The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-04-06

ooiioDiy iehhsIdteu IN MS rights as the
sole owner of the Little Susan" The
answer had come promptly and # was
explicit. only by the repayrnent ~
such sums as had been actually ex.
pended in the reorganization and On
the betterments-for the modernizing
machinery and improvements-and the
voluntary surrender, by the other mar.
ties to the agreement, of the stock in
dispute" the lawyer had written; and
Brouillard had smiled at the thought
or Cartwright voluntarily surrendering
anything which was once we'll within
the grasp of his pudgy hands.
Failing to start the legal wedge,
Brouillard had dipped-also without
consulting Massingale-into the mat
ter of land titles. The Little Susan"
was legally patented under the land
laws, and Massingale's title, if the
mine were located upon government
land, was without a flaw. But on a
former reclamation project Brouillard
had been brought in contact with some
OF the curious title litigation growing
out OF the old Spanish grants; and in
at least one instance he had seen a
government patent invalidated there
by.
AS a man in reasonably close touch
with his superiors in Washington, the
chief of construction knew that there
was a Spanish grant involvement
which had at one time threatened to
at least delay the Niquoia project. How
it had been settled finally he did not
know; but after the legal failure he
had written to mana college class
mate of his own-in the bureau of land
statistics, asking for data which would
enable him to locate exactly the Nj
quoia-touching boundaries of the great
Coronida grant. To this letter no re-
ply had as yet been received Brouil-
lard had cause to know with what
slowness a simple matter of informa-
ton can ooze out of department bu-
reau. The letter-which, after all,
might contain nothing helpful-lin-
gered on the way, and the crisis, the
turning point beyond which there.
could be no redemption in a revival of
the speculative craze. had arrived.
Brouillard took up the draft of the
Washington telegram and read it over
He was cooler now, and he saw that it
was only as it came from the hand of
a traitor, who could and would DELHI
erately wreck the train of events it
might set il motion, that it became
betrayal. Writing as the commanding
officer in the field, he had restated the
facts-facts doubtless well known in
the department-the probability that
congress would intervene and the hold
the opposition was gaining by the sus-
pension of the work on the dam. If
the work could be pushed energetically
and at once, there was a possibility
that the opposition would become dis
couraged and voluntarily withdraw.
Would the department place the men
and the means instantly at his dis
posal?
"If I were the honest man I am
supposed to be, that is precisely the
message l ought to send" he unused
refectively. 1T is only as the crooked
devil in possession of ne will drive me
to nullify tie eff;rt and make it of no
effect that it becomes a crime; that
and the fact that 1 can never be sure
that the Cartwright gang hasn't the
inside track and will not win cut in
spite of all efforts. That is the touch
st;ne of the whole degrading bust
ness. l am afraid Cartwright has the
inside track. If could only get lit
tie clear-sighted daylight on the damn
able tangled"
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.)