Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-05

electric light plant had been INSTALL
ed, and Williams was working day
and night shifts both in the quarries
and on the forms. Past this, the new
financial manager, himself broaden
ing rapidly as his field broadened,
was branching out in other direc-
tions. After a brief conference with
few of his principal stockholders
he had instructed Stillings to include
the words Power and Light" in the
cataloguing of the new companys
possible and probable charter ac-
tivities, and by the end of the fort
night the foundations of a power
house were going in below the dam,
and negotiations were already on
foot with the Brewster city council
looking toward the sale of electric
current to the city for lighting and
other purposes.
Smith had made the planting of
his financial anchor securely to
windward his first care. Furnished
with a selected list by Colonel Bald
win, he had made a thorough can
vass possible investors, and by the
time the new stock was printed and
ready for delivery through kinzie's
bank, an ironclad pool of the ma
iOrity of the original Timanyoni
Ditch stock had been organized. and
Smith had sold to Maxwell, Star
buck, and other local capitalists a
sufficient amount of the new treasury
stock to give him a fighting chance;
this, with a promise of more if it
should be needed.
Not to Maxwell or any of the new
investors had Smith revealed the full
dimensions of the. prize for which
Timanyoni High Line was entering
the race. Colonel Baldwin and one
William Starbuck. MaXwell'S broth
r-in-law, by courtesy, and his part
ner in the Little Alice mine, alone
knew the wheel within the wheel;
how the great eastern utility COR
poration represented by Stanton had
spent a million or morein the ac-
QUESTION of the Escalante grant,
which would be practically worth
less as agricultural land without the
water which could be obtained only
by means of the Timanyoni dam and
canal system.
With all these strenuous STRINGS
in the business field, it may say itself
that Smith found little time for So
cial indulgences during the crowded
fortnight. Day after day the colonel
begged him to take night off at the
ranch. and it was even more difficult
to refuse the proffered hospitality at
the weekend. But Smith did re-
fuse it,
1t was not until after Miss Corona
driving to town with her father,
as she frequently did-had thrice
visited the new offices that Smith be-
ganto congratulate himself, rather
bitterly, to be sure, upon his wisdom
in staying away from Hillcrest. For
one thing, he was learning that Cor
ona Baldwin was able to make him
see rose -colored. When she was not
with him, he was man in daily peril
of meeting the sheriff. But when she
was present, calm sanity had a way
of losing its grip.
Miss Corona's fourth visit to the
handsome suite of offices over the
Brewster City National chanced to
fall upon a Saturday. Her father.
president of the new company, as he
] had been of the old, had a private Of
! flee of his own but Miss Corona soon
drited out to the railed-off end of the
| larger room, where the financial
secretary had his desk.
"Colonel-daddy tells me that you
are coming out to Hillcrest for the
week end" was the way in which she
! interrupted the financial secretary S
| brow knittings over a new material
contract. Il have Just wagered him a
nice fat little round iron dollar of my
allowance that you won't. How about
it?"
Smith looked up with his best-na-
tured grin.
You win," he said shortly.
Ito Be Continued)