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Show USED SNOW AS A LEDGER Unusual Business Methods of Merchant Mer-chant in Western Canada Recorded Re-corded by Traveler. Americans have made Winnipeg, Regina, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Ed-monton, and the majority of Americans Ameri-cans have cleaned up fortunes in the last few years because of the Canadians Cana-dians themselves. I will give one instance in-stance of fortunemaking, which clearly clear-ly comes under the head of "unusual business methods," a writer in the bookkeeper says. In a thickly settled set-tled prairie district not far from Moose Jaw a few Canadians had opened up a coal mine, the product of which they sold to the' surrounding farmers. Settlers would come in wagons and sleighs and load their own inter's fuel, which cost them from one to two dollars a ton, according accord-ing to the run. It was early winter when I first made the acquaintance of this mine and its remarkable "su-perinteyident," "su-perinteyident," and my first reception from this individual was a fierce yell on his part and the frantic brandishing brandish-ing of a long stick and the words: "What the devil are you doing? Can't you see? Are you stone blind?" 1 was literally walking through his books! Since morning and this was three o'clock In the afternoon he had been keeping a record of outgoing sleighs and wagons of coal in the snow! About 20 farmers were drawing draw-ing that day. With his stick he had written the Initials of each in a clean spot in the snow and with that same Etick had registered the number of tons they had taken away. I had spoiled one-half of his "books" and It was an hour before he became at all affable. 1 was still more astonished when I entered the "superintendent's" little board office. The walls were black with pencil marks, figures and names. A fire would have burned down his "book" of two years past |