Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-08-01

liAlSN LAG VAllSyS5 AND tuTneQ the BE6ys
day 70 melancholy twiligh 1T. Smoke
arose from 4 thousand holes III Inc
snow, where, deep down on bedrock
IN the frozen muck and gravel, men
crept and scrat ched and dug, and ever
built more fires to break the grip Of
the frost. 8S MS
ganizat ton vas what was needed.
he decided: and his quick imagination
ssketched Eldorad Dis Creek. from mouth
to- source. and from mountain top to-
mountain top, in The hands Of one ca
pable management. Even stean-t haw.
ing, as vet untried. but bound to come
he saw would be q make hift. 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 Tor another
big killing. He had wondered just
what was precisely the reason for the
SGuggenhaInmers and the big EngIiahs
concerns sending in sheir igh.salarieds
experts. That was their schema. That
was why they had app preached him for
the sale of work out claims and tail
ings They were content to let the
small minesowners gopher out what
they could for there would BE mill
lions II the leavings
And, gazing down on the smoky In
ferno ofScrude effort Daylight outlined
the new game he would play, q game
I'm which the Gugg enhammers and the
rest would have to reckon with him.
But along with the delight III the new
conception came q WEAKNESS, 4 He was
tired Of the long Arctic years, ana ne
was curious about the Outsid the
great worid OF which he had heard
other men talk and Of which he was
tas ignorant as a child. There were
games out there to plat was ii
larger table, and there Was 40 reason
why he with HIS mil lions should not
SIT In and take d hand. SO It was,
that afternoon on slCokum Hill, that
he resolved to play this last best Kion-
dixie hand and pull for the Outside II
took time however. IIe put trusted
tagents 70 work on the heels Of great
experts, and on the creeks where they
began to buy he likewise bought.
Wherever they tried It'd corner 4
WorEed;ou creek, they found him
lSstanding IN the way. owning blocks Of
Eclaims or artfulIy altered chains
THAT put all their pIans to- naught.
M Followed warl. truces. compromises,
!, vict3ries, and defeata BY 1875, sixty
thousand men were on the Kiondike,
Land all their; fortunes and aflaira
rocked back and forth and were at.
fected by the battles Daylight fought,
And more and more the taste for the
larger game urgedi In Daylfghf's mouth,
Here he was. already locked in Crap
Pies With the great Guggenhammers.
and winning. fiercely winning Pos.
sibly the seyerest struggle was waged
on Ophir the veriest OF moosespas
lures whose Iow-grade dirt was Yalti.
able only because Of IT'S vastness. The
Ownership Of 8 block Of seven claims
IN the heart Of 1t gave Daylight his
1 grip. and they could not come to terms
i The Gnggenhammer experts concind
ed that IT was too big for him "a
handle. and when they gave him an
i ultimatnm to that eject he accepted
\ and bought them out The plan was
i his own, but he sent down to- the
States for competent engineers to car
/ ~ it ont. IA the Rinkabiiiy water
shed eighty miles away. he built his
reservoir. ana Tor eighty miles The
\ huge wooden conduit carried the wa
4 ter across country To- EOphtr Est
mated ait three mill ions the reservoir