The Raymer enterprise., 1917-12-06
CHAPTER x.
The Rocket and the Stick.

The Rocket and the Stick.
For full fortnight after the pre-
lImlnary visit to the Brewster City
National bank Smith was easily the
busiest man In Timanyoni county. Is.
tabllshing himself In the Hophra
House, and dlscarding the working
khaki only because he was shrewd
enough TO dress the new part becom'
lngly. he flung himself into what
Colonel Baldwin called the miracle
working" campaign with a zest that
knew no tagging moment.
Within the fourteen-day period new
town Offices were occupied on the Sec
ond floor of the Brewster City Ma
tlonal building; Sulllngs, most efficient
OF corporation eounsels. had secured
the new charter; and the stock-books
Of TImanyonl High Line had been
opened. with the Brewster City Ma
llonal named rs the company's deposit
tory and official fduclary agent.
At the dam the building activities
had been generously doubled. An cleo
trio light plant had been Installed, and
Williams was working day and night
shifts both In the quarries and on the
forms. Past this, the new financial
manager, himself broadening rapidly
as his field broadencd, was branching
out In other directions. After a brief
conference with few Of his principal
stockholders he had Instructed Stllings
TO Include the words Power and Light
In the catalogulng OF the new COM
pany's possible and probable charter
activities, and by the end Of the fort
night the foundations Of a powerhouse
were going In below the dam, and ne
gotiations were already on foot with
the Brewster city council looking To-
ward the sale Of electric current 10 the
city for lighting aud other purposes.
Smith had made The planting Of his
financial anchor securely 10 windward
his first care. Furnished with a select
ed list by Colonel Baldwin, he had
made thorough canvas Of possible In
veStors, and by the time the new stock
was printed and ready for delivery
through Kinzie's bank, an ironclad pool
Of the majority Of the original Timan.
vunl Ditch stock had been organized,
and Smith had sold to Maxwell. Star
buck, and other local capitalists n Suf-
ncient amount of the new treasury
stock to give him a fighting chance;
this, with promise Of more II II
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
anyoni High Line was entering the
race. Colonel Baldwin and one VIII
liam Starbuck, MaxweIls brother-in-
law, by courtesy and his partner in
the 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 Esea-
lante grant, which would be practical.
ly worthless as agricultural land with.
out the water which could be obtained
only by means Of the Timanynni dam
and canal system.
With all these strenuous STRINGS In
the business field, II may say Itself that
Smith found little time for social In
dulgeuces during the crowded fort
night. Day after day the colonel begged
him TO take a night off mt the ranch,
and Il was even more difficult to refuse
the protrcred hospitality ut the week.
end, But Smith did refuse 1t.
II was not until after Miss Corona
driving to town with har rthrr. rs she
frequently did-had thrice visited the
new Offices that Smith began 10 con.
graduate himself, rather bitterly, TO
be sure, upon his wisdom in staying
away from Hillcrest. For one thing
he was learning that Corona Baldwin
was able to make him see rose-eolored.
When she was not with him, he was a
man in daily peril of meeting the
sheriff. But when she was present
calm sanity lad way of losing It's
grip.
Miss Corona's fourth visit TO the
handsome suite Of Offices over the
Brewster City National CHANGED to
fall upon q Saturday, Her father,
president Of the new company. as he
had been Of the old, had private Of
fee Of his own. but Miss Corona soon
drifted out to the ralled-off end Of the
larger room, where the financial Sec
rotary had his desk.