The Green Forest tribune., 1916-04-21
sCHAPTER IV-Continued.

AE IUIlQS Iu0 WSCho WIiSh AOiAON NN' tho same trail, and little later that from the Navajo reservation on the south, were strung with antlike pro- sessions of laborers pouring into the shut-in valley at the foot of Mount Chigringo Almost as if by magic a populous camp of tents, shelter shacks and Indian tepees sprang up in the level bed bottom of the future lake; campfres gave place to mess kitch- ems: the commissary became a busy department store stocked with every thing that thrifty or thriftless labor might wish to purchase; and daily the great foundation scorings in the but tressing shoulders of Jacks mountain and Chigringo grew deeper and wider under the churning of the airdrills, the crashings of the dynamite and the rattle and chug of the steam shovels.
 It was after the huge task of foun- dation digging was we'll under way andsthe work of constructing the small power dam in the upper canyon had been begun that the young chief of construction, busy with thousand details, had his first forcible reminder of the continued existence of MT. J. Wesley Cartwright.
 It came in the form of a communi- cation from Washington, forwarded by special post-rider service from Que sado, and it called halt upon the up- river power project. In accordance with it's settled policy, the reclamation Service would refrain, in the Niquoia as elsewhere, from entering into com petition with private citizens; would do nothing to discourage the invest ment of private capital. A company had been formed to take over the power production and to establish a plant for the manufacture of cement, and Brouillard was instructed to gov ern himself accordingly. For his in- Formation, the department letter writer went on to say, it was to be Understood that the company was duly organized under the provisions of an act of congress; that it had bound Itself to furnish power and material at prices satisfactory to the service; and that the relations between 1t and the government field-staff on the ground were to be entirely friendly.
 Its a graft-a pull-down with a profit in 1t for some bunch of money leeches little higher up!" was the young chiefs angry comment when he had given Grislow the letter to read.
 Without knowing any more of the details than that letter gives, I'd be willing to bet months pay that this as the fine Italian hand of MT. J. Wes- ley Cartwright"
 Grislow's eyebrows went up in doubtful Interrogation.
 s Ought I to know the gentleman ?" he queried mildly. q don't seem to recall the name."
 No, you don't know him. It was his motor party that was camping at the Buckskin ford the night we broke m here-the night when we saw the searchlight."
 . And you met him? I thought you Sold me you merely went down and took look-didnt butt in?"
 q T didn't-that night. But the next morning they wanted to see the val ley, and l showed them the way in. Cortwright is the multimillionaire pork packer of Chicago, and he went up into the air like a lunatic over the moneymaking chances there were to sbe in this job. I didn't pay much at- fention to his chortlings at the time. If didn't oJx anybody with real money to invest would plant it in the bottom of the Mi Quoia reservoir
 ut now you think he is going to ma e his bluff good?"
 That looks very much like it." said brouillard sourly, pointing to the let ter rom Washington. That scheme IS going to change the whole face of nature for us up here, Grislow. It will spell trouble right from the jump."
 Oh, l don't know" was the depre- catory rejoinder. Tt will relieve us or lot of side-issue industries-cut 'em out and bury 'em, so far as we are concerned"
 mat part of it is all right oe course; but it won't end there: not by e hundred miles, Jobson says in that ietter that the relations have got to De friendly! I'll bet anything you like that I'll have to go and read the riot ace to those people before they've neen twenty-four hours on their job!"
 Srlsiow was trying the pokt of his