The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-03-09

d There we're dozen business block
under construction in Mirapolis, wit
: proportional number of dwelling
!, and suburban villas at various stage
> in the race toward completion, whel
: 1t began to dawn upon the collectiv,
J consciousness OF a daily increasing
citizenry that something was missing
: Garner, the real estate pluager from
, Kansas City, first gave the missing
, quantity its name. The distant thun
: der of the blasts heralding the ap
rroach of the railroad had ceased be-
tween two days.
Up to the period of the silenced dy-
Mantle thunGerings new industries
were projected daily, and investors,
tolled in over the high mountain trails
or across the Buckskin in dust-en-
crusted automobiles by methods best
known to gray-mustached adeIt in
the art of promotion, thronged the
lobby of the Hotel Metropole and
bought and sold Mirapolis corners"
Or ''insides" on a notwithstanding
scale of prices.
strange mania for holding on, for
permanency, seemed to have become
epidemic. Many of the working men
were securing homes on the install
ment plan. A good few of the villas
could boast parquetry floors and tiled
bathrooms. One coterie of Chicagoans
decided to build a six-storied office
building, with a ground floor corner
for the Niquoia National bank with
modern conveniences and that the
chosen building material should be of
nothing less permanent than mono
lithic concrete.
In harmony with the same spirit the
newly Incorporated Buckskin Gold
Mining and Milling company plowed
deep burrows to bedrock across and
back until the face of Jacks mountain
was zigzagged and SCARED like vet
eran of many battles.
In keeping was the energy with |
which Mr.. Cartwright and his munich |
pal colleagues laid water mains, strung |
electric wires. drove the paving con-
tractors. and pushed the trolley line to
the stage at which it lacked only the |
rails and the cars awaiting shipment
by the railroad.
This was the situation on the day
when Garner, sharp-eared listener at
the keyhole of opportunity. missing
he dynamite rumblings, sent cipher
wire of inquiry to the East, got a
rush" reply, and began warily to un-
Dad his Metropolitan holdings. Being
! man of business. he ducked to cover
ime his hint had grown to rumor size
dr. Cartwright had sent for Brouil-
ard.
Pull up chair and have a cigar"
aid the great man when Brouillard
ad penetrated to the nerve-center of
he Metropolitan activities in the Metro :
ole suite and the two stenographers
ad been CURLY dismissed. Have
ou heard the talk OF the street? There
rumor that the railroad grading
as been stopped"
Brouillard, busy with the work of :
citing the third series Of forms on
is great wall. had heard nothing.
I've noticed that they haven't been !.
lasting for two or three days. But q,
lat may mean nothing more than a .,
slayed shipment of dynamite" was
IS rejoinder. =,
at looks bad-devilish bad" The n
'omoter was planted heavily in his n,
yot chair, and the sandy-gray eyes of
vindled to pin points. I'VE are up di
sainst it, that's all Read that" and IN
e promoter handed telegram br
ross the desk.
The wire was from Chicago, was Pr
gned Alderman" and was still
imp from the receiving operators no
pying press. 1t sad: ~.
Work on p. S-W.'s Buckskip ex -
nsion has been suspended for the -,
esent. Reason assigned. shrinkage -.
securities and uncertainty of bust -,
'ss outlook in Niquoia" ~
Mr.. Cortwright's frown figured as
'shly mask of irritability Let it ~
ice get out that the railroad people -
INF bel;eve IN ~ f,,.,,- 20 No. lib,
and we're dona" ~ ent
Brouillard's retort was the express "a
On of an upflash of sanity. III
"Mirapolis has no future; 1t has 90,
Ily an exceedingly precarious pres en-,
It," oni
r. wal
For a moment the sandy-gray eyes IVA,
came inscrutable. Then the mask w
irritation slid aside, revealing. the -or
ce which Mr.. ]. Wesley Cartwright mo-
presented to his world Tar
face of i1nerturbable good nature. ron