The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-07-11
A GREAT SCHEME
Nfhs Story - - EpG1e..ae, ~ A1vnD
aare, asA - EDfsaHh-
BY LDOz MEAD.
CHAPTER L

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Wa suspended until tie ofaeia1s could
determine whether it would Be best 70
push mp Redwood Valley and take the1s
! chances Of n some way getting Over
them, OF make IN extended northern
route around them. During this pause
fhe town Of Ailegnn sprang up and grew
Ike mushroom. a large immigration
poured n. Within four months Ailegan
ciafmed six hctes, double thst number
81 boarding. houses, ten stores, two esv-
ines banks, and fifteen faro banks; b.
Dds. IN thnt time, the foundations u
three ehurch structures hsd been laiA.
AZ length The railroad was extended,
but not mp the Redwood Valley - every
cns In Allegan hoped Il would. IL was
feared there might come into existence Q
rival town that would encroach upon III
interests Of A1legnn, should the northern
route b prosecuted. But the rival town
did not appear, though Allegan suffered .
reaction eueh = visits many frontier ~
Elements prematurely developed. A con-
sideznble number Of the population eithee
returned Est or straGgled mp Redwood
Vallsy with aericultaral designA
10 eompensste, perhaps, for her lack Of
fWtility q just that point wheCe tie
beagtifll Redwood Valley merged sb-
Puptly into TIE rugged Redwood Chnyon,
na1ure ssvsaled tseaSnre vsalt Of gold
n one Of lie mountains.
This discovery aiAed AlIeEan not .
sMttle - segatning hw prosperity, aGov-
aEnmsnt aesay once md snaeiting works
bsing e11ablishsd thHa, 70 which III III
90 fBom IL mine MAS shipped. Pros
Peeooeo peuho0 - vain for anxi1egcus a.
1oai1s above - so-ealled " lGias Aiiee /"
mines - eo11 eoome0 oonAnod 20 this
- peak. r = tsus. : IN msagss oat-
0eDDlnW aDRsnred hnse sD1 theEa, but
ao1o WkSeh would warrant labor.
Apagtv q agSisaltnrislS I'D followed
- 0nyso ~ axtv milels until = Lat
- anaafno % . lsSol, granv suDmit Of
1oDo a1uA pissee1 ~ Q allvW. tinto0
~ - I'M and OnRoking acso1s IL
t0o0 g1leh g 10 southeastern extEsmj1y.
Aanno wsao maAo . IL colony, but - due
1he - VILLAGE % OhseFvafion Poius vas
aho1t equally blssse0 snd ouxsed with .
NonDus % LID soulk
0eall ths inseituticns b Observatioa
SoanE tie GEnde1 school Was TIE greatest
ViG1tols % tie village were always Inn
Haod with that facE. How could e
Avo besn Other than great, under Tie d.
AaDtion Of Alico OrOfton.
IL young hdy just alluded 20 W. n
A1phAn. ehe had come West with the
0nly living relative THAT she knew Of in
e. wogld-an uncle, who was super NJ
Sandent Of the mine which had boen
named In her honor. Alice was twenty
i've, by no means considered an old maid.
since The fairness Of her akin was gtfll en-
AAnced By giFlish bloom-akin that had
mot taksn on either the sallow palloR or
&Ae rough, betty noridity, which are the
Inevitable extremes Of . spinster's COM
HAexicn-
She was what her early ccmpanions at
school in Connecticut called "smart,n
what IN this section Of the West was
Known % "good nm" Alice was well
adapted for teacher, possessing that
fnculty-not rare in women-by which
she wns able TO disburse her knowledge
tn the most wholesale, direct and efIectual
manner.
Il was during . protracted drought that
Observation Point fell collective victim.
20 20 speak, TO the most violent attack Of
cholera. Alice's Uncle Dan was paying
her . visit e the time. All the children
became prosfxated with the appalling
i. epidemic, and the school was discon-
tinued.
The rate Of mortality was simply fright
full The driver Of the stage between Al
legan and Observation Point was seized
with It while en- route down the canyon,
and died before reaching his earthly dos
tination- TheBe were only two passenger
IN the stage that dag Presbyterian
clergyman and m old lady, who had been
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