River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-07-26

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Sam had stopped playing, Kate
Nicholson was weaving chords in mu-
sic unknown to those who listened,
save that it seemed to speak some
common language that had been for
gotten since childhood. The fire shift
ed. there was silence in the big room.
Mormon sat shading his face, Miranda
Bailey beside him, her knitting idle
Sam lounged in a shady corner near
the harmonium. Grit lay asleep. 1t
was infinitely peaceful.
There was the sound of motor
outside. the honk of horn. The door
opened and a man came in, gazing I'M
certainly about him in the half-light-
Westlake.
'aThis is the Three Star, isn't it?'
he asked evidently puzzled at the
group.
Sandy lit the big lamp as they all
rose, Grit nosing the engineer, accept
ing him.
"Sure is" he said. you know Miss
Bailey, Westlake? Miss Keith an
Miss Nicholson, Mr. Westlake. They
both know something about you.
Come to stay, / hope"
His voice was cordial as he gripped
Westlake's hand, though the remem-
brance of what Sam had said at the
mining camp leaped up within him.
Westlake and Molly! Here was a
man who might mate with her, might
suit her wonderfully well. Upstand-
ing. educated, no lightweight pleasure
| seeker. as he estimated Ronald Keith.
Here was complication in his
| dreams of happiness that he had lost
| sight Of
IF you can put up with me, for
| BIT" said Westlake. "Ive come partly
on business, Bourke. I've left Casey
| Town. | came over with machine
| from the garage at Hereford. I'll
get my things and send him back
Sandy went outside with him and
| helped him with his grips. The ma
| chine started.
"Ouit Keith?' asked Sandy.
| "Yes: we had misunderstanding.
About my staying here, Bourke. 1t
NAV be a bit awkward. Young DON
aid Keith intends coming over. am
/ sure he doesn't know thing about
/ his fathers business affairs. But
have a strong bunch that Keith him
| self will be along later to offset any
talk he thinks / may have with you.
i He'll figure I've come here. He doesn't
1 know all that / have found out, at
| that. If it's likely TO embarrass you
or your guests in the least I'll go on
to Denver tomorrow. I'm headed that
way. I've got South American
proposition in view Wired them yes
terday and may hear at any minute
"Shucks!" said Sandy. "Yore my
friend. Young Keith don't interest
me, save as Molly wants to entertain
him. I'm under no obligations to
| Keith himself. Yo're my guest an
/ wen keep you's long we can hold
you in the corral"
II had no idea Miss Casey would be
| like-what she is" said Westlake, as
/ Miranda Bailey, Mormon In attend
ance, came out of the house.
"Time TO- me to be trailin' back"
said the spinster. Moons risin'.
Good night, Mr.. Westlake. See you
ag'in before you go, hope
She climbed into the machine,
which Mormon cranked 1t moved off,
Mormon watching it. Then Sam came
out and joined them.
"Gels gone to bed" he announced.
whats Keith doin' up to Casey
Town, WestlakeY
ut won't take long to tell YOU"
| The four walked over to the corral
and the three partners climbed on the
| top rail, ranch-fashion. Westlake
stood before them.
practically all the gold found in
/ Casey Town comes from the main
gulch where the creