Jerome County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1919-1920, 1919-03-27
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problem now. all right; the writer Of
the report he'd just read wasn't the
only one who was prophesying failure.
Let the river cut back, and the gov
crnnrnt works at Laguna would be
useless; IA pickle Hardin had made.
! sun 10 gain time he suggested that
Marshall tell him ,ho situation. awe
! followed only the engineering side of
/ IL. 7 don't know The relationship of
the 1880 companies.
where the railroad came in? The
inside Of that Story? I'm responsible
- Guaranteed 10 Faraday the closing
of thai break. There Was ii big dis
I irict To- save, Il district that the rail
road tapped-but III tell you that
! later He was leisurely putting blue,
I perfectly formed rings into the air
! his eyes admiring them.
"Fcrlaps you've heard how Estrada,
/ the general, took Il party of men into
1 The desert to sell mine he owned
After the deal was made he decided
Z To let ii slip. He'd found something
! bigger TO do, more to his liking than
the sale of II mine. Estrada was d
big man. a great man. He had the
R idea Powell and others had. of turn
ing the river Of saving the desert. He
dreamed himself of doing it. If sick
ness hadn't come to him the Colorado
would be meekly carrying water now
/ instead Of flooding "A country. Pity
Eduardo. the son, is not like him. He's
! IKE his mother-you never know what
they are dreaming about Not at all
alike my wife and EStrada's."
Then II came TO Richard that he
had heard somewhere that Marshall
and General Estrada had married sis
tiers. famous beauties of Guadalajara.
lie began 10 piece together the per-
>onnl background OF the story
"li VAS a long time before Estrada
could yet it started. and its Il long
! story. As soon as he began he was
kn"rh'd down. pthcr iHcn took hold
l"ull hear it all in the valley. Har-
din took a day 10 tell il to me. He
secs himself as a martyr. Promoters
got in: the thing >welled into a
Swindir. Spectacular swindle. They
showed oranges on Broadway before
drop of water was brought in. Ilar
me original survey. So when he sued
Tor ms back wages he look the papers
OF the bankrupt company in settle
ment. He's grim sort of Intellectual
bulldog Hes chung with his teeth
? To the Estrada idea. And he's not big
enough for il. He uses the optimistic
m"thod-gives you only half of case.
half of the problem. gets started on
false premise. Wen. he got up an
other company on that method, the
Desert Reclamation company tried To
whitewnSh the desert project: it was
IN bad odor then. and he managed to
bring few drops of water to the
desert.
1T was Hardin who did thatT'
But he couldn't deliver enough
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