Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-08

Copyright b. chaelss Scsihsss's soos

| NJ CHAPTER ~ IL.
~ Sands Of Pactolus w
II Victor Brouillard had been dis
posed to speculate curiously upon the
possibilities suggested by Mr.. ]. Wes-
ley Cortwright on the occasion Of the
capitalists brief visit to the Niquoia,
there was little leisure, for It. Fairly
confronting his problem, Brouillard
did not find himself hampered by de-
partmental inertia. While he was rap
idly organizing his force for the con-
structive attack, the equipment and
preliminary material for the upbuild-
ing Of the great dam were piling up
by the trainload on the sidetracks at
Quesado. and at once the man and
beast killing task of rushing the exca-
waiting outfit Of machinery, teams,
ssrapers. rock-drilling installations,
steam shovels, and the like. over the
War Arrow tran was begun.
During the weeks which followed,
the same trail, and q little later that
from the Navajo reservation on the
south. we're strung with antlike pro-
cessions Of laborers pouring into the
shut-in valley at the foot Of Mount
Chigrfngo. Almost as II by magic q
populous camp of tents. shelter shacks
and Indian tepees sprang up in the
level bed-bottom of the future lake,,
camphres gave place to mess kitch-
ems; the commissary became q 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 air-drills
the crashings Of the dynamite and the
rattle and chug of the steam shovels
It was after the huge task Of foun
dalton digging was well under way
and the work of constructing the small
power dam in the upper canyon had
been begun that the young chief Of
construction, busy with q thousand
details; had Ais first forcible reminder
Of the continued existence Of Mr.. J
Wesley Cartwright
It came in the form Of q communi
cation from Washington. forwarded by
special post-rider service from Que
sado. and It called . halt upon the up
river n yer project. In accordance
with its settled policy. the reclamation
service would refrain. in the Niquois
AZ elsewhere, from entering into com
petition with private citi1ens: 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 q
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, 1t was to be
Understood that the company was
duly organised under tho 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 It and
the government. field.stan on the
ground were to be entirely friendly.
ITS q graft-a pull-down with q
profit in It 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 q months pay that this
is the fine Italian hand Of Mr.. J. Wes-
ley Cortwright!"
Grisiow's eyebrows went up in
doubtful interrogation.
Ought to know the gentleman?"
he squeried mildly. ~ don't seem to
recall the name"
mo, you don't know him. 1t was
his motor party that was camping at
the Buckskin ford the night we broke
in here the night when we saw the
searchlight"
and you met him? thought you
told me you merely went down and
took look-didn't butt int"
.sI didn't-that night. But tho next
morning they wanted to see the val
ley, and showed them the way in.
Cartwright Is the multimillionaire pork
packer Of Chicago. and he went up
into the air like . runatic over the
moneymaking chances there were to
be in this Job. didn't pay much at
tention to his chortlings Ut the time.
It didn't seem remotely credible that
anybody with real money to invest
would plant It in the bottom of the Nj.
quota reserv,ir."
'But now you think he is going to
make his blum good :"
THAT looks very much like It," said
Brouillard sourly, pointing to the let
ter from Washington. THAT scheme
Is going to change the whole face OF
nature for US up here, Grislow. II
will spell trouble right from the
Jump"
"Oh, I don't know" was the depre
catory rejoinder. ut will relieve Ut
II . lot OF side-issue industries-cut
'em out and bury 'em, so far ais We
are concerned"
THAT part Of 1t is all right. o.
course; but 1t won't end there; not by
! hundred miles. .Jobson says>in thai
letter that the relations have got tt
Be friendly! I'll bet anything you Liz:
that III have to 60 and read the RIO