The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-30

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more than equal what was left behind
Organization what was needed he decided and
his quick imagination sketched Eldorado Creek from
mouth to source and from mountain top to mountain
top in the hands of one capable management Even
steam thawing, yet untried but bound to come he
saw would be makeshlft What should be done
was TO hydraulic the valley sides and benches, and
then on the creek bottom use gold dredges such as
be had heard described as operating in California
There was the very chance for another big killing
He had wondered just what was precisely the reason
Tor Hammersmith and the big English concerns send
ing in their high salaried experts That was their
scheme That was why they had approached him
Tor The sale of worked out claims and taings They
were content TO LET the small mine owners gopher
out what they could for there would be millions in
the eavings
And gazing down on the smoky Inferno Of crude
effort Daylight outlined the new game he would pav
a game in which Hammersmith and The rest ygouid
have to reckon with him. But along with the delight
III Inc new conception came WEAKNESS. He was
Tired OF the long Arctic years ard he was curions
about the Outsde-the great world Of which he had
heard other men talk and of which he was as igDo-
rant as child There were games out there 10 plav
1t was a larger table and there was no reason why
ne with his millions, should not sit in and take a
hand SO ii was that afternoon on SkoOkum HIN
that he resolved to play this last best Kondke hand
and pull for the Outside
work on the heels Of great experts and on the creeks
where they began TO buy he likewise bought Wbar-
ever teey tried 10 corner 4 worked out creek they
found him standing in the way, owning blocks OF
claims or artfuly scattered claims that put an their
plans 10 naught
play you-ail wide open TO wln-am rightY' he
told them once in heated conference
Followed wars truces compromises victories and
ueIedts. by IStS sixty thousand men were on the
hohuAe ana all ther fortunes and affairs rocked back
ahu iorth ana were affected by the battles Daylight
and FF4ppa he
game urged IN Daylights mouth Here he was already
locked III Srapples with the great Hammersmitbs and
winning Hereby winning Possibly the severest strur
gle was Waged Ophr the yeriest of Moose nast1raS
whose low grade dirt was valuable only bec9Usa Of
Its Yastness The ownership of a block of seven
Claims IN the heart Of il gave Daylight his grin and
they could not come 10 terms. The Hammersmifb
experts concluded that il was too big for him 10
handle, ana when they gave him an utimatum 10
that effect be accepted and bought them ont
. me pan was his own, but he sent down 10 the
states Tor competent engineers TO carry il out In
the Itlnkabilly watershed eighty miles awav he
DuIt his reservoir, and for eighty miles the hinge
wooden conduit carried the water across country TO
Ophf. Estimated at three millions the reservor and
conduit cost four Nor did he ston win this
Electric power plants installed and his work
lngs were lighted as well as run by electricity Other
souYdoughs who had struck il rich in excess of an
their dreams shook their heads eHsomiy warned him
that he would 90 broke and declined to invest in so
eXiraYagant venture. But Daylight smiled and
sold out the remainder Of his town site holdings
de sold at the right time the height Of the pacar
DOOM When he prophesied to his old crones in
the Moosehorn saloon that within five wears town
Iots IN Dawson could not be given away while the
CABINS would be chopped up for fTeWO0d he was
laughed al r0undly and assured that the mother lode
would be found ere that time. But he Uenr ahead
when his need for lumber was finished selling ont
his saWmls as we'll Likewise he began to get rid of
MS scattered holdings on The various creeks and
without thanks TO any he finished his conduit
bult his dredgeS, imported his machinery and made
the gold OF Ophir Immediately accessible And no
he had ag
from Indian River and threaded the silent wilder
ness, his dogs packing Indian fashion himself living
indian fashion on straight moose meat now heard
the hoarse whistles calling bis hundreds of Igborar,
TO work, and watched them toll under the white glare
OF the are lamps.
But having dsne the thing he was ready to depart.
And when he let the word go out the Hammersmitbs
We'd with the English concerns and witt a new
French company in bidding for Ophir ana all ifs
plant The Hammersmths bid highest and the
price they paid netted Daylight clean million II
was current rumor that he was worth anywhere
from twenty 10 thirty millions. But he alone kDayv
just how he stood and that with his last claim sold
aud the table swept clean of his winnings he had
hidden his bunch TO the tune Of just a trihe over
eleven millions
His departure a thing that passed into the
history of the Yukon along with his other deeds
All the Yukon was his guest Dawson the seat Af the
festiyty On that one last night no mans dust save
his own was good. Drinks were not to be purchased
Every saloon ran open, with extra relays OF exhaust
ed bartenderS, and the drinks were given away
paying found dozen fights on his hands The veri.
est chechaquos rose up TO defend the name of Day-
light from such insult. And through il I'll on moe.
casined feet moved Daylight. herOarinc BURNING
Daylight. overspilling with good nature and cana
raderie, bowling his he-wolf howl and claiming the
night as his, bending mems arms down on the bars
performing eats of strength his brOnzed face flushed
with drink his black eyes flashing. clad in oyerals
and blanket coat. his earfaps dangling ana his saun
leted mittens swinging from the cord across the
shoulders But this time il was neither AN ante nor
a stake that he threw away, but a mere marker in
the game that he who held so many markers would
not miss.
As night it eclipsed anything that Dawson had
ever seen. 1t was Dayght's desire to make 1t mem
orabe. and his attempt Il success A goodlv nor
ton OF Dawson got drunk that night The fall wealth
er was on, and though the freeze-up OF the Yukon
still delayed the thermometer was down TO twenty
five below zero and falling. Wherefore il was nee
eSSary 10 organize gangs Of life savers who patroed
the streets TO pick up drunken men from where they
fell in the snow and where hours sleep would be
fatal Daylight, whose within il was to make them
drunk by hundreds and by thousands was the one
who initiated this life saving. He wanted Dawson
TO have Its night but in his deeper processes never
careless nor wanton he TO IL that it was night
without accident. And, like his oden nights his
ukaSe went forth that there should be no Quarreinc
or nghting, offenders 10 be dealt with by him Der.
sonally. Nor did he have to deal with any Hun
dIeds OF devoted followers 10 ii that the evil
disposed were rolled in the snow and hustled off Ia
bed In the great world, when great captains of in
dustry die All wheels under their erstWhe manage
ment are stopped for minute. But in the KlOndike
such was its hilarious sorrow at the departure of its