Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-05

GU lhdl ~ was TOO big Tor hln to
handle, and when they gave him an
ultsmatum to that effect he accepted
AMI bought them out. arhe plan was
his own, but he seI6 down TO the
States for eompeten. engineers to car
~ 1t out. liz the Rinkabilly water
shed, eighty miles away, he built his
reservoir, and for eighty miles the
huge wooden conduit 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 We're installed, and his work
ings We're lighted as well as run by
electricity Other sourdoughs, who
hau struck 1t rich In excess Of all
their dreams, shook their heads gloom.
lily, warned him that he would 90
broke. and declined to invest in so ex.
travagant a venture. But DAYLIGHT
smiled, and sold out the remainder OF
his town-site holdings He sold ait the
right time. at the height of the placer
boom. When he prophesied to his old
cronies, In the Moosehorn Saloon. that
within i've years town lots in Dawson
could not be given away, while the
cabins would be chopped up for fire.
wood, he was laughed at roundIy. and
assured that the motherhood would
be found ere that time. But he went
ahead. when his need for lumber was
finished, selling out his sawmilIs as
we'll. Likewise, he began to get rid
or his scattered holdings ON the yari-
Gus creeks. and without thanks to any
one he finished his conduit, built his
dredges, imported his machinery and
made the gold of Ophir Immediately
accessible. And he, who five years
before had crossed over the divide
from Indian River and threaded the
silent wilderness, his dogs packing In
dian fashion. himself living Indian
fashion on straight moose meat, now
heard the hoarse whistles calling his
hundreds of laborers to work, and
watched them toll under the white
glare of the arc-Iamps.
But having done the thing, he was
ready to depart And when he let the
word go out, the Guggenhammer
We'd with the English concerns and
with new French company in bid
ding for Ophir and all its plant The
Guggenhammers bid highest, and the
price they paid Melted Daylight a clean
million. 1t was current rumor that no
was worth anywhere from twenty to
thirty millions. But he alone knew
lust how he stood. and that, with his
last claim sold and the table swept
clean of his winnings, he had ridden
bis bunch to the tune OF Just triiie
over eleven millions.
His departure was a thing that
passed into the history of the Yukon
along with bis other deeds. All the
Yukon was his guest, Dawson the
seat of the festivity. On that one
last night no mans dust save his own
was good Drinks were not to be pur-
chased. Every saloon ran open, with I
extra relays of exhausted bartenders. |
and the drinks We're given away. A /
man who refused this hospitality, and |
persisted in paying, found dozen |
fights on his hands. The yeriest /
rose up to defend the
name or Daylight from such insult.
And through it all, on moccasined feet,
moved Daylight, hell-roaring Burning
Daylight overspilling with good ma
ture and camaraderie. bowling his he
wolf howl and claiming the night as
his, bending mems arms down on the
bars, performing feats OF strength, his
bronzed face flushed with drink, his
black eyes flashing. clad in overaIls
and blanket coat. his ear-fiaps dang
ing and his gauntleted mittens swing.
ng from the cord across the should
srs. But this time it was neither an
ante nor stake that he threw away.
1ut mere marker In the game that
lie who held so many markers would
cot miss.
GRO BE CoNTINUED)