"No--not a square foot of it.

I am the general manager of the Guthrie Steel Company with head-quarters here in New York.

We have been looking for mineral up in that section of the State, and struck yours.

I might as well tell you that I made the borings myself." "Are you an expert ?" asked Jack.

The way people searched his title, examined his tax receipts and rammed hypodermics into his property without permission was, to say the least, amusing.
"Been at it thirty years," replied Ballantree in a tone that settled all doubt on the subject.
"It is a low-grade ore, you know," explained Jack, feeling bound to express his own doubts of its value.
"No, it's a high-grade ore," returned Ballantree with some positiveness; "that is, it was when we got down into it.