The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-21
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Your man seemed to know most of
the story beforehand" he said HE
pumped the rest of ii out of me, and
then ordered me to go and get him
$4,000 in cash before o'clock"
Hooper laughed. 81 told you he was
a very Independent young eagle bird,
he said. THE only advantage is that
II Peter once starts out in a fight he'll
come back to his perch sooner or later
with what's left OF the other fellow
hanging from his talons. By the way,
you've got to hurry if you're going to
get that money there in time
Tomlinson went back to Peter Pot
ter's office with a roll of bills.
THE money loss in this fight is large
enough and threatens TO be larger. Mr.
Potter" he said, but there's a ques-
ton of business honor involved be-
Sides
Yes, business honor" repeated Peter
Potter. Tomlinson looked at him with
a half suspicious. half perplexed look
in his little. round eyes.
Il suppose, Mr. Potter" he went IN,
you'll guarantee success in this
thing?''
I'll guarantee nothing Peter an
swered. Come back next Thursday at
o'clock in the afternoon and I'll give
you my report. Good day, SIR
That evening, at his bachelor quar-
ters on the North Side, Peter Potter
tried a series of experiments in the
little laboratory back of his library. He
was chiefly occupied with a long rub
Der tube, attached to gas jet, couple
Of alcohol lamps and a pressure guage.
With the aid of a text book on physics,
1e also made some mathematical calcu-
lations.
$50 long as they're depending entire
~ on the supply from Fayette county,
it ought to be easy" he said to HIM
self. THE trouble will be to find The
man"
The next evening Peter Potter took
a train which carried him down into
the natural gas country. The main gas
reservoirs, where the gas was COLLECTED
from all the wells and stored nnder
pressure, before being pumped into the
pipes which carried il to the city, We're
located at Fayette, the county seat Of
Fayette county. Peter Potter got off
the Pullman there in the gray of the
early morning and went across the
street to the little hotel.
II don't suppose there's a bit of use
trying to sell you Fayette people any
coal, is there?' he asked casually
stopping at the desk after breakfast to
chat with the landlord.
The old man grinned. II don't know
stranger" he said. 1T don't look natu-
Idl OUSHl 10 DC any market lot
coal here. Gosh knows we ought to
have gas a-plenty. But the Fayette
Natural Gas company has been buying
up all the wells. No telling how high
they'll boost the price"
Got all the wells. have they?"
Every blamed one in the belt, so
fairs L know. They closed up with
Henry Larsen last week. They's two
big wells on his farm, and he was the
last one of the boys to hold out against
'em. Now they've got 'em all gobbled.'
How far out does Larsen live?"
"Oh. he's located right here in Fay
cite. He's a-making shoe polish down
the pipe line here half mile
In the lane behind the hotel and on
the surface of the ground ran the huge
pipe which carried the gas from the
pumping station on across country to
Metropolis, nearly two hundred miles
away. Peter Potter went out and
started to follow the pipe line. On
either side a high board fence protect
q ed it from interference. Presently he
came to a little frame building, built
alongside the line and surrounded lay
a high board StOckade. The pipe ran
into this stockade on one side and out
on the other. In front there was a
big gate, and over it a sign reading: