The Green Forest tribune., 1916-04-14

"Yes; there is coal, of sort; good enough for the cement kilns. For power we shall utilize the river. There is another small canyon at the head of the valley where a temporary dam can be built which will deliver power enough to run anything-an entire manufacturing city if we had one"
 No chance for a man to get the thin edge of wedge in anywhere" lameDted the money-maker despair ingly. Then his eye lighted upon the graybeard dump of solitary mine high up on the face of Mount Chi gringo. Whats that up there?" he demanded.
 Tt is a mine," said Brouillard, show ing Miss Cartwright how to adjust the | feldglass for the shorter distance | Two men named Massingale, father and son, are working it, I'm told" And then again to Miss Genevieve That | is their ca 6in-or the trail a little to the right Of the tunnel opening"
 q see it quite plainly" she returned. Two people are just leaving it to ride down the path-a man and a woman, l think, though the woman--if it is a woman-is riding on a mans saddle" Brouillard's eyebrows went up in a little arch of surprise. Harding, the typographical engineer who had made all the preliminary surveys and had spent the better part of the former summer in the Niquoia, had reported on the Massingales, father and son. and his report had conveyed hint of pos sible antagonism on the part of the mine owners to the government prof ect. But there had been no mention | of woman
 ''The Massingale mine, eh?" broke 1 in the appraiser of values crisply. l They showed us some ore specimens from that property while we were stop ping over in Red Butte. It's rich good and plenty rich-if they have the | quantity. And somebody told me they had the quantity, too; only it was too 1 far from the railroad-couldn't jack freight it profitably over the Timan- yonis."
 "In which case it is one of many" Brouillard said, taking refuge in the generalities.
 But MT. Cartwright was not to be so easily diverted from the pointed par ticulars-the particulars having to do with the pursuit of the market trail.
 "I'm beginning to get my feet on bottom, Brouillard," he said, dropping the courtesy prefix and showing his fat hands deep into the pockets of the dustcoat. There's a business propo- sition here, and it looks mighty good to me. 1 tell you, can smell money in this valley of yours-scads of it. !"
 Brouillard laughed. "It is only the fragrance of future reclamation serv- ice appropriations" he suggested. There will be good bit >of money spent here before the Buckskin desert gets it's maiden wetting."
 'I don't mean that at all," was tae impatient rejoinder. "Let me show you: you are going to have a popula- tlon or some : sort. -ll1a.t mats tsosih.sf siff 2. Then you're going to need cement, lumber and steel. It can be manufac- tured right here on the spot.'
 The cement and the lumber can be produced here, but not the steel" Brouillard corrected.
 That's where you're off," snapped the millionaire. There are fine ore beds in the Hophras and pretty good quality of coking coal Ten or twelve miles of narrow-gauge railroad would dump the pig metal into the upper end or your valley, and there you are With small reduction plant you could tell the big steel people to go hang"
 "Unquestionably But this is a case of can't-help-it," Brouillard argued. You couldn't begin to interest private capital in any of those industries you | speak of."
 Why not?" was the curt demand.
 Because when the dam is complet- ed and the spillway gates are closed, the Niqoyastcadje and everything in it will go down under two hundred feet of water"
 ''The-what" queried Miss Cort- wright
 The Niqoyastcadje - 'Place-where- l they-came-up' said Brouillard, eluci- dating for her. That is the Navajo name for this valley. Our map mak- CTS shortened it to Niquoia' and the cowmen of the Buckskin foothills have cut that to 'Nick-wire'' This bit of explanatory place lore was entirely lost upon MT. J. Wesley Cartwright.
 Say, Brouillard," he cut in, "you get me the right to build that power dam, and give me the contracts for what material you'd rather buy than make, and I'll be switched if I don't take a shot at this drowning proposition my self tell you, it looks pretty good to me. What do you say?"