New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-07-29

mon, was IA political p%lace-hunter who
had Once been sheriff of Arrowhead
county.
you've kept us cooling VI heels
in your waiting-roOm for just about
the last time, Mr.. Norcross :" was the
spiteful way in which Hatch opened
fire. "We've come to talk straight
business with you this trip, and it will
he more tc your interest than ours
if you'll send your clerk away"
While they had been dragging up
their chairs and sitting down, | had
heard Fred May lock up his typewriter
and go. and had been listening anxi-
Ously for some noise that would tell
me Tarbell was on deck. ! thought
| heard the door of the outer office
open again just as Hatch spoke and
it cOmforted me a whole lot.
The boss didn't pay any attention
to Hatch's suggestion about sending
me away acted as if he hadn't heard
It.. Opening his desk he took a box of
cigars from n drawer and passed it.
With this concession to the small hos
FATALITIES the boss swung his chair to
face the trio.
my time is yours, gentlemen" he
said and Hatch jumped in like a maj
fairly spelling for ii fight.
~ or six months, NOrcrOsS, you've
been moving a pretty wide swath out
here in the tall hills. You've been
posing as "A little lin god before the
people of this state, and al, the while
you've been knitting and smuggling and
black lacking private capita. and pri-
waite business wherever and whenever
they have happened to get in your
way. Now, at the end of the lane, by
Jupiter, we've got you dead to rights
you and your id railroad"
cut out as many of the %persOnall-
ties as you can, and come TO the
point" suggested the boss quietly.
you think | haven't any point to
come tof" barked the CRATER, with
rising anger. I'm show you! You
thought you were the only original
tTuSl-DuNltI WITH Abl Slulltu Noul
scheme of locally owned elevators and
warehouses and coal and lumber
yards and ran us out Of business. But
I'm here to tell you that your fine
haired little deal to rob us began TO die
about as snon as it was born"
GLOW 500" inquired the boss.
ut wasn't a month before your little
local stockholders began to get to-
gether and swap stock and sell it.. In
a very short time the control of the
whole string of local plants was in
the hands of a hundred men. To-day
it's In the hands of less than twenty,
with John Marshall at the head of
them. Citizens Storage & Warehouse
is now Il consolidated property, and
John Marshall. Henckel and ! control
Il majority of its stock. How does
that strike you?"
1T strikes me that the people most
deeply Interested have been exceeding
Is foolish to sell their birthrlght. But
that Is strictly their own business, and
not mine or the railroad company's."
Wait" Hatch snarled. ITS 60
ing TO be both yours and the railroad
company's business, before you are
through with it.. Marrow, here, rep
resents Marshall. and | represent
Henckel and myself. What are YOU
going 10 do about those ground leases?'
"Nothing at all, except TO insist upon
the condition under which they were
granted by the railroad company"
Meaning that you are going to try
To hold us to the fixed percentage
charge for handling, packing, loading,
and transferring?"
Meaning just that. If you raise the
proportional market-price charge on
the producers and merchants, the
will terminate"
81 thought that was about where
you'd land. Now listen: we're 1t
Marshall and Henckel and land
we say, goes as 1t lies. We are
going to Use the present G. $. * W.
and equipment, charging