Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-10


 for all the moments of the evening, coolly and deliberately. as he well knew her way, she had been resolved to die. If he had only known it! Un- touched by the contagious malady himself. nevertheless he would have married her if he had had the slight. est inkling of what she contemplated. And yet be knew. furthermore, that hers was a certain stih-kneed pride that would not have permitted her 10 accept marriage as an act of phllan- thropy. There had really been no say. ing her. after all. The love disease had fastened upon her. and she had been doomed from the first to perish of 1t.
 Six thousand spent the winter of 1897 in Dawson. work on the creeks went on apsce. while beyond the pass. es 1t vas reported that one hundred thousand more were waiting for the spring. Late one brief afternoon. Day. light. on the benches between French Hill and Shoolum Hill. caught a wId- CT vision of things Beneath him lay the richest part of Eldorado~ Creek. while up and down Bonanza he could see for miles. It was a scene Of a vast devastation. The hills. to their tops. had been shorn of trees, and their naked sides showed signs Of gor- ing and perforating that even the mantle Of snow could not hide. Be. meath him, in every direction. were h1a rlf Tg.sN men were visible. A blanket of smoke hlied the valleys and turned the gray day to melancholy twilight. Smoke arose from a thousand holes in the snow. where. deep down on bedrock, in the frozen muck ard gravel. men crept and scratched ard dug. and ever built more fires to break the grip of the frost
 Organization was what was needed, hc decided; and his quick imagination slIetehed Eldorado Creek, from mouth to source. and From mountain top to mountain top, in the hands Of one ca. pablo management. Even steam-thaw- ing, as yet untried, but bound to come. be saw would be a makeshift. What should be done was to hydraulic the valley sides and benches, and then, on the creek bottom, to use gold-dredges. There was the very chance for another big killing He had wondered just what was precisely the reason for the Guggenhammers and the big English concerns sending in their high-salaried experts That was their scheme. That was why they had approached him for the sale of worked-out claims and tail lugs They were content to let the small mlne-owners gopher out what they could, for there would be mil lions in the leavings.
 And. gazing down on the smoky in- ferno of crude effort, Daylight outlined the new game he would play, a game in which the Guggenhammers and the rest would have to reckon with him. But along with the delight in the new conception came a weariness. He was tired of the long Arctic years, and he was curious about the oGtside-the great world of which he had heard other men talk and Of which he was as AAll1l dhs d- d NhAEu AElt " ere games out there to play. It was a larger table. and there was no reason why he with his millions should not sit in and take a hand. So 1t was. that afternoon on Skookum Hill, that he resolved to play this last best Klon- dike hand and pull for the Outside. It took time, however. He put trusted agents to work on the heels of great experts. and on the creeks where they began to buy he likewise bought. Wherever they tried to corner a worked-out creek, they found him standing Tn the way, owning blocks of claims or artfully scattered claims that put all their plans to naught
 Followed wars, truces. compromises. victories, and defeats. By 1898, sixty thousand men were on the Klondike, and all their fortunes and affairs rocked back and forth and were at- fected by the battles Daylight fought. And more and more the taste for the larger game urged fin Daylights mouth. Here he was already locked in grap- ples with the great Guggenhammers, and winning. 1ercely winning. Pos sibly the seyerest struggle was waged on Ophlr. the yeriest of moose-pas- lures. whose low-grade dirt was valu- able only because of its vsstness. The ownership Of a block of seven claims in the heart of it gave Daylight his grip, and they could not come to terms. The Guggenhammer experts conclud- ed that it was too big for him to handle. and when they gave him an ul;imatum to that effect he accepted and bought them out The plan was his own. but he sent down to tho States for competent engineers to car " it out. In the RinkaSilly water shed. eighty miles away, he built bis reservoir. and for eighty miles the huge wooden conduit carried the wa ter across Ecamtfy ystoa Onhir s Est mated at three millions. the resefvoir and conduit cost nearer four. Nor did be stop with this. Electric power plants were installed. and his. work iBgs were lighted as well- as run by electricity. Other sordoughs, who had struck 1t rich in excess sof all their dreams shook ths.r heads gleoE