The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-23

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 down heavily to keep their charges in place. Other men laid heavy blanks side by side perpendicular to and on the upstream side of the horses. The weight of the water clamped them in place. Big rocks and gravel shoveled on A quantity prevented the lower ends from rising. The wide slant of the legs directed the pressure SO far downward that the horses were pre- vented from Coating away. and slowly the bulk of the water. thus raised a good three feet above its former level. turned aside Into the new channel and poured ont to inundate the black ash swamp beyond
 A good volume still poured down to the fall. but 1t was so far reduced that work became possible
 Now. boysr' cried Orde-, Lively while we've got the chancer
 The twenty-six foos-log were placed side by side. slanting from a point two feet below the rim of the fall to the ledge below They were bolted to- gether top and bottom through the four holes bored for that purpose. The task finished. they pried the flash boards from the improvised dam. piled them neatly beyond reach of high water. rescued the sa awhorses and piled them also for a possible future use and blocked the temporary chan mel The river. restored to it's imme- morial channel by these men who had so nonchalantly turned 1t aside. roared on- Orde and his crew tramped back to rhe falls and gazed- on their handi- work with satisfaction. Instead of plunging over an edge into turmoil of foam and eddies. now the water flowed smoothly. almost without a break. over an incline of thirty de grees. f
 Logs I'll slip over. that slick as gun barrei'' said Tom North.
 Quite eheerfuiIy they took up their long. painsto king journey back down the river.
 The trail led the. crew through many minor labors. all of which consumed time. At Reeds mill Orde entered Into diplomatic negotiations with old man Reed. whom he found sfngulariy amenable- The skirmish in the spring seemed to have taken all the fight out of him. or perhaps. more simply, Orde's attitude toward him at that time had won him over to the young mans side Orde's crew built a new sluiceway and gate far enough down to assure a good head in the pond above.
 Tn September the crew had worked down as far as Bedding. leaving be- hind them river harnessed for their uses. Remained still the forty miles between Bedding and the lake. Orde here paid off his men. A few days work with a pile driver would fence the principal shoals from the channel
 He stayed overnight with his par ents and took the train for Monrovia to meet Newmarl.
 Hello. Joer' greeted Orde. his teeth flashing in contrast to the tan of his face I'm done. Anything new since you wrote last:"
 Newmark had acquired his articles of incorporation and sold his stock. Perhaps his task had in it as much of difficulty as Orde's tanning of the river. Certainly he carried it to as successful a conclusion. The bulk of the stock he sold to log owners. Some blocks even went to Chicago. His own little fortune of twenty thousand he paid in for the shares that represented his half of the majority retained by himself and Orde. The latter gave a note at 10 per cent for bis proportion of the stock Newmark then borrowed fif- teen thousand more. giving as security a mortgage on the company's newly acquired property-the tugs. booms. buildings and real estate. Thus was the financing determined It left the company with obligations of s1.5OO year in interest. expenses which would run heavily into the thousands and an obligation to make good outside stock worth at par exactly $49.0Oo. In addi- ton Orde had charged against his ac- count burden of $o.000 a year inter est on his personal debt To offset these liabilities. outside the river inn provements and equipments. which would hold little or no value in case of