"Land-poor" Quotes from Famous Books
... minute. "I've always been land-poor," he explained apologetically. "Never kept much of a reserve working- capital for emergencies, you know. Whenever I had idle money, I put it into timber in the San Hedrin watershed, because I realized that some day the railroad would build in from the south, tap that timber, and double its ... — The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne |