"Promote a mining company?" she repeated. "That sounds extremely
businesslike. How--when--where?"
"Now--here in Granville," he replied. "The how is largely Paul
Lorimer's idea. You see," he continued, warming up a bit to the
subject, "when I was prospecting that creek where we made the clean-up
last summer, I ran across a well-defined quartz lead. I packed out a
few samples in my pockets, and I happened to show them as well as one
or two of the nuggets to some of these fellows at the club a while
back. Lorimer took a piece of the quartz and had it assayed. It looms
up as something pretty big. So he and Brooks and a couple of other
fellows want me to go ahead and organize and locate a group of claims
in there. Twenty or thirty thousand dollars capital might make 'em all
rich. Of course, the placer end of it will be the big thing while the
lode is being developed. It should pay well from the start. Getting
the start is easy. As a matter of fact, you could sell any old wildcat
that has the magic of gold about it. Men seem to get the fever as soon
as they finger the real yellow stuff. These fellows I've talked to are
dead anxious to get in."
"But"--her knowledge of business methods suggested a difficulty--"you
can't sell stock in a business that has no real foundation--yet.
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