The Huttig news., 1914-08-15
The Lend 0f Broken Prom

tated to open Up the Way to tne leaa; we got month, maybe less, to get to the bottom of this; and then the hills will be lousy with rebels. If they's nothing here. we want to find out about 1t quick and skip-and if we strike it, by grab, they aint enough red d-faggers in Sonora to pry me loese from it. So show these hombres where to work and we'll be up against l rock by the end of the week"
 The original Eagle Tail tunnel had been driven into the side of a steep hill; so steep, in fact, that the loose shale stretched in long shoots from the base of the frowning porphyry dikes that crowned the tops of the hills to the bottom of the canyon. On either side of the discovery guleh sharp ridges, perforated by the gopher holes of tke Mexieans and the ancient workings of the Spaniards, ran di- rectly mp the hill to meet the contact. But it was against the face of the big ridge itself that Kruger had driven his drift and exploded his giant blast of dynamite, and the whole slope had been altered and covered with slide of rock
 Against this slide in the days when they were marking time, Bud and his pardner had directed their energies, throwing the loose stones aside. build ing up walls against the slip, and clearing the way to the solid schist. There, somewhere beneath the tumble of powder-riven rock, lay the ledge which, if they found it. would make them rich; and now with single jack and drill. they attacked the last huge fragments. blasting them into pieces and greveling deeper until they could strike the contact. where the schist and porphyry met and the gold spray had spewed up between.
 It was slow work; slower than they had thought, and the gang of Mexi- cans that they had hired for muckers } were marvels of ineptitude. Left to themselves, they accomplished noth- ) ing, since each problem they encoun- tered seemed to present to them some element of insuperable difficulty to solve which they either went into eau } GUS or waited for the boss. Mean. l while they kept themselves awake by l smoking cigarettes and telling stories } about Bernardo Bravo
 5 To the Mexicans of Sonora Bernardo a | Bravo was the personification of al < the malevolent quahties-he being
 bandit chief who had turned first gen erai and then rebel under Madero- I fbo fao fbaf hn had at la , driven out of Chihuahua and therefore over into Sonora, made his malevo lence all the more imminent
 Undoubtedly. somewhere over to the east, where the Sierras lowered like a blue wall, Bernardo and his outlaw followers were gathering for raid , and tlrse raid would bring death to So nora.
 He was a bad man, this Bernardo Brave. and if half of the current sto- ries were true, he killed men when ever they failed to give him money .and was mever too hurried to take a fair daughter of the country up behind him, provided she took his fancy. 1 Yes. surely he,was bad man-but tha did not clear away the rock.
 Tor the. first week Phil took charge of s.the gang, urging. directing and ca jolin them,. and the work went mer rily on. though rather slowly. The 1 Mexs,ans liked to work for Don Felipe he w.ss so polite and spoke such good Spanish: but at the end of the week it developed that Bud could get more | results out of them.
 { Every time Phil started to explain l anything to one Mexican all the oth .ers stopped to listen to him, and tha1 took time But Buds favorite way o directing a man was by grunts ant signs and bending his own back tt the task Also, he refused to under | stand Spanish, and cut off all long winded explanations and suggestions by an impatient motion to go to work which the trabajadores obeyed witf shrugs.and grins.
 So Don Felipe turned powder-mar ant blacksmith, sharpening up tht dr lie at the little forge they had fash 10 ned alM loading the holes with dy ntmte when 1t became necessary tt ] break a rock, while Bud bossed tht
 
 1 unwilling MeSl-ans.
 In an old turtnel behind their ten they set heavy gate, and behind i they stored their precious powder Then came the portable forge and ths blaclt imith shen, just. inside the moutl of the c;we, and the tent backed III agai.n it for prdection For if there is atY one tldng, next to horses tha A the J-ebels are wont to steal 1t is gi;nt, powder to blow up>culyerts with or stc, lay on the counters of timorous COT try merchants and friglASn then inh making contributions.
 Us for their horses. Bud kept then be |, and hobh'ed close to the house an i 10 one ever saw him without hi' pi n. In the imor4'fng, when he got up lr to ok it from under his pillow ant i k.ans it on his Selt. and there If5 ,tayoIf until bedtinA'.$ r He also kept shrp watch on th' trail above and below, and what fer