The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-18

g,,,,. pu, you thinx of that .,. glr,F Bill observed presently a'' old , real, honest-to-goodness r@ailraa @ "A Dy within a hundred miles 'u going shack. Ihree years. Itll be tba.. , our lore we know it. Wen have 'e as,'t De bors to burn." 'e neigh
 "A hundred miles" Hazo, L. "ls that your idea of neIghhos,sn aasned tance?" e"'oriy dis.
 Wnats a hundred milesqn h. fended. 1.-Two days ride tho. ne de' And the kind of people that "o.s all. settle in country like this don,t ys "., 10 in sight of the cars. Thev,ra 'uek ',' me-need lots of elbow room. Tho.0us nse be hardy souls looking for q looea .en up where we are before voru 'a''oa You'll sec" 'one.
 They passed other crews of no. surveyors with translts, cba,,msu stake drivers, ax gangs wideninn .at path through the timber Mos. % as them looked at Hazel in franp s,. prise, and stared long after she nassaa % by. And when an open bottom has,ss a noisy little creek showed the scs, tered tents of the survey camp Hs,s, said: -''Ae'
 Let's not stop, Bill"
 He looked back over bis shor,a.. with comprehending smile
 Getting shyI Make you unc,,, fortable to have all these boys lool :. you. little personr he bantered aIM right. we won't stop. But all th... fellows probably haven't seen , vhI,. woman for months. You can't hl.m. them for admiring. You do look ,ooS to other men besides me, you kpov.
 So they rode through the camp vttA put nod to the aDroned cook. vhn thrust out his head, and a gray.h.irea man with glasses, who humped o,., a drafting board under an svpin, Their noon nre they built at | mr,rr nve miles beyond.
 At length they fared into H,..,,o. which is the hub of a vast ar,a ov., which men pursue gold and fn,, Some hundred odd souls were ,,tA. cred there. where the sterp.whse, steamers that ply the turgd Skeen, reach the head of navigati tion. A land. recording once and a mining recorder Haxelton boasted as proof of l,s civic importance. The mining reccrde, who combined in himself many capad. ties besides his governmental function undertook to put through Bilrs land deal. He knew Bill wagstaff.
 "Wise man." he nodded. over the de scriptiOn. 'If some more uh these boye that have blazed trails through this country would do the same thing, they'd be better ofY. A chunk of land anywhere in this country is ( good bet now. We'll have rails here from the coast in year. Better freess onto Q couple uh lots here in HassE ton. while they're low. Be plumb to the skies in ten years. Natural place for city. Bill. It's astonishin' how the settlers is comin'."
 There was ocular evidence of thls last. for they had followed In road we'll rutted from loaded wagons. But Bill invested in no real estate, not' withstanding the positive assurance that Haxelton was on the ragged edgs of boom.
 Maybe, maybe" he admitted. "Bus I've got other fish to fry. That one piece up by Pine river will do me TOT a while"
 Here where folk talked only Of sold and belts and railroads and settlement and the coming boom that would may them all rich, Bill Wagstaff added two more ponies to his pack train. Ines' he loaded down with food. staples on!' four. sugar. beans, salt, tea ana evl' fee, and a sack of dried fruit. Al'o he bestowed upon Nigger furtn" burden of six dozen steel traps
 And in the cool of a midsumms. morning, before Hazelton had ruDOee the sleep out of It's collective eyes anu taken up the days work Of discu'''ns its future greatness, Roaring bill anu his wife draped the mosquito ne's "" their heads and turned their 'a' north.
 They bore out upon a wagon lo.s' For a brief distance only did tn's - dure, then dwindled to path. A '~. in this hid sight of the clustefeu Y" houses and tents, and the two ''ers rs. CTS that lay up against the bahx M ,a, river itself was soon lost in tne .a, . stretches of forest. Once more '.s. .s. rode alone in the wilderness. fo. a,,ns first time Hazel felt quick shr'nA,us a...a from the North. an awe Of its nusS .,,s silent spaces. which could so z % sul, engulf thousands such as they an' remain land untamed.