Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-19
CHAPTER XXIv-(Continued) )

ed as has been earlier explained, by two rows of bOOms arranged in V, or | funnel, the apex of which emptied into the sluiceway and the wide, projecting arms of which embraced the width of the stream. The logs, floating down the pond, were thus concentrated to- ward the sluice; also the riyermen, walking back and forth the length of the booms, were able easily to keep the drive moving.
 Now, however, Orde unclaimed these boom logs The men pushed them ashore, clamped in their peavies and, using these implements as handles, carried the booms back into the woods. Then everybody tramped back and forth, round and about, to confuse the trail. Orde was like mischley ous boy at a school prank.
 The blazed logs belonging to Heinz man, drifting slowly, had sucked down into the corner toward the power canal, where caught against the grating, they had damned. These logs would have to be fioated singly and pushed one by one against the current across the pond and into the influence of the sluice gate. Some of them would be hard to come at.
 "I guess that will keep them busy for day or two," commented Orde.
 This, as Orde has said, would be s,If ficiently annoying to Heinzman, but would have little real effect on the main is-le, which was that the Ger man was getting down his logs with crew of less than dozen men. Ney- ertheless Orde in a vast spirit of fun took delight in inventing and executing practical jokes of the general sort just described. One day the chore boy, who had been over to Spruce Rapids after mail, reported that an additional crew of twenty had been sent in to Heinz mans drive. This was gratifying.
 Were making him scratch gravel, boys, anyway" said Orde.
 The men entered into the spirit of the thing In fact, their enthusiasm was almost too exuberant. Orde had constantly to negative new and in- CeniOus schemes
 
 on the right side of the law. We may need 1t later"
 Logs rarely jam on rising water, for the simple reason that constantly the surface area of the river is increasing, thus tending to separate the logs. On the other hand, falling water, tending to crowd the drive closer together is especially prolific of trouble. There fore, on flood water the watchers scattered along the stretches of the river had little to do-saye strand Heinzman's logs for him.
 Up to a certain point this was all very we'll. Orde took pains not to cOuntenance 1t officially and caused word to be passed about that, while he did not expect his men to help drive Heinzman's logs, they must not go out of their way to strand them.
 "If things get too bad, he'll have spies down here to collect evidence on us," said Orde, "and he'll jug some of us for interference with his prop erty. We don't own the river"
 Inside of two weeks Orde had the great satisfaction of learning that Heinzman was working-and working hard-a crew of fifty men.
 "A pretty fair crew, even if he was taking out his whole drive" com mented Orde.
 The gods of luck seemed to be with the new enterprise. The water held out to carry the last stick of timber over the shallowest rapids. Weather feet. All mp and down the river the work went with vim and dash.
 After this happy fashion the drive went until at last it entered the broad, deep and navigable stretches of the river from Bedding to the lake. Here, barring the accident of an eXtraordl- nary flood, the troubles were over. On the broad, placid bosom of the stream the logs would float. As Orde sat in his blackboard, ready to go into town for q first glimpse of Carroll in more than two months. he gazed with an Immense satisfaction over the broad river moving brown and glacierlille as though the logs that covered it were viscid and composed all its substance The enterprise was practically assur- cd of success.
 For awhile now Orde was to have breathing spell A large number of men were here laid off. The remain. der, under the direction of Jim Den ming, would require little or no actual supervision. Until the jam should have reached the distributi:,g booms above Monrovia the affair was very simple. Before he left, however, he called Denning to him.
 "Jim," said he. "I'll be down to see you through the sluiceways at Red ding, of course. But now that you have good, still stretch of river want you to include in our drive all the Heinzman logs from above you possibly can. If you can fix 1t. let their drive drift down into ours"
 "Then we'll have to drive their logs for them," objected Denning.
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