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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30

room. McCloud in a leisurely way
rose, though with a slightly flushed
face. and at that juncture Marion ran
into the room and spoke abruptly.
Here is the silk, Mr.. Sinclair" she
exclaimed, handing to him a package
she had not finished wrapping. 81
meant you to wait in the other ROOM"
at was an accidental intrusion" re-
NVrned Sinclair, maintaining his irony.
Nhave apologized, and Mr. McCloud
and | understand one another better
than ever"
please say to Miss Dunning," con-
tinued Marion, nervous and insistent,
that the band for her riding-hat
hasn't come yet, but it should be here
tomorrow"
AS she spoke McCloud leaned across
the table, resolved to take advantage
of the opening, If it cost him his life.
And by the way, Mr.. Sinclair, Miss
Dunning wished me to say to you that
the lovely bay colt you sent her had
sprung his shoulder badly, the hind
shoulder. l think. but they are doing
everything possible for it and they
think it will make great horse"
Sinclair's snort at the information
was a marvel of indecision. Was he
being made fun Of? Should he draw
and end it? But Marion faced him
resolutely as he stood, and talking
in the most business like way she
backed him out of the room and to
the shop door. Baked of his ol9or-
tunity. he retreated stubbornly but
with the utmost politeness. and left
with a grin, lashing his tail, so to
speak.
Coming back, Marion tried to hide
her uneasiness under even tones to
McCloud. I'm sorry he disturbed
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mo man that has ever played me
dirt can stay here while | stay" Sin
clair, with a hand on the portiere, was
moving from the doorway into the
nected through curtained door with
the shop, McCloud sat one day alone
eating his dinner. Marion was in
front serving a customer. McCloud
heed till a man walked through the
curtained doorway and he saw Murray
Sinclair standing before him. A
stormy interview with Callahan and
Blood at the Wickiup had taken place
just a week before, and McCloud after
what Sinclair had then threatened,
though not prepared, felt as he saw
him that anything might occur. Nc
Cloud being in possession of the little
room, however, the initiative fell on
Sinclair, who, looking his best,
snatched his hat from his head and
bowed ironically. my mistake" he
said blandly.
Come right in" returned McCloud,
not knowing whether Marion had a
possible hand in her husbands uneX-
pected appearance. do you want -
see me?"
Il don't" smiled Sinclair; "and to
be perfectly frank" he added with
studied consideration, Il wish to God
never had seen you. Well-you've
thrown me, McCloud."
you've thrown yourself, haven't
you, Murray"
From your point of view, of course.
But, McCloud, this is a small country
for two points of view. Do you want
to get out of it, or do you want
me to-"
"The country suits me, Sinclair"
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CHAPTER V.-Continued.

Betty came with only her colored
maid, old Puss Dunning, who had
taken her from the nurses arms when
she was born and taken care of her
ever since. The two-the tall Ken
lucky girl and the bent mammy-ar-
rived at the Stone ranch one day in
June, and Richard, done then with
bridges and looking after his ranch
interests, had already fallen violently
in love with Betty She was delicate,
but, if those in Medicine Bend who re-
membered her said true, a lovely
creature. Remaining in the mountains
was the last thing Betty had ever
thought of, but no one, man or woman,
could withstand Dick Dunning. She
fell quite in love with him the first
time she set eyes on him in Medicine
Bend, for he was very handsome in
the saddle, and Betty was fairly wild
about horses. So Dick Dunning
wooed a fond mistress and married
her and buried her, and all within
hardly more than year.
But in that year they were very
happy, never two happier, and when
she slept away her suffering she left
him, as legacy, tiny baby girl. Puss
brought the mite of a creature in its
swaddling clothes to the sick mother
very, very sick then-and poor Bet
ty turned her dark eyes on 1t, kissed
it, looked at her husband and whis-
pered "Dicksie," and died. Dicksie
had been Betty's pet name for her
mountain lover, so the father said the
child's name should be Dicksie and
nothing else; and his heart broke and
soon he died. Nothing else, storm or
flood, death or disaster, had ever
moved Dick Dunning; then a sin
gle blow killed him. He rode
once in a while over the ranch,
great tract by that time of 10000
acres, all in one body, all under fence
up and down both sides of the big
river, in part irrigated, swarming with
cattle-none of it stirred Dick! and
with little Dicksie in his arms he
slept away his suffering.
SO Dicksie was left, as her mother
had been, to Puss, while Lance looked
after the ranch, swore at the price of
cattle and played cards at Medicine
Bend At ten, Dicksie, as thoroughly
spoiled as pet baby could be by
fool nanny, a fond cousin, and
galaxy of devoted cowboys, was sent,
in spite of crying and fiinging, to a
far-away convent-her father had
planned everything-where in many
tears she learned that there were 9TH
er things in the world besides cattle
and mountains and sunshine and tall,
broad-hatted horsemen to swing from
their stirrups and pick her hat from
the ground-just to see little Dicksie
laugh-when they swOoped past the
house to the corrals. When she came
back from Kentucky, her grandmother
dead and her schooldays finished, all
the land she could see in the valley
was hers.
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By CHS SCA6MER5 S0WS

