Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-07-02
OF 'CHRDY RICHcS
COPYRIGHT BY PETER B.KyNE

weir ne queried casually.
"Safe-o. Bucki" replied Bryce.
"Nothing to do but get bite of din.
ner and proceed TO business"
Buck insisted on keeping an engage.
ment to dine with MORA. and Bryce
agreed to call for him at the Bon
Gusto restaurant. Then Bryce went
home to dine with his father. Old
Cardigan was happier than his son
had seen him since the return Of the
latter to SeQuoia.
"Well, sonny, I've had mighty
pleasant afternoon" he declared MS
Bryce led him 10 the dinner table.
"Tve been up TO the Valley of the
Giants"
Bryce wns amazed. "why, how
could your he demanded. 1.-THE old
skid road is impossible, and after you
leave the end OF the skid road, the
trail in to mothers grave 10 SO over
grown with buckthorn and wild lilac
! doubt II rabbit could get through
II comfortably"
mot bit OF It." the old man re-
piled. Somebody has gone to work
and planked that old skid road and
put up hand rail on each side,
while the trail through the Giants has
been grubbed out and smoothed over
All that old logging cable abandoned
In those cboppings has been strung
from tree to tree alongside the path
on both sides. can 90 up there alone
now, once George sets me on the old
skid road; can't get lost"
"How did you discover thisY' Bryce
demanded.
Judge Moore. representing the new
owner, called round this morning and
took me In tow. He said his client
knew the property held for me a Ger,
tain sentimental value which wasn't
transferred In the deed, and so the
Judge had been instructed to have the
skid road planked and the forest trail
grubbed out-fOr me. II appears that
the valley Is going to be a public
park, after all. but for the present and
while | live. II II my private park"
This Is perfectly amazing. partner"
"It's mighty comforting" his father
admitted. Guess the new owner must
be one Of my old friends-perhaps
somebody did q favor for once
and this Is his way OF repaying. I'd
like to know the name Of the owner
I'd like mighty well to say thank you
to him. II isn't usual for people now
adays to have as much respect FOR
sentiment In an old duffer like me as
the fellow has. He sort Of makes me
feel AZ II hadn't sold at ALL"
Buck 0gilvy came out Of the Bon
Gusto restaurant with MORA. just as
Bryce. with George Sea Otter at the
wheel Of the Napier. drove up to the
curb. They left MORA Mt her board
ing house. and rolled noiselessiy away
At nine o'clock they arrived al
Oardigan's log landing and found jim
Harding. the bull-donkey engineer
placidly smoking his pipe in the cab
Bryce hailed him.
THAT you. Jim1"
-You bet
run up to Jabe Curtis shanty and
tell him we're here. Have him gather
his gang and bring two pairs Of
overalls and two Jumpers-lsrge size
with him when he comes"
Presently the woods-boss, accom-
panied by thirty of his best men, came
down to the log landing. At Bryce's
order they clambered aboard the en-.
CINE and tender, hanging on the steps.
on the roof Of the cab, on the cow
catcher-anywhere they could find a
toe-hold. Buck Ogilvy cut or the air !;
and the locomotive and tender began
to glide slowly down the almost I'm
perceptible grade, With slight click
Il cleared the switch and slid out onto
the Cardigan lateral. swiftly gather
ing speed. A quarter Of a mile down
the line Buck ogilvy applied the
brakes and eased her down to twenty
miles per hour.
At the junction with the main line
Buck backed briskly up into the
Lagunda Grande woods, and coupled
to the tive loaded fat cars. The
woods gang scrambled aboard the
fats, and the train pulled out for Sc
quota. Forty minutes later they rum
bled down Water street and slid to
grinding halt at the intersection Of II
street.
From the darkness OF Cardigan's
drying yard. where they had been
waiting, twenty picked men of the
mill crew now emerged. bearing Ian
terms and tools Under Buck Ogilvy's
direction the dirt promptly began to
fiy, while the woods crew unloaded the
rails and piled them close to the side
walk.
Suddenly voice. harsh and strident
with passion, rose above the thud Of
the picks and the clang OF metal.
who's in charge here, and what In
blazes do you mean by cutting my
tracksf
Bryce turned In time to behold Col.
Seth Pennington leap from an auto
mobile and advance upon Buck Ogilvy.
Ogilvy held lantern up to the Colo