Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-05-22
CHAPTER x.
The Rocket and the Stick.

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tory and official fduciary AGENT.
Al The dam the building activities
had heen generously doubled An clee-
tric light plant had been installed, and
Williams WIS working day and Might
Sniff both in The qua1ies and on Tie
tt't "f#@t at i4il1H lIlt INV Li4dAA' 4tis
manager himself broadening rapidly
rs lis field broadened, was branching
out i'm other directions After a brief
conference with few Of his principal
stockholders he hadinstrueted Stillingh
To include The words power and Light
in the eataloguing Of the new COM
pnnN' S possible and probable charter
activities and by the end of the fort
nighf the foundations of powerhouss.
We're going in below The dam and ne
gotatioHS were already on foot with
the Brewster city council looking To-
ward he safe of electric current to the
city Tor lighting and other purposes.
Smith had made the planting of his
financial anchor securely to wiudwafd
his first care. Furnished with select
ed list by Colonel Baldwin, he had
made q thorough canvas of possible In.
vcstorS. and by the time the new stock
WIS printed and ready for delivery
through kinzie'S bank an ironclad pooi
OF The majority of the original Tlman-
Voni bifch stock had been organized.
md Smith had sold to Maxwell, Star
1uck, and other local capitalists a suf-
iicient amount of the new treasury
stock To give him Il fighting chance;
Ibis. With q promise of more If 1t
should be needed.
Not to Maxwell or to any Of the new
investors had Smith revealed the full
DIMENSIONS of the prize for which Tim
lnEoni High Line was entering the
ace. Colonel Baldwin and one Will
liam Starbuck Maxwell's brother-in-
law, by courtesy. and his partner ia
die Little Alice mine, alone knew the
wheel within the wheel how the great
eastern utility corporation represented
by Stanton had spent million or
more in the acquisition of the Esca-
loute grant, which would be practical
ly worthless as agricultural land with
Out The water which could be obtained
only by means of the Tmanyoni dam
and canal system.
With all these strenuous STRINGS in
the business field it may say itself that
Smith found little time for social in.
dulgenees during the crowded fort
night Day after day the colonel begged
him 10 take a night OFF at the ranch.
and il was even more difficult to refuse
The protered hospitality at the week
end. But Smith did refuse it.
j Was not until after Miss Corona
driving TO town with her father, as She
frequently did--had thrice visited the
new offices that Smith began to con-
eratulate himself rather bitterly, to
be sure, upon his wisdom in staying
away from Hillcrest. For one thing,
he was learning that Corona Baldwin
vas able 10 make him see rose-colored.
When she was not with him. ne was
man in daily peril of meeting the
sheriff. But when she was present,
calm sanity had a way of losing its
grip.
Miss CorouaS fourth visit to the
handsome suite of offices over the
Brewster CITY National CHANGED TO
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president of the new cOmUOnV. as he