Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-13
CHAPTER Xv-(Continued)


 A good volume still poured down to the fall, but it was so far reduced that work became possible.
 Now. boysr' cried Orde. Lively while we've got the chance"'
 The twenty-SiX foot logs 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 sawhorses and piled them also for possible future use and blocked the temporary chan nel. The river, restored to its imme- mOrial channel by these men who had so nonchalantly turned it aside. roared on. Orde and his crew tramped back to the falls and gazed on their handi- work with satisfaction. Instead of plunging over an edge into turmoil of foam and eddles. now the water flowed smoothly, almost without a break. over an incline of thirty de grees.
 Logs II slip over that slick as a gun barrel" said Tom North.
 Quite cheerfully they took up their long, painstaking 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 singuarly amenable. The skirmlsh 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 rhe young mans side. Orde's crew built new sluiceway and gate far enough down to assure a good head in the pond above.
 In September the crew had worked down as far as Bedding. leaving be hind them a 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 wolSd fence the principal shoals from the channel.
 He stayed overnight with his par ents and took the train for Monrovia 10 meet Newmark.
 Hello, Joe" greeted Orde. his teeth flashing in contrast to the tan of his face. "l'm done. Anything new since you wrote last?"
 Newmark had acquired his articles of incorporation and sold his stock. Perhaps his task had in 1t as much of difficulty as Orde's tanning of the river Certainly he carried it 10 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 q note at 10 per cent for his proportion of the stock. Newmark then borrowed tif- 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. 1t left the company with obligations of Sl,J00 year in interest. expenses which would run heavily into the thousGnd and an obligation to make good outside stock worth at par exactly $40,0OO In addi. tion Orde had charged against his ac- count burden of $2.000 year inter- est on his personal debt. To offset these liabilities, outside the river im- provements and equipments, which would hold little or no value in case of failure. the firm held contracts to de. liver about l000O0.0O0 feet of logs After some discussion the partners de cided to allow themselves $2,500 apiece by way of salary.
 "The only point that is at all risky to me" said Newmark, "is that we have only one season contracts. If for any reason We hang up the drive or fail to deliver promptly we're going 10 get left the year following, and then it's b-u-s-t-bust."