The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1922-06-30
CHAPTER xx-continued.


what is 1t you want to known"
Sheriff. asked.
what were the relations between
benjamin Corvet and Captain Stat
ford?"
Sheriff. thought moment.
"COrvet," he replied. was very
able man; he had insight and mental
grasp-and he had the fault which
sometimes goes with those, a iesltancy
of action. Stafford was an able man.
too, considerably younger than Corvet.
Twenty years ago, when the conflict
Of competing interests was ut its
height, COryet was the head of one
line. Stafford was head of another and
the two lines Ind very much the same
connections and competed for the same
carSOes."
Il begin to seel" Father Perron ex-
claimed. "please 90 on"
In the early nineties both lines still
were young; Stafford had, believe,
two ships: Corvet had three"
rs" few7 Yes; 1t grows palmer -
An 1894, Stafford managed a stroke
which, If fate had not INTERVIEWED must
have assured the ultimate extinction
of Corvets line or Its absorption Into
Staford's. Stafford gained as his part
ncr Franklin Ramsdell, Il wealthy man
whom he had convinced that the lake
traffic offered chances of great profit !;
aud this connection supplied him with
the capital whose lack had been ham
pcring him, as 1t was still hampering
Eorvet. The new firm-StaffOrd and
Hnmsdell-projected the construction,
with Ramsdells money, Of a number
of great steel freighters. The first of
tl,cse-the Miwaka, test ship whose
experience was to guide them in the
construction of the rest--was launched
in the fall Of 1895, and was lost on Its
maiden trip with both Stafford and
RnmsdeIl aboard. The Stafford and
Ramsdeil interests could not survive
the death of both owners and disap
peared from the lakes Is this what
you wanted to known
The priest nodded. Alan Leaned
tensely forward, watching; what h,
had heard seemed to have increased
and deepened the priests feeling ovel
what he had to tell and to have aidet
his comprehension of it.
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