The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-25

5FO1H II I'm n nom Cle GooE. 14C4S
q aeIogeSitting afr Of the provinces,
on Al t8ose We tcO,1le from there m
% New York. The smaFGest tailou,
the most 5PaFIsla9 modistes cannot dtG-
iodRe IL Il s. the atmosphere OF his
own Iaud rninted into the man, lying
deeper than the cut Of his coat Il
put Jean Balduc up in British Amer
ECa@h1O big, Iank, hard body belonged
I1 the open. q rugged, roomy, primeTal
oDen. HIS EIZht blue eyes were from
remote spruce forests rejected on the
0IImmering snoW-crust- HIS hair was
NAT blue-bIack which the French car
ried ior violent contrast into the white
ECFtk HIS manner and speech were
abrupt and direct
ne demanded an audience with Ran
d6iph Mason. I tried first to get
little history out Of the big fellow
from which to determine the advisable
9ty Of such an audience. got only
rev craggy fragments. He had come
to NeE York 70 even up score with
{ slssael,94. the copper emperor on
He wished TO get at the man within
the 4gt1S79f TIE law. II such thing
was pQss5bIes Is not. he knew another
g Wy Vefy c6fhn40n IA his country and
dIrect-and, 81 NOT productive OF none
tary resultS,-at least the balm OF
Gnead to one'g injured sensIbHities-
He had gone other business to settle
with Barnsdeld (not his own a1afr),
which would require dancing-steps and
truce hags; but, when that was
cleaned up and ended, It would be the
indian cheek on the stock Of the Win
chester and al white hags down.
I took him to Randolph Mason, and
he told his story, walking up and down
the length Of the room and driving.
now ana then, his cIenched right hand
into the palm Of his left for emphasis.
He was from Huron county on the
south shore OF Lake Superior Earlier
he had come from the Jacques Cartier
river n the Dominion He had been
factor In the a6airs Of Huron county:
he knew every man. woman and child
IN Il. every tract Of land. every nook
and conner of It. Three years before
he had made q house-to-house, man+to-
man canvass Of the county for treas
urer. and got It. with majority to.
spare. he had gained, too, the good
viii Of the people, their confidence and
1hRIr hospltable friendship. Then, like
the 4ocu5Es Of.sBIbHcaF record, came
the emissaries of Barnsheld to pur-
chase the mineral rights under all the
lands in the county.
Il was not known that there was
any copper IN Huron county. Indeed,
eminent biologists and practical pros
pectors had long agreed that the coun-
" was barren. These emissaries OF
Barnsfeld explained that he was not
misled about the steri1ity Of the land.
He knew that he was paying out good
money for worthless rock, clay and
gravel; but his plan was to corrupt
the prospecting engineer Of the Great
Lakes Railroad company-have him
secretly report to the company the
existence OF copper in this county
Then he. Barnsfeld, would come gen
erously forward and oHer to transfer
to the railroad the entire mineral
rights Of the county, provided the COM
pany would build line through 1t to
his wharf at Plymouth on the south
shore OF Lake Superior. This would
enable him to load ore from the known
copper regEons directly on cars from
the lake boats at Plymouth, and
shorten the haul to his market by two
hppdTed TpIIes3S -ss-y
This story was gladly swallowed by
= he-na*ives.-They hoped for the COM
ing oeshyFafIroad into the county, as
the adxeLbpof sort OF commercial
Messiah Once or more they had
voted large bond subscriptions to lure
in such an enterprise, but 1t was OF
no avail. Lake Superior remained the |
only path OF commerce.
In a few months these agents had
obtained the mineral rights Of almost
the entire county. A few landowners
along the lake held out against them,
and finally, after exhausting their In
genuity, Barnsdeld's men came to Jean
BaIduc for assistance. They explained
that these landowners were blocking
the prosperity Of the whole people I
The. only chance Of an iron highway
to the south was being elbowed out
Balduc said he would go to these
men and induce them to join In the !
sale. II he were assured from head-
quarters that the railroad plan. would
be carried through. They took him to
Duluth. and to, Barnsaeld. he had
the plan from Barns6eld'S mouth. f49
was shown maps and probes OF the
proposed route. elaborate plans and
specifications OF = great wharf and
warehouses which BarnSAeld expected
TO build at Plymouth when the rail-
road came, drawings for an addition
to the town-lndeed. all the paper de
tails for q city Balduc was intro
duced to the engineer. OF the Great
Lakes Railroad company and read his
report.
BarnsheId talked very frankly. HIS
plan was not phIlanthropic. He would
get back his money In a year from
Iessened shipping rates from the