Licking Valley courier., 1922-01-12


able cost. Pacing the distances care
fully. and guessing at the dlfftfences
In altitude by the heights Of the,trees,
I saw that It wouldn't be safe to,count
upon less than mile Of tunneling,
and this In the solid porphyry of Old
Cinnabar, and in situation remote
from the nearest base Of supplies,
would run-no, 1t wouldn't run; II
would fairly gallop into money.
Was this what Fullerton meant to do
II he could oust met That he was ut-
terly confident Of his ability to drain
the Cinnabar was evident. But how
was It to be donei Would he. or his
hackers. be willing to spend a quar-
ter Of q million or more. and the better
part Of . years time, driving that
mfieieng tunnelf
The lenger ! thought about II, the
lsrEeF the conviction grew that no
such expensive expedient was to be
resaxtsd to. Bullerten, or his hackers,
or both, knew some other and far
cheaper and more expeditions way Of
getting rid sf the water. Sitting On a
big nock that had In ssms fornsr earth
convulsionS Stumbied ffen the broken
eliza above the mine. I gave the me
ehau,csi traction Of nv brain tif was
. small fraction and sadly uadsr-de-
vslepsd, irei rein. u
I've possibilities susgested them
selves A.siShon, . bis pipe. starting
ct siae hstton Of the shaft aud leading
out tEsr tfs top and down the nsun-
tsih % . point lower than the shaft
bottam. would. sftsr It vas snce
staPcsA ettoln.ticaily disekarge q
strssn II lts Nswn bigness. whatever
that should BE-. But the coef Of ever
a ME sf sach pipe was beyons my
means; and IL tive siE-inch punps
driven nigAt and dsy had failed to
make any inpressisa upsn the food,
what esuii b expected ofa siphon
whicA. In ths nature Of things, couldn't
b much bigger than an ordinary
strett water mninf =
The other possibility was even less
hopeful II was the driving bf short
tunnel. which Daddy and l might un'
dertake without additional help, from
the level of the high bench straight IN
to ab Intersection with the mine shaft
This, estimated. might tap the wateI
at appoint possibly twenty feet below
its present level In the shaft Its sue
cess. as i saw at once, would dspept
entirely upon the location and vo,um,
Of the underground lake which wal
supposed to be supplying the food. II
this reservoir were shallow and higf
In the monnteln, the short tunne
might drain II II II were deep and
low. nothing would be accomplished,
The question was stu hanging hope
lessly up IN the air when 4 made m,
way around to ahe mine. buildings b,
the left-hand gulch path, .sneaked Il
and began to shuck myself into Dad
dy's extra pair Of oyerells just Mo-
what l hadn't the least Idea enly
needed TO be dong semething 70 hse'
me frcm'going. completely dotty In th'
guessing contest. ~
BY this time. as | knew. they woul,
be getting up from brenkfast IN tn
cabip across the dump bead. whlcl
would most l|kely he rnllerlon's cu'
to come over and ride NE some more
When looked out 10 sour pnlIcipa
tion. here he came. s'nohInF one Of hi
hIgh.prlced cIeaf1 and staggering
bit, as he always did 10 walking.
This - your thlriy'th0usond- -dolla
day, Brouehion7 he tossed d me a
soon as he stepped over the threshold
Of the shaft house door; but fancie
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