Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-01-21

SOrt OF DOOM my STOCK. emf BE
J good fellow"
: Certainly. Now come down to cart
o and render report on your stewart
e ship"
a I'll try. To begin, I've secure
] rights of way, at total cost of twelv
= thousand, one hundred and three do
lars and nine cents, from the cit
limits of Sequoia to the southern boun
dairy OF your timber in Township nine
I've got my line surveyed, and so IA
as the building Of the road is concern
ed, know exactly what Pm going t.
90, and how and when I'm going Il
do 1t, once l get my material on the
ground.
Il have an option of a rattling good
secondhand locomotive down at the
Santa Fe shops, and the Hawkins &
Barnes Construction company has offer
ed me a steam shovel, half a dozen
fiat-cars, and lot of fresnos and
scrapers at ruinous prices. We can
buy or rent teams from local citizens
and get half of our labor locally. And
as soon as you tell me how I'm to get
| my material ashore and out on the lob,
I'll order 1t and get busy"
That's exactly where the shoe be-
gins to pinch. Pennington's mainline
tracks enter the city along Water
street, with one spur into his log-dump
and another out on his mill-dock.
From the mainline tracks we also
have built a spur through our drying
yard out to our log-dump and a
switch-line out to our mill-dock. We
can unload our locomotive, steam
shovel, and fat-cars on our own
wharf, but unless Pennington gives
us permission to use his mainline
tracks out to point beyond the city
limits-where a Y will letd off to
where the point of construction be-
gins-we're up a stump"
Suppose he refuses, Bryce. What
them"
''Why, We'll simply have to enter
the city down Front street. paralleling
Pennington's tracks on Water street.
turning down B street, make a Jump
crossing of Pennington's line on Water
street, and connecting with the SOUR
into our yard"
"See here, my son." Buck said
'olemnly, SIS this your first adventure
n railroad buildingY
Bryce nodded.
L thought so; otherwise you
wouldn't talk so confidently of run I
ing your line over city streets and d
laking jump-crossings on your COM d
etitors road. If your competitor re- s
ards you as menace to his pocket il
ook, he can give you nice little run q
Or your money and delay you indefi-
ltely." T
Il realize that, Buck. That's why |
m not appearing in this railroad deal
all. If Pennington suspected 1 was /
ack of 1t, he'd fight me before the
ty council and move heaven and
lrth to keep me out of q franchise
use the city streets and cross his
ne. OF course, since his main line
ms on city property, under a fran
Use granted by the city, the city has
perfect right to grant me the privi- L
&c of making a jgmp-crossing of his
lie"
"Will they do It? That's the prob tn
m. If they will not, you're licked. tn
son, and I'm out of lob" m
Bryce hung his head thoughtfulIy. tn
We been too cocksure," he muttered tn
esently. Il shouldn't have spent ov
at twelve thousand for rights of way mi
til had settled the matter of the M
Nj
'Oh, L didn't buy any rights Of way ST.
yet, Ogilvy FASTENED to assure him
We only signed the landowners nm SCI
an agreement to give or sell me q thu
mt OF way at the stipulated figures ioc
time within one year from date. ma
IL the city council grant you
nchise to enter the city and jump mr.
nnington's tracks?"
I'm sure don't know, Buck Yopu A..
re to ask them-sound them out
council meets Saturday morning.
they'll meet this evening-in the
Vate dining room of the Hotel A
Iuoia, If l can arrange it." Buck IS I
IVY declared emphatically. "Pm dov
ng to have them all up for dinner is I
talk the matter over. I know NOT
breed from cover to cover. Fol- Job.
ing preliminary conference, I'll b
you know whether you're going to frui
mat franchise without difficulty or tim,
ther somebody's itchy palm win ing
2 70 be crossed with silver first By the
way what do you know about lime
ohghted old city council, any 8. F
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