The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-25

using the company's property, but there
was less than half a carload of coal on
the premises. Without fuel we would
be helpless
Use wood" suggested Tommy.
But / told him we would burn more
wood than the ties and poles would be
worth; not only that, there was no
wood to be had, as the farmers only
cut barely enough for their own use
There's coal in the cave
Tommy's allusion to the coal set me
TO thinking, and evidently it did him
for next morning we met half way be-
tween our respective homes and in
formed each other in chorus that we
had found way to get that coal out.
We found that our ideas while similar
were Just enough different so that by
combining parts of each we could have
d good plan.
We followed Alder brook down to the
path. The water tumbled in a thin
sheet over a tolerably straight edge of
rock, twenty feet long. Near the CEN
ter a point of rock projected above the
water about two feet. If we could dam
the stream from the south bank over to
that rock. all the water would be COM
PEELED to run over the north half Of the
fall. leaving the entrance TO the cave
exposed. II was seldom anybody went
that way nowadays, so We hoped TO be
able to do the job, damming the stream
and coaling up, without being discov-
cred; but If we were--well, II couldn't
be helped.
We got the ak and saw from the en-
gine's tank box and some boards and
joists We sawed three joists in two
and sharpened the ends, making six
strong stakes. We drove them in a
sianting line from the bank to the rock
in the middle letting them point a bit
up stream. Then we showed two boards
edssewlse into the water on the up
stream side of the stakes.
The affect was instantaneous. The
water was all DETECTED. TO the north
side of the fall. and for the first time in
the worId-probably-t sun shone into
the tunnel. We could hardly spare the
time TO drive a few nails in the boards
to keep them in place. SO eager were we
to 80 down and look in. The boards
didn't fit the bottom snugly; it boiled
through. and after awhile it began to
dribble over the edge of the rock again.
We cut short pieces Of beard and drove
them down endwise into the mud, all
the way across. and stopped that. 1t
took US all day. and we worked most
of the time in the freezing water, but
our dam was tight and we were highly
eiated. AS we had to go farther back
Tor the coal during the last days, il was
a week before we got enough. pulled
up our dam and were ready for BUSH
ness.
AS nearly everybody would be at the
Saturday evening debating society at
the schoolhouse. we decided to make our
bid for patronage there. ! called for
Carrie and on the way to the school,
house had the pleasure of meeting Ed
Dennison. headed for the widows. We
babe him pleasant good evening, and
a moment later d glance back showed
him slouching along disconsolatelS,
head down and hands in pockets. Car
rie's eyes sparkled mischievouslys but
neither OF as said q. word.
Ed came in shortly after us, and took /
a seat behind the stove-sure sign that
he was out of joint.
When the house was well filed. and I
before the chairman was elected, 1
excused myself to Carrie and went upon
the platform. knew my ears We're
red, and / couldn't see anything of the /
audience but eyes. L felt buzzy. and l /
wished / hadn't been so brash. How
ever, 1 was in for it, and Carrie was
watching me, so, after clearing my