The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1919-06-19

Q drop Of water was brought IN. daf
din has lots Of grisvancesl He'd made
the original survey. So when no sued
for his back wages he took the papers
Of The bankrupt company In settle
ment. Hes . grim sort Of inensctual
bulldog. Hes chung with his teeth
to the Estrada idea. And he's not big
enough for It. He uses the optimistic
method-givss you only half OF . case
half Of the problem, gets started on
. false premise. Well. he got up an
other company on that method. the
Desert Reclamation company. tried to
whitewash the desert project; 1t was
In bad odor then, and he managed to
bring q few drops Of water to the
desert"
TT was Hardin who did thatr
But he couldn't deliver enough.
The cut silted up. he cut again. the
same story. he was in . pretty bad
hole. He'd brought colonists in al.
ready: he'd used their money. the
money they'd paid for land with wa
ter, to make the cuts. No wonder he
W3D V08pSEates
Il recalled the man Richard had
disliked. the rough-shod, loud-voiced
student Of his first class in engineer.
ing. That was the man who had made
the namboyant carpets Of the Holmes
boarding house impossible any longer
to him. He had a sudden disconcert-
ing vision Of q large unfinished face
pseEing through the honeysuckles at
q man and q girl drawing apart in
confusion from their first and last
kiss. He wanted to tell Marshall he
was wasting his time.
s0vsewhelmed with lawsuits," Mar.
shall was saying. Hardin had to de-
liver water to those colonists. Il was
thea that he ran over into MEXICO.
% - to get q better gradient for his
canal. and made his cut there. You
know the rest It ran away from him.
Il made the Salton sea-"
did he ever give you any reason"
hownsd Richard reminiscently. ANY
reasonable reason why he made that
cut without any head gater'
mo money!" shrugged Marshall.
getting out another cigar. II told you
he's raw dancer. always starts of
too quick. begins on the wrong foot.
Oh. ~. he has reasons, lots Of them.
that fellow. but - you Say, they're
not reasonable. He never waits to get
ready"
Why was It that the face Of the
haf-sister came to Richard then. with
that look Of sensitive high breeding
and guarded resefvsi And shs . Har-
dinl Sister to the loud-spilling mouth !
Queer cards nature dealsi And pretty
cards Marshall was trying to deal out
b him. Go down there and nnish
Hardin's Job. show him up to be the
fumbler he was, give him orders, give
the husband Of Gerry Holmes or.
ders-l
TT was Hardin who came to me,
but not until he'd tried everything
else. They'd worked for months Try.
ing to dam the river with Q few lace
handkerchief. and perhaps . chiffon
vellr" Aarshall vas twinkling over
his own humor. Hardin did put up
. good talk. Il was true. a. hs said !;
we'd had to move our tracks three,
no, four times at Salton. II was true
that II ought 10 b one Of the richest
districts tappsd By the o. p. But he
clenchod me By q clever BALTIC put
out . spur In Mexico which would
kssp any other railroad OF By q nfty.
mile parallel, and there the sandhills
make Q railroad impossible.
The government must eventually
come 70 The rescue. Their works at
LASuna hang o. the control q he
river down at the heading. OneA b
told mel don't know how much
truth there was IL 1.-THE service. rec.
lamatioo service. did try to buy up
their plant for . paltry sum. Hs
wouldn't cell. The short u, I recon-
msn6sd lons.sishtsd assistance to
raraday. I promised to turn that
river. save the district. We expected
before the year was out to have Tie
government take the responsibility OF
our hands"
Richard made an impatient shrus,
4 nice problem Narshall had taken
unto himself. he wanted none Of IL
Herdin-ths thing was impossible.
He met laggardly Narshall's story.
Hs heard him say: agreed with Far.
aday. The Desert Reclamation com.
pany was % helpless a. q swsddlsd
infant We made the condition that
We rsorsaniss the company. I was
put In Hardln's place a. president Of
he corporation. and he was made zen.
eeal manager. OF course We had 10
control the stock. We put M two
hundred thousand dollars Hardin
had estimated Il would cost M leas
thao half thati lt's cost 10 already
million. Things haven't been eoins
right Taradays temper burst ont
and Hardin Q while back was asked
to resign"
"AAd u y HardiaS position tsas