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Show MADC A PROFITABLE TRADE. Land Worth Millions Exchanged for Second Hand Articles. Frank A. Mlnga. principal of gram-1 mar eehool No. 21, has suddenly found himself a prospective millionaire, while a all figure fortune I plainly within grasp. M-. Mings Is the owner of an eighty-sera eighty-sera tract of Iron land a'wut 100 miles north of Duluth, In St. lxrala county, Minn. Ho got tha land on a trade In 1KN7 for a second band bnrgy and a furnace more or leae tha worse for wear. He didn't think much of hi land, though It waa located on tha Me.iaba Iron range, from which mil-llona mil-llona of tons of ore have been taken, but one day a mining expert wmta from Kly. Minn., offering 166.009 for his waste land. One company looked over Mr. Wing's holdings a abort time ago and offered him IIS.OOO per month for tha privilege of working a mine en It. Another company wlahed to buy a part Interest for 1100,000, and begin work Immediately. As an absolutely clear title to tha property la vested In Mr. Mings, and Its reputed value as an outright purchase pur-chase climbs up to 11.000.000, It look aa If th principal of school No. 1 made a record breaking bargain when he exchanged an antiquated buggy and a second hand furnace for eighty acrea of the Meaaba rge. Mr. Mings says he will continue to teach. liuffolo Knqulrcr. |
