The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-17

he decided: and his quic'- i~;NgtaGtion
s!ietcneC EldOradu Cree, tfOm mouth
to source, and from nOu2t2!, TOP ID
mountain top, in the haN&5 @! ere e.
pab,e manageMent Eyoo 81. .,rGr.
irG, as yet uutriad. but bounG IL .ua...
he saw would be nGkcs; 1T. r.s..t
shouli be Gone vas 70 hyG.ui'3. -
valley sides and benches, and tCer, or
the creek lotion, 70 use 60,1-CrClgcs.
There was the yecy cnance ing anouiar
blG killing. lie had wondered fn.t
what was precisely the reason tor the
GuggenhamMcrS and the biE 'ng.lsh
concerns sCLCing in their uiah-sfii,.:et
experts. That was their scheme. nat
was why they had approached him l0-
the sale OF wOrked-Ou claims and t,.i.-
inss. They We"e cOnteM; t. let the
small mlne-owners gopher cat whnc
they could, for there would be Il H.
lions In the !2avil3s.
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 Outside-the
great world Of which he had heard
other men talk and of which he was
as ignorant as child. There were
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 hand. So 1t was.
that afternoon OF Skookum Hill, that
he resolved to play this last best Klon.
dixie 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 In the way, owning blocks OF
claims or artful!y 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 ar.
fected by the battles Daylight fought.
And more and more the taste for the
larger game urged in Daylight's mouth.
Here he was already locked In grap-
pies with the great Guggenhammers.
and winning, f1ercely winning. Pos
slbiy the severest struggle was waged
on Ophir, the veriest Of moose-pas-
lures, whose low-grade dirt was valu-
able only because Of it's vastness. The
ownership OF block OF seven claims
IN the heart Of It gave Daylight his
grip. and they could not come to terms.
The Guggenhammcr experts conclud.
ed that 1t was too big for him to
handle, and when they gave him an
ultimatum to that effect he accepted
and bought them cut. The plan was
his own, but be sent down to the
States for competent engineers to car.
ry 1t out. In the Rinkabilly water
shed. eighty miles away, he built his
reservoir, and for eighty miles the
huge wooden condIit carried the wa
ter across country to Ophir. Esti.
mated at three millions, the reservoir
and conduit cost nearer four. Nor
did he stop with this. Electric power
plants were installed. and his work
1ngs were lighted as we'll as run by
electricity. Other sourdoughs, who
had struck II rich in excess of all
their dreams, SHOOK their heads gloom.
lily. warned him that he would go
broke, and declined to invest in so ex-