The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-07-26

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reservoir lake had been secured, and
the work was begun. Out OF clear
SKY. however, came trouble and harass.
ment. Alien holders OF lqinIng claims
In the reservoir area turned In. and
demanded damages. Some few home.
steaders who had promised so Sign
quitclaims changed their minds and
sued for relief. and after the work was
well under way It appeared that there
was cloud on the title of the dam site
itself. All OF these clashlngs were car
ried Into court, and the rancher pro.
moters found themselves confronting
invisible enemies and obstacle-raisers
at every turn.
The legal fight. as they soon found
out. cost much money I'm every phase
OF 1t; and now. when the dam was
scarcely more than half completed, n
practically empty treasury was star
ing them In the face. There was no
Disgusting the fact that crisis was
approaching, a financial crisis which
no one among the amateur promoters
was big enough to cbpe with.
L We've got to go In deeper, colonel /;
there Is nothing else to do" was the
engineers summing up Of the matter AT
the close Of the conference. "The snow
Is melting pretty rapidly on the range
now. and when we get the June rise
we1l stand to lose everything we have
II we can't keep every wheel turning
to get ready for the high water"
Baldwin was holding his cigar be-
tween his fingers and scowlIng at It as
II it.had mortally offended him.
Assessments on the stock, you
mean?" he said "Tm afraid our crowd
won't stand for that. A good part of IL
Is ready to lie down In the harness
right now."
How about bond issue?" asked
the engineer.
what do we, or any of us, know
about bond issues2 Why, we knew 1
barely enough about the business nj
the start to chip in together and buy us
a charter and 20 to work on plan d
little bit bigger than the neIghborhood
ditch idea. You couldn't float bonds In
Iimanyoni Park. and we're none of us
foxy enough to so East and float 'em."
Il guess that's right. too" admitted
Williams. Besides. with the stock
gone OF the way 1t has. 1t would take
mighty fine-haired financial sharp TO I
sell bonds"
whats thatW demanded the presi- |
lent. who's been selling any stockT'
Buck Gardner. for one; and that
nan Boiling, up Mt the head of Little
'reek, for another. Maxwell the rail-
Dad superintendent, told ME sbout II,
md he says that the price offered, and
accepted, was thirty-nine."
dad burn cuss with a yellow
itreak in him." rasped the Missouri
colonel. 1--WE had fair and square
'greement among ourselves that IL any,
'ody got scared he was to give the rest
II us a chance TO buy him out. Who
fought from these welshers?"
Maxwell didn't know that He said
{ was done thr~' III Kinzie's bank.
from what I've heard on the outside,
m inclined to suspect that Crawford
stanton was the buyer"
stanton, the real-estate man?"
"The same"
Again the president stared thought
ully at the glowing end of his cigar.
There's another Of the confounded
Mysteries" he growled. "who is Craw.
ord Stanton, and what is he here for?
know what he advertises, but every
'ody In Brewster knows that he hasn't
made living dollar in real estate
ince he came here last summer. VII.
lams, do you know, I'm beginning TO
Inspect that there is a mighty big
llgger In our little wood pile?"
You mean that all these stubborn
oldups have been bought and paid
or? Yonll remember that Is what
'illy Starbuck tried to tell us when
he first of the missing mining-claim
wners began 10 shout at us" Il
"Starbuck has long head, and what
e doesn't know about mining claims In
his part OF the country wouldn't an
cry big book. l remember he said
here had never been any prospecting
one in the upper Timanyoni gulches.
nd now you'd think half the people In
he United States had been Iiosing
round up there with pick and shovel
cne time or another. But It was
hing that Starbuck told me no longer
go than yesterday that set me 10
Baldwin went on. "As you
now, the old Escalante Spanish grant
orners over In the western part of this /
ark. When the old grants were made,