Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-17
CHAPTER Iv-continued.

During the weeks which followed.
the same trail, and little later that
from the Navajo reservation on the
south. were strung with antlike pro
ressions of laborers pouring into the
shut-in valley at the foot of Mount
Chigringo. Almost as IL by magic a
populous camp of tents. shelter shacks
and Indian tepees sprang up in the
level bed-bottom OF the future lake;
campfires gave place to mess kitch-
ems; the commissary became a busy
department store stocked with every.
thing that thrifty or thriftiess 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.
Il was after the huge task OF foun.
dation 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 a thousand
details. had his first forcible reminder
OF the continued existence OF Mr.. J.
Wesley Cortwright
II came In the form OF a communi-
cation from Washington. forwarded by
special post-rider service from Que
sado, and II called a halt upon the up
river power project In accordance
with its 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 oi
an act of congress; that It had bound
itself to furnish power and materia
at prices satisfactory to the service
and that the relations between it ant
the government fleld-staff on thi
ground were to be entirely friendly
It's a graft--a pull-down with I
profit in II for some bunch Of none,
leeches a little higher upl" was tn,
young chiefs angry comment when h,
had given Grislow the letter to read
Without knowing any more of tn,
details than that letter gives, I'd b,
willing to bet a months pay that thi
is the fine Italian hand of Mr.. J. Yves
ley Cortwrightl"
Grislow's eyebrows went up il
doubtful Interrogation.
Ought | to know the gentleman |?
he queried mildly. Il don't seem t,
recall the name"
mo. you don't know him. Il wa
HIS motor party that was camping a
the Buckskin ford the night we brolx
in here-the night when we saw tn
searchlight."
And you met him? | thought yo,
told me you merely went down an,
took look--didnt butt in2"
Il didn't-that night. But the mex
morning they wanted to see the va
ley. and showed them the way lr
Cortwright is the multimillionaire por
packer of Chicago. and he went u
into the air like a lunatic over tn
mCneymaking chances there were /
be in this Job. ! didn't pay much a
tention to his chortlings at the tim,
II ditn't seem remotely credible tbs
anybody with real money to inves
would plant II In the bottom of the N
quota reservoir"
But now you think be is going
make his blum good1" h.
THAT looks very much like H." sal
Brouillard sourly. pointing to the lie
ter from Washington. That schem
is going TO change the whole face {
nature for us up here. Grislow.
will spell trouble right from Il
jump"
"Oh. don't know" was the depr
'catory rejolnder 1T will relieve I
OF a lot OF side-issue industries-c,
EN- out and bury 'em. so far as '
are concerned"
That part of Il is all right,
course: but Il won't end there: not
a hundred miles. Jobson says in tn
letter that the relations have got
be friendlyl Ill bet anything you III
that I'll have to go and read the ri
act TO those people before they
been twenty-four hours on their job
Grislow was trying the point of /