The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-02-17

critically nt the speech ana dolngs OF |
many places
Also, nowhere is there a stronger |
prejudice against any manifestation OF |
personal superiority, any exploitation |
of what may lie east of the Cascades |
To them the man and the place are
one-East and Fastener
They felt for him that contempt
which only the seasoned feel for the
inexperienced, And with the quick
nnes which was his characteristic, the
new owner sensed the feeling amoug
them. II only added to that tumble OF
! sensations and impressions which had
| crowded thick upon him from the first
and wnich he had had no time 20
assert and get under control. He had
simply laid them away for future at.
tention.
In the meantime he went quickly at
the work OF settling himself in the
new environment. A load of lumber
was brought up the slough on the
punt from the mill at Toledo and four
men were put to building a small Of
| fee. II was set at the edge of the
| slough. a bit below the cook-shack,
where II commanded from its two asst.
ern windows and door the track, the
roading donkey. the log-trail and the
rollway, and from the southern one
the winding slough. the rest OF the
track and the lower rollway. where
the donkey engine left the logs. its
duty done. After that they rolled
| down with much splashing to the mar
row ribbon of water which. with ev.
cry food tide backed in from the bay.
! lifted them high and trundled them
grinding and groaning, slowly down
| perhaps to the mill at Toledo. perhaps
to be laced together with mammoth
chains, built into great raft and
towed out to the ocean to voyage
along the coast, down to southern Cal
ifornia or up to Portland A tiny
wheezy tug fused about the backwa
ter for the express purpose of starting
the monster RATS out on the ebb
Inside the new Office were installed
a roll-top desk. case of books. a map
or two and several chairs. beside a
small stove. Here. with the four pine
walls around him. Walter Ssndry at
last looked around and called himself
at home The drawers OF the new
desk were full OF documents and mem.
oranda. the history, with statistics and
records down to the minutest detail.
of the Dillingworth Lumber company.
These he set himself to master as his
first step toward the vast golden goal
OF the dream that had brought him
west.
Very shrewdly he decided to take
nothing out OF the capable hands OF
his foreman. There had been a sort OF
tense pause in the camp pending this
development. When II became appar.
ent that things we're to go on as
usual the work went forward as II
"a line had been loosened
Big John Daily had gone about dur.
ing the few days of uncertainty with
the unruffied calm of his quiet nature
though there was a small. a very small
ache somewhere inside him Ever
since he could remember. his life had
been cast in Dailys lumber camp
when his father. old John Daily, had
logged with oxen on the eastern slopes
of the Coast range and there was no
jerkwater railroad In to Yaquina bay
When 200foot fir had tottered out
of line and sent the old man forever
into silence In the roaring thunder OF
its fall. the boy John. at seventeen.
had picked up the reins of government
i'm the camp and carried on the work.
aDetted and aided by that efficient
general. his mother With the years
of his young manhood he had worked.
following the wilderness as progress
pushed II backward TO the bay. seeing
little OF the outside world save per.
haps for trip. once in three years. TO
Portland or down TO San Francisco.
and always during the past II had been
the Dillingworth Lumber company
into whose vast holdings the camp had
cut it's way
Always there had been no hand OF
power in the hills save his own. no
supervision excepting the annual visits
of some member of the firm who went
over things. nodded, estimated took
figures and went away. He had car
ried on his camp himself fought since
. be could remember with the yellow
Pines company, whose holdings were
vast as those of thc Dillingworth. and
2 had not thought of change.
!. When Walter Sandry settled quietly
3 down with no voice in the doings o
I the camp, Daily drew a good breath
!, and went ahead once more.
As for the new timber magnate. h'
a sat down at the new desk on the frs
e day OF his occupancy of the little Office
e on the slough's edge and wrote his
e first letter.
II was on a printed letterhead:
4 Dilllngworth Lumber Company.
Toledo, Oregon.
Dear Dad; Excelsiorl I fancy I'm OF
l. top Of the worldl Wish you could step II
2 here for an hours chat The countr,
q would amaze you as II has me with Ia
mighty bgness You feel like an atom