A CORNER IN MUD.
Mild seems to bo the latest commodity which has bedn cornered. The-monopolist is the well-known Bohemian ' watcring-placo Frandenbad, ■ whoso' wonderful healing. mudbaths are l famous, throughout tho world. Tho news of Franzenbad's llusmesss enterprise has just become 1 known in tho course of.a lawsuit at'Bgorbotwooh the Saxon Government' and' tho'municipality of FfaiiKonbad. Saxony ba9 ; a watoring-plnco also, with mudbaths, Bad Elster. Somo timo ago Bad Elstor ontorecl into negotiations to buy a largo area-of ground containing mineral mud deposits near Franz/Onbad. Wlion tho .Bohomian town heard what was goingon, they prom-ptly decided to head off thoir Saxon rivals, and/stopped in and brought up tho land thomsolves. Tho Saxons woro greatly aggrieved, and carried tho mattor into tho Bohemian Courts,' which decided against thorn. " During tho trial it was stated that although" Franzonbad already possessed an inexhaustible supply of this precious mud tho town had spent ovo'r a million crowns in buying up all tho muil lands in the sirrromiding country in order to securo the oxclusiyo possession for all timo of this valu&Mo l>\al,?ng romedi» - y~ %/ \ '"•''■:'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 16, 14 October 1907, Page 8
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180A CORNER IN MUD. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 16, 14 October 1907, Page 8
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