not only carried on in tile alie west you would bo be surprised to see what queer transactions wo we have to make sometimes A lady in this city who had somo some fine diamonds wished to make an investment in real estate but had bid no money to invest she came to us and we managed to got get a piece of land for which she gave some of her diamonds tile the man who disposed of the land did not want avant the diamonds after lie ho had received them and lie he again managed to exchange them for a share in a good paying business in a small country town sometimes all the stock in the store will be valued and taken foi real estate sometimes t horses and carriages will avill bo be given for businesses new york mail and express |
