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good a play he gets, he wants to buy the table outright. This has happened
several times, and while I haven’t as yet sold the tables, I’m figuring on
letting the tavern owners have them since the re-sale price of $125 offers a
good profit on each table.”

Owens feels there is never a good reason for turning down profit. He declares
his future policy will be to take the profit from operating the machines as
long as possible, and then to sell them to the taverns, insuring himself of a
two-way profit on his money. The idea is worth considering, if you want to
make money operating this type of coin machine. There are many good
locations in all parts of the country where this table ought to pay since no
“gambling” objection may be raised to the machine.

Turning a Natural Flair to Profit

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PRINCIPLE of business success too often overlooked is striving to do some
one thing better than anybody else is doing it. This idea is well expressed in
that old saw about the man who can build a better mouse-trap being sought
out, however far he may be from the beaten path. Take guns, for instance.
You would hardly think of “gun doctoring” as being a business that would
make money. Guns are such incidental things. Yet Jack Roske, of San
Francisco, has found it highly profitable.

In 1927 while still in high school, Jack Roske used to drop in on a gunsmith
because he was curious about firearms. Some of his questions were too deep
for the gunsmith (he was an artisan not an oracle) but he was deeply
impressed. The boy was a “natural”! He let Jack help him after school,
teaching him many things, and after graduation took him in as an apprentice
and kept him until the business failed.

Roske then went to punching cattle, but his interest in firearms never flagged
and he continued studying about guns past and present. There are few really
authoritative books on the subject of firearms and these, having been printed
in limited editions numbering a thousand or less, come high. Some cost five