Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-18

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1-Au-. la.
there's a few little notions at I've
picked up from folks that's older in
his neck @ woods than I am--been
here longer. The old Cinnabar never
was what you'd call u bonanza Plen-
~ Of ore, to be sure but mostly low
grade. 'ccpting thcmsrich little pock-
cts now III then
Those rich pockets" | put in: IA
strike Of one of them would be abou
the right time to sell. wouldn't it?"
He nodded.
you're shoutin', now. | reckon
that's about how they caught your
gran'paw. But Buddy t'uNer-he's the
'Tropia. telegraph operator and Il sor;
o. halfway nephew O. mine-says
there's more to it than that. Long
back couple O. years r so there~was
Il copper strike made in Little CHINA
hnH gulch. about four mile west O.
here. and follerin' it there was afhCap
o. talk about the railroad runnin' a
branch to it. That there branch, if it
was built--'r when it's buff, Tor it's
goin' to be. some day. 10 open them
coppeR mines-that. bench within a
hundred yards Of the old Cinnabar; SO
close YOU could mighty near dump
from the ore sl ads into the cars
] began to sec more %crookings in
the sacriricial road over which Grand
father Jasper had been led; many
more and more devious ones
IN that case, wen the low-grade
Cinnabar woul come q bit nearer be-
ing q. bonanza, wouldn't it," Iasksd.
She sure would. Stannie. What
, long, hard wagon haul to 'Tropia was
what was putin the cuss in the cost
O. hAndlin'.' .
And with the railroad right al the
door, sc TO speak. it might even pay
to recapitalize at~three-auarters of q
million and drive that long drainage
tunnel we have been figuring on?'
"Somethin' like that; YES. Can You
see any furder into the milestone? III
say I've got about to the Gnu of my
s%quinthin'." E
refillcd my Pipe and did Il bit OF
c~ogitating. Surprising l had beer tho
boss figurer in the bunch tina, dtd
Grandfather Jasper the honor to blk
him; as constituencies as that pirate
whoever he was. and in the secret OIL
the conditions asrDaddy had just out.
lined them, what would I have done?'
The answer came as pat as yol
please. With a railroad in prospec,
Which would turn a small profit into
a big one, I should quite probabl,
have shut the mine down to wait unit
!, ] could hear the whistle of the loco.
tive.
This conclusion led promptly ane
logically to another. Surprising. at the
momen when l had decided upon thu
shutdown, some deddering old gentle.
man had come along and offered tt
buy the mine? id. as a corollary
the superstition that the wate,' prob.
lem was daily growing more jnsistent
with the ultimate threat of. flood. A.
an ordinary. garden-varietS> lninjnl
shark. what would L have done?
That answer anne pat. also.
should have taken the old gentleman,
money trusting to the rising flood tt
make him sick of his bargain in du,
course of TING and thus willing to sci
out for anything he could get.
II believe I have it dopcd OUT
told Daddy at the end Of the cogitat
ing pause; n then + passed the In
%ferences along.to him. The immedi
ate effect was to evoke a couple O
his quaint substitutes for profanity.
m-toebreakfast!" he ex
claimed: "1'n be ding-swizzled If
don't believe you've struck the, tru,
lead stannie. ms son! lfyyou have
here's what follers: Charley Butler
toms here to do the dickerin' for tina
saJne old high-bindin' Cinnabar outfit
for half a million 'r sc, and hoy
they're wilin' to buy back for thirt:
or forty or fifty thousand. BY Jexebel
/ just knew that slick-tongued rooste
WAS tryin' to work some skin game!
Yet he Is going to marry you
daughter.": put IN grimly.
At this the old man turned gloomy
seriousin the batting OF an sy.. draw
ing his mouth down at the corner an,
sucking hard Ct the pipe which ha,
long since burned u
That's BEEN a-pinchin' me like
tight boot. Stannie." he admitted. 81
you'd asst me sfore he come I'd a
told you she hadn't d morgelE o. US
! for that conrdummed bIowhafd.} BIZ
Just : YOU look at the way things ar
stackin' up now!sHe's snoopin' roun,
her mighty nsa all the whole tim
and she hAtn'tsnever7once give me tn
wink to send him a-kitin' like In
He told me to look. ! Had bee,
looking until my eyes ached. The In
dicat,ons were ali one way, tons 3
them; with only one little iYnpulsfv
kiss to put in the other pan OF tn
scale. I didn't tell Daddy about IL
kiss; but I did tell him that Jeani
had told me not 70 soil the Cinnabai
"so?" he com = cnfed. liyeninR sup
little. That brings o n more stSlk
Reckon you car make out 10 nan
onto the old cows tail for a. spel
longer?
! took time to consider my answer
I've been wondering II, all thine
givenythetf due &ootin2, 1t were wort
while to hang on, Daddy. 40 matter
stand now. FULLERTON IL stuck u1les
seIl out@to;h him. IL shonld.taka d.
be left up Id the. ait. HIT On az, nfh
*. HIND; there's Jsapss. h III y
ihs. g 9'frsy laliefts4s Why. fhsts