Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-17

| bitches proving inadequate for these.
| Colonel Baldwin had formed a stock
company among his neighbors in the
! grass lands and his friends In Brewster
for the building Of a substantial dam
In the eastern hills. The project had
seemed simple enough In the beginning.
| The stock was sold for cash and each
stocKholder would be a participating
| user of the water. Williams who had
been United States reclamation man
| before he came to the Timanyoni. had
made careful estimates, and the stock
subscription provided money enoug Oh
to cover the cost OF the dam and the
main ditch.
After some little bargaining. the
, dam site and the overflow land for the
reservoir lake had been secured. ana
the work was begun. Out of a clear
sky, however. came trouble and harass-
uent. Alien holders of mining claims
in the reservoir area turned M and
demanded damages. Some few home
steaders who had promised to sign
Quitclaims changed their minds and
sued for relief, and after the work was
well under way II appeared that there
was cloud on the title of the dam site
itself. All Of these clashings were car
ried into court, and the rancher pro-
moters found themselves confronting
invisible enemies and obstacle-raisers
at every turn.
We've got 10 go in deeper. colonel;
there a nnfhfny OILS 80 40
engineers 81 mming Up Of the matter at
the close Of the conference. 1.-THE snow
is melting pretty rapidly on the range
now. and when we get the June rise
Wen 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 scowIing at 1t as
If 1t had MORALLY offended him.
Assessments on the stock, you
mean?" he said. "pm afraid our crowd
won't stand for that. A good part of 1t
Is ready to lie down In the harness
right now"
"How about q bond issuer' asked
the engineer.
"What do we, or any of US, know
about bond issues7 Why, we knew
barely enough about the business at
the start to chip in together and buy us
charter and go to work on a plan a
little bit bigger thar the neighborhood
ditch idea. You corIdn't float bonds in
Timanyoni Park. AID we're none Of us
foxy enough to go st and float 'em."
II guess that's right. too" admitted
Williams. Besides, with the stock
gone off the way 1t has, 1t would take
a rsighty flne-haired financial sharp to
sell bonds"
Whats thatT demanded the presi.
dent. who's been selling any stock?'
Buck Gardner. for one; and that
man Boiling. up at the head of Little
creek, for another. Maxwell, the rail-
road superintendent, told me about it,
and he says that the price offered, and
accepted, was thirty-nine"
dad burn a cuss with a yellow
streak In him!" rasped the Missouri
colonel. "We had a fair and square
agreement among ourselves that If any,
body got scared he was to give the rest
Of us chance to buy him out. Who
bought from these welshers?"
Maxwell didn't know that. He said
1t was done through Kinzie's hank.
From what I've heard on the outside,
I'm inclined to suspect that Crawford
Stanton was the buyer"
stanton, the real-estate manr
"The same"
Again the president stared thought
fully at the glowing end of his cigar.
There's another of the COMPOUNDED
mysteries" he growled. "Who is Craw-
ford Stanton. and what is he here for?
know what he adyertises, but every
body in Brewster knows that he hasn't
made a living dollar In real estate
since he came here last summer. VIII
liams do you know, I'm beginning to
suspect that there Is a mighty big
Niger In our little wood pile?"
you mean that all these stubborn |
holdups have been bought and paid |