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on lumber to build a shanty. It was a plain
touch! so so
The friend turned the order over to a Weis-
heimer lumber-dealer, who stuffed the order
and shipped two carloads, which was about
four times as much stuff as Wentz required-
and a deal more than he could pay for.
In any event, the lumber duly arrived, and
Wentz got busy building his shanty. He
could n’t use all the lumber, so he sold what
he did not need to his neighbors.
He remitted for the lumber, and got his shanty
for nothing.
Straightway he used the wires, ordering out
three more carloads-and behold, he was
launched in the lumber business before he
knew it.
His lumber-yard accidentally was located
right in the center of Saskatoon. However,
he did n’t know this for two years. The land
that cost him a few thousand dollars, he
divided up into building-lots and sold at the
tidy sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
By this time Wentz had arranged to take the
entire product of several sawmills.
Wentz showed people how to build economic-
ally and well. He was satisfied with a minimum
of profit, and this at a time when the lumber-
dealer was a bashi-bazouk and charged all the
trafiic would bear.
Wentz is now Vice-President of the J. O.
Hettle Company, Second Vice-President of
the Industrial League, Director of the Board
of Trade, Director of the Country Club. In
spite of his many interests, he has all the time
there is, and if you want somebody to hustle
for you, call on Wentz.
When you want things done, call on a busy
man-the other kind has no time.
Some of the World-Makers
T Saskatoon you will find a bouquet of
nationalities.
I met N. G. Boggs, native of Donegal, Ireland.
Boggs was a bank-clerk before he came here,
and before that was a clerk at the button-
counter in a drygoods-store.
Boggs bought real estate in Saskatoon--simply
a lot at a time--and sold whenever he could
make twenty-five dollars. His Irish blamey
enabled him to do business fast.
He had the prophetic eye, and knew which
way the cat was going to jump.
He organized the Saskatchewan Investment
and Trust Company, of which he is Vice-
FIZFI
One Hundred Thirty-seven
President and Managing Director. He is
President of the King George Hotel, which is
a gold-mine in itself; Director of the Kinders-
ley Land Company; Director of the North
Empire Fire Insurance Company; President
of the Standard Construction Company, and
President of the Standard Auto Supply
Company so ac-
Boggs is worth a million easy enough; and he
made it all since day before yesterday.
The Mayor of Saskatoon is F. E. Harrison, a
native of Ottawa, manager of the Union Bank.
(I Harrison is the only man I met in Saska-
toon who has n’t gotten rich on real estate.
He buckled down to the banking business,
and just takes a little cent per cent on what
others are doing, and lets it go at that.
As far as I can see, Harrison is in no danger
of going on half-rations.
W. C. Sutherland, Scotch by pedigree, came
here from Winnipeg, which he found a little
slow. Sutherland is Speaker of the Provincial
Legislature u. so
He took up a farm of one hundred sixty acres
as a homestead; then bought all the land that
adjoined the homestead.
Sutherland does not focus exclusively on
grain. He breeds high-class horses, cattle and
sheep. Incidentally he raises poultry and pet
stock 90- -90-
The man in this country who can rise above
the temptation to raise wheat and raises live-
stock instead and feeds the men who raise
wheat is a sure winner.
The weak point in Saskatoon just now is the
fact that the farmers in Saskatchewan do not
raise their own food. Bacon is shipped in here
from Chicago and Kansas City by the car-
load so so-
So far, they have n’t had time in Saskatchewan
to set hens, much less to raise pigs.
Engen and Sutherland, however, and a few
others see the handwriting on the wall. They
know that most people eat three times a day,
especially in this country where everybody
has his appetite with him.
0. M. Helgerson
NE of the most romantic of all careers of
Saskatoon citizens is the record of O. M.
Helgerson, who naturally is a Norwegian;
and if his first name is n’t Ole, it should be.
(LI-Ielgerson was born in Iowa, of parents
who came from across the sea.
In Iowa he raised poultry, and got money