Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-01-19
CHAPTER vII.-(Continued.)

non master in the freezing-ou process
was an unsolved riddle to many. But
there were reasons. For one, there was
the lease of the coal lands, renewable
year by year-this was Caleb's own
honest provision inserted in the con-
tract for the Majors protection-and
renewable only by the Majors friend
Further, a practical man at the practi-
cal end of an industry is a sheer ne
ressity; and by contriving to have
honest Caleb associated with himself
In the receivership, a fine color of up
rightness was impaired to the promot-
IRIS far-reaching plan of aggrandize-
ment
So. later. when the reorganization
was effected; when the troublesome,
dividend hungry stockholders of the
original company were eliminated by
due process of law, Caleb's name ap-
peared on the Farley slate with the IT,
tie of general manager of the new COM
pany-for the same good and sufficient
reasons.
1t was during the fervid six months
Of Chiawassee Coal and Iron develop
ment that Thomas Jefferson had
passed from the old life to the new
lroIH CnllunOOQ TO DOynOOQ.
simultaneously there were the coal
mines opening under the cliffs Of
Mount Lebanon, the long, double row
Of coking ovens building on the fiat
below the furnace, and the furnace it.
self taking on undreamed- of magni-
tudes under the hands of the army OF
workmen. Thomas Jefferson did hts
best to keep the pace, being driven by
4 new and eager thirst for knowledge
mechanical and of gripping desire to
be present at all the assembling of all
tho complicated parts of the threefold
machine. And when he found it i'm
possible to be in three places at one
and the same moment, it distressed
him to tears
OF the home life during that strenu-
Gus interval there was little more than
the eating and sleeping for one whose
time for the absorbent process was all
too limited. Also. the perplexing ques-
lions reaching down into the under
Soul of things were silent. Also, again
mark of change so radical that
none but Thomas Jefferson may read
md understand-an awe inspiring Ma
jor Dabney had ceased to be the first
citizen of the world, that pinnacle be-
Ing now occupied by a TALL sallow,
smooth faced gentleman, persuasive of
speech and superhuman in accomplish
ment, who was the life and soul of the
activities, and whom his father and
mother always addressed respectfully
Is Colonel" Farley.
One day. in the very heat of the
battle, this commanding parsonage, at
whose word the entire world of Para
disc was in travail, had deigned to
speak directly to him-Thomas Jeffer-
son. 1t was at the mine on the noun
tain. The workmen were boiling into
place the final trestle of the inclined
railway which was to convey the coal
in descending carloads to the bins at
the coke-ovens. and Thomas Jefferson
was absorbing the details as a dry
sponge soaks water.
Making sure that they do it lust |
right, are you, my boy?" said the great |
man, patting him approvingly on the |
shoulder. That's good l like to see |
\ boy anxious to get to the bottom of |
things. Going to be an iron-master.
like your father, are your"
"N-no." stammered the boy "I wisht
wasl"
well, what's to prevent? We are
going to have the completest plant in
the country right here, and it will be a
ine chance for your fathers son; the
finest in the world"
"'Tain't goin' to do me any good"
'aid Thomas Jefferson. dejectedly. Il
got to be a preacher"
Mr.. Duxbury Farley looked down at
m on Ell 10
ION himself, coming to be known ax a
pillar In st. Michaeps Church at South
rredegar. a liberal contributor. and a
prime mover in plan to tear down the
I'D building and to erect a new one
more in keeping with the times and
South Tredegar's prosperity. Yet he
vas careful to draw the line between
'eligion as means of grace and BUSH
less as means of making money.
That is your mothers wish, l sup
'oss; and It's worthy one; very wor-
by. Yet, unless you have a special
'ocation-but there; your mother
doubtless knows best. l am only anx-
Gus to see your fathers son succeed
n whatever he undertakes"
After that, Thomas Jefferson secret
Y made Success his god, and was
lertly ready to fetch and carry for
he high priest in its temple, only the
pportunities were infrequent
For, wide as the Paradise field SEEM
i to be growing from Thomas Jeffer-
,n's point of view, it was altogether
10 narrow for Duxbury Farley. The
-incipal offices of Chiawassee Coal
i'd Iron were in South Tredegar, and
ere the first vice president was
Hiding a hewn-stone mansion. and
d become charter member of the
US fret club; was domiciled In due
rm. and was already beginning to
item his final rs" and to speak of
nself ~ q Simultaneously adoption.
so sped the winter and the spring