The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1916-03-23

| critically at the speech and doings OF
many places.
Also. nowhere is there 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.
ness which was his characteristic, the
new owner sensed the feeling among
them. II only added to that tumble OF
sensations and impressions which had
crowded thick upon him from the first
and which he had had no time to
assort and get under control lie 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. load OF lumber
was brought up the slough on the
punt from the mill 1t Toledo and four
men were put to building Il small OF.
fee. II was set at the edge OF the
slough. bit below the cook. shack.
whore Il commanded from its two east.
ern windows and door the track. the
roading donkey, the log.trail and the
rollway and from the southern one
the winding slough. tho rest OF the
| track and the lower rollway. where
the donkey engine left the logs. It's
! duty done. After that they rolled
down with much splashing to the mar
row ribbon OF water which. with ev.
cry flood tide backed In from the bay,
lifted them high and trundled them.
grinding end groaning, slowly down.
perhaps TO the mill at Toledo. perhaps
10 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 10 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, a case OF books. a map
or two and several chairs. beside
small stove. Here. with the four pine
walls around him. Walter Sandry 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 10 the minutest detail.
OF the DillinEworth Lumber company.
These he set himself 10 master as his
first step toward the vast golden goal
OF the dream that had brought him
| west.
Very shrewdly he decided 10 take
nothing out OF the capable hands OF
his foreman. There had been sort OF
tense pause in the camp pending this
development. When II became appar.
ent that things were 10 go on as
usual the work went forward as II
line had been loosened
Big John Daily had gone about dur.
ing the few days OF uncertainty with
the u..runled 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 Daily's lumber camp
when his father old John Daily. had
logged with oxen on the eastern slopes
Of the Coast range and there vas no
jerkwater railroad In 10 YaQuina bay
When 2O0.fOot fir had tOttercd out
Of line and sent the Old man forever
into silence in the roaring thunder OF
/ its fall. the boy John, al seventeen.
had picked up the reins OF government
in the camp and carried on the work,
I "a ptI h,r lot
| general. his mother With the years
~ his young manhood hc 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, 10
Portland or down 10 san Francisco
and always lring the past ii had been
the Dillingworth Lumber compa1y J
into whose vast holdings the camp had
cut its way
Always there had been no hand OF
power In the hills save his own, no
supervision excepting the an, Ial visits
Of some member OF the firm who went
over things. nodded. estimated took
figures and went away, lie had car.
ried on his camp himself fought since
be could remember with the Yellow
Pines company, whose holdings were
vast AS those OF the Dillingworth. and
; had not thought OF change
When Walter Sandry settled quietly
; down with no voice in the doings OF
tho camp, Daily drew n good breath
and went ahead once more.
As for the new timber magnate he
sat down at the new desk on the first
; day OF his occupancy OF the little Office
; on the sloughs edge and wrote his
, first letter.
II was on printed letterhead:
Dllingwortn Lumber Company,
Toledo, Oregon.
Dear Dad: Excelsior, fancy I'm on
|. Il NNL.E