you. l was attending to customer
and had to ask him to wait a mo-
ment."
Don't apologize for having a Gus
TONER"
HE lives over beyond the Stone
ranch, you know, and is taking some
things out for the Cummings to-day. He
likes an excuse to come in here be-
cause it annoys me. Finish your din
ner, Mr.. McCloud."
Thank you, I'm DONE"
"But you haven't eaten anything.
Isn't your steak right?"
Its fine, but that maxwell, you
know how like him and how he likes
me. I'll content myself with digesting
my temper"
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CHAPTER VIII.
The Misunderstandinq.

No attempt was made to minimize
the truth that the blow to the division
was a staggering one. The loss of
Smoky creek bridge put almost 1000
miles of the mountain division out OF
business. Perishable freight and time
freight were diverted to other lines.
Passengers were transferred; lunches
were served to them in the deep val
ley, and they were supplied by an in
genuous advertising department with
pictures of the historic bridge as it
had long stood, and their addresses
were taken with the promise of pic
ture of the ruins. The engineering de-
partment and the operating depart
ment united in a tremendous effort to
bring about a resumption of traffic.
Glover's men, pulled off construction,
were sent forward in trainloads. Dan
cing's linemen strung arc lights along
the creek until the canyon twinliled
at night like mountain village, and
men in three shifts worked elbow to
elbow increasingly to run the switch
backs down to the creek bed. There,
by cribbing across the bottom, they
got in a temporary line.
McCloud spent his days at the creek
and his nights at Medicine Bend with
his assistant and his chief dispatcher,
advising, counseling, studying out
trouble reports, and steadying wher-
ever he could the weakened lines of
his operating forces. He was getting
his first taste of the trials of the hard
est worked and poorest paid man in
the operating department of railroad
the division superintendent.
To these were added personal an
noyances. A trainload of Duck Bar
steers, shipped by Lance Dunning
from the Crawling Stone ranch, had
been caught west of the bridge the
very night of the fire. They had been
loaded at Upton and shipped to catch
good market, and under extravaganza
promises from the livestock agent of
quick run to Chicago. When Lance
Dunning learned that his cattle had
been caught west of the break and
would have to be unloaded, he swore
u9 a horse in hot haste and started for
Medicine Bend. McCloud, who had
not closed his eyes for 60 hours, had
just got into Medicine Bend from
Smoky Creek and was sitting at his
desk buried in a mass of papers, but
he ordered the cattleman admitted.
He was, in fact, eager to meet the
manager of the big ranch and the
cousin of Dicksie. Lance Dunning
stood above six feet in height. and
was a handsome man, in spite of the
hard lines around his eyes, as he
walked in; but neither his manner nor
his expression was amiable.
Are you Mr.. McCloud? I've been
here three times this afternoon to
see you," said he, ignoring McCloud's
answer and a preferred chair This
is your Office, isn't it?"
McCloud, a little surprised, an
swered again and civilly: 1T certain
ly is; but have been at Smoky Creek
for two or three days."
What have ysu done with my cat
tle?"
THE Duck Bar train was run back
to Point of Rocks and the cattle were
glloaded at the yard"
Lance Dunning spoke with increas-
ing harshness: by whose order was
that done? Why wasn't l notified?
Have they had feed or water?"
"All the stock caught west of the
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hausted to undertake controversy,
even if it were to be thought Of, and
it was not.
Nothing further was needed to COM
plete his humiliation. He picked up
his hat and with the thought of get
ting out as quietly as he had come in.
In rising he swept tumbler at his
elbow from the table. The glass broke
on the floor, and Marion exclaimed:
what is that?" and started for the
dining room.
1t was too late to get away. Nc
Cloud stepped to the portieres of the
trimming room door and pushed them
aside. Marion stood with hat in her
hand, and Dicksie, sitting at the table,
was looking directly at the intruder as
he appeared in the doorway. She saw
in him her pleasant acquaintance of
the wreck at Smoky Creek, whose
name she had not learned. In her sur
prise, she rose to her feet, and Marion
spoke quickly: ooh, Mr.. McCloud, is
it you? | did not hear you come in"
Dicksie's face, which had lighted,
she heard the name. McCloud, con-
scious of the awkwardness of his po-
sition and the disorder of his garb,
said the worst thing at once Il fear
| am inadvertently overhearing your
conversation"
He looked at Dicksie as he spoke,
chiefly because he could not help it,
and this made matters homeless.
She flushed more deeply. 81 can
not conceive why our conversation
should invite listener"
Her words did not, of course, help
to steady him. q tried to get away
he stammered, when l realized l was
a part of it"
I'm any event." she exclaimed, hasti-
ly, "if you are Mr.. McCloud l think
it objectionable to do anything like
that!"
81 am Mr.. McCloud, though l should
rather be anybody else; and am sor-
ry that | was unable to help hearing
what was said; L"
Marion, will you be kind enough to
give me my gloves?" said Dicksie,
holding out her hand.
Marion, having tried once or twice
to intervene, stood between the firing
lines in helpless amazement. Her ex-
CARNATIONS were lost; the two before
her gave no heed to ordinary inter-
vention.
McClouud flushed at being cut off,
but he bowed. "Of course" he said,
'if you will listen to no explanation
l can only withdraw"
He went back, dinnerless, to work
all night: but the switchbacks were
doing capitally, and all night long
trains were rolling through Medicine
Bend from the west in an endless
string. In the morning the yard was
nearly cleared of west-bound tonnage.
Moreover, the mail in the morning
brought compensation. A letter came
from Glover telling him not to worry
himself to death over the tie-up. and
one came from Bucks telling him to
make ready for the building of the
Crawling Stone line.
McCloud told Rooney Lee that IL
anybody asked for him to report him
dead, and going to bed slept "a hours
CTo BE CoNTINUEDJ
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

so a part of the company's project.
This latter project will be opened for
entry sometime during the summer,
but water will not be brought to the
lands until the spring of 1910, at
which time the lands of the North
Gooding tract will also be watered.
Big Wood River Irrigation Project.
The Big Wood River Irrigation pro-
ject, which is being carried out by
the Idaho Irrigation company, COM
prises a number of segregations I'M
der the Carey Act, and a considerable
quantity of privately owned lands.
The lands divide themselves natural
ly into four Observation-Disclosures
10000 acres; South Gooding, 49,
900 acres acres of Carey act and pro-
badly 5000 acres of private owner
ship; North Gooding, $4,000 to TO-
900 acres; Dietrich, $1,000 acres.
OF these segregations about $4,000
acres of the Rich1eld and all of the
South Gooding lands have been TAX
en-. The Dietrich tract is now being |
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

surveyed and will be thrown open
for entry as soon as these surveys
have been completed and approved.
Lands Fertile.
The lands are all of the most fer
tile character, the climate being We
ry much the same as at Boise-some
what colder in winter and cooler in
summer. The elevation Of these
lands ranges from $500 to 1900
feet.
The work of building the main
dam is being done by J. G. White
company, the greatest firm of con
tractors in the world. The White
company nov has employed upwards
OF 500 men on the dam-this be-
ing all who can be profitably used
in construction. The canal canstruc-
ton has been sublet, and there are
several contractors on different por-
tons of the work, the number of
men employed by them being over
500.
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Waterworks System.

A w~aterworks system is being pu!
in and mains are being laid on the
principal streets. The Oregon Short
Line company has laid out a depol
grounds at the south end of MaiN
street, and a depot will be built in
the immediate future. The irriga-
ton company has located a water
works power on Little Wood river at
what is known as the ""drop," a few
miles south of town, where the river
takes a plunge of about 60 feet, and
will at once develop power for cleo
trio lights there. Until this power
has been developed, it will probably
be necessary to run the electric light
plant by steam or gasoline engine.
Water ON the Lands by May 1.
The Marley Burns" lands sur
rounding Richfield comprise some
thing over 10000 acres in all, of
which about $4,000 acres have al
ready been entered under the Carey
act. The remaining lands are being
taken up very rapidly. Water will
be ready for use on these lands by
May 1, 1909, and in anticipation of
this, already a number of entrymen
have commenced the work of clearing
and blowing, preparatory to the rails
ing of crops this year 1t is now ap-
parent that by November 1 of the
present year at least 800 families will
be residents on this magnificent tract
of land and within two years it may
be confidently predicted that fully
10000 acres of these lands will be
producing wheat, oats, barley, alfal-
ia, clover, field peas, beans, sugar
beets, potatoes or other vegetables
and small fruits, while thousands of
acres will be planted to orchard. The
lands are particularly well adapted
to the growth of all these crops. In
deed it is evident from the extremely
luxuriant growth of wild bunch grass
grass covering the land like a
Cdl PCJ"lhQ WILL Joo1 AAS>AO
this would be one of the fin
est dry farming regions in the world.
it is claimed by many of the
older settlers that these lands will
produce steadily winter wheat crops
without irrigation ranging from 20 to
35 bushels per acre.
Source of Water Supply.
The source of water supply for the
and is the Big Wood river. This
stream drains an area of over 1900
square miles on the south slope of the
5awtooth mountains, which include
he highest peaks in Idaho, reaching
IN altitude of more than $4,000 feet.
rhe snowfall of this region is very
leavy, and it is estimated hat the
-un off of Big Wood river is as great
Is that of the Boise, the drainage
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by, with massive stone fireplace and
outside is a loggia extending the full
length of the building, and of suti-
cient width to be used for outside
promenade or ball room. The hotel
will be equipped with all the conven-
fences and elegancies found in the
best hotels Of large cities. 1t is to
be managed for the irrigation COM
pany by Charles Caswell, who has
had many years experience, the in
tention being to conduct the hotel
with as much attention to perfec-
ton Of detail in table and room SER
vice as though it were located in a
metropolis.
The company has recently COM
pleted and is occupying it's new office
building, diagonally across the street
from the hotel. This is a brick struc-
ture, 25x60 feet in size and two stor-
les in height. The lower floor is used
by General Manager E. M. Blake of
the Idaho Irrigation company and his
staff of administrative assistants, and
the upper floor by Superintendent
and Chief Engineer James A. Green
of the j. G. White Co. the contractors
and his staff.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22
Building Operations.

Building operations here are mani
testify intended not only for present
ust. but with a clear idea of the fu-
ture. The Idaho Irrigation company
is constructing one of the handsom-
est hotel structures in the northwest.
It is of pressed brick and single coz
struction, will have 80 guest rooms,
with bath rooms, electric lights, te-
lephones and hot and cold water. On
tts ground floor besides the elesa1,i-
rFiappointed dining room, there =
beautiful hotel Office and public loo-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

area of which is over $4,000 square
miles in extent. The large flow of the
river provides for early irrigation
and supplies a large surplus to be
stored and used later in the season.
Dam in River.
After leaving the foothills the Big
Wood river flows through a broad
valley and then enters a deep narrow
canyon. A dam is being constructed
across the canyon at this point, and
will transform the valley into a deep
lake. Work on this dam began Sep
TENDER l., 1908, and it is expected it
will be fully completed by this time
next year. The structure will be of
the rock-fll type, 1876 feet high, 1872
feet thick at the base and 700 feet
long on top. A sharp bend in the
river made it possible to build the
outlet tunnel through the solid wall
of the canyon, thus permitting the
construction of a homogeneous struc-
ture without openings at the base. A
natural spillway makes ample provis-
ion for taking care of any floods. A
low dam has now been completed
just in front of the permanent struc-
ture, and which will raise the surface
of the water so that the flow of the
river will be taken through the tun-
mel, and sufficient water thus stored
can be used for this seasons irri-
cation on the 10000 acres surround
ing Richfield.
VIII Form a Great Lake.
When the main dam is completed
a lake will be formed in the valley
above IL miles long, two miles wide,
covering an area of $500 acres and
will hold 2O5,0 acre feet of water.
This water is carried to the lands bp
turning it into the river and diverting
it into canals at various points be-
low. Water for the Richfield tract
will be taken directly from Big Wood
at a diversion dam already con
SLTuCI6u dUOuJ LWO LILIES DelOW LuS
main dam and carried to the land.
Water for the south Gooding tract of
practically $4,000 acres is turned out
Big Wood river into what Is term
ed Cottonwood slough, which emp
ties into Little Wood riber. The canal
for the south Gooding tract common
ces at a point about eight miles east
Of Gooding, where a diversion dam
has been completed.
North Gooding Tract.
The North Gooding tract of the
IDAHO Irrigation Company comprises
10000 acres. The point of diversion
will be the same as for the Richfield
ands, but a different and much larg-
sr canal is being constructed to con-
yey the water. The Dietrich tract,
ying TO the east and south of Sho-
,hone, comprising $1,000 acres, is al
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

Across the street and directly south
of the new hotel building is the hand
some pressed brick and plate glass
fronted home of the First State Bank
of Richfield, which has just been
completed, the bank having moved in
this week. The bank was organized
by Nebraska capitalists with a capital
of $4,000. The banking room is as
finely and completely furnished as
any in the state, and is equipped
with a screw door, time lock safe and
fire proof vault. A safety deposit
vault has also been put in. On the
upper floor of the building are eight
large and well lighted offices. Just
east of the bank buiBiing, a three
story pressed brick store and office
building is approaching completion.
These four buildings represent m
thing over 100000, and are indica-
tive of the character of construction
now under way here.
During the past three months pro
badly 25 other business buildings
have been completed and there are
a number of other buildings which
are being pushed as rapidly as posi-
BILE. But it is not in the construc-
ton of business buildings that Rich
field is showing it's greatest evidence
of healthy permanence, but rather
In the neat cottages that have been
or are being built in all parts Of the
240-acre townsite. These residences
are without exception modern in de-
sign, evidently designed for perman-
emit homes.
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A o o
Idaho Daily Statesman's Estimate of
The Idaho Irrigation Project.

Under date of March %, the Idaho
Daily Statesman published at Boise
and the leading daily newspaper OF
all the inter-mountain country, pub
lished the following excellent article
on Richfie1d and the Idaho Irrigation
company's project. While some few
minor details are not precisely as
they should be, the article is so fair
and so well written that it is here
reproduced in it's entirety:
ERichfield's growth during the past
few months has approached the mar
velous. At the beginning of the year
the town was composed of perhaps a
dozen board and taxpayer shacks.
Now there are fully a hundred build
ings of stone, brick and lumber con-
struction either completed or near
ing completion, and fully as many
m1re under contract. The growth
of the community has been retarded
to a great extent by the difficulties
of securing building material and
skilled labor.
Building for the Future.
Richfeld may fttingly be charac-
terized as the central city of a new
empire. 1t is headquarters of the
Idaho Irrigation company, whose pro-
iect includes 10000 acres Of Carey
act lands surrounding the town, all
of which the company will be pre-
pared to furnish water for by May
/ next. The town is located on the
Wood River branch of the Oregon
Short Line, is near the North bank OF
Little Wood river and is about 15
miles northeast of Shoshone. 1t Is
located practically In the center of
what has long been called the Mar
ley Burn" for many years known to
sheep and stock men as the finest
stretch of wild grass lands in the
southern part of the state. 1t is
these lands, carpeted with wild bunch
grass, which have been segregated
under the Carey act, and which will
be irrigated this year.,
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-22

officers and Directors.
Richfeld, Idaho

Geo. ". Mickelwait, Pres,
R. E. Mickelwait, Vice-President.,
T. B. Brush, Cashier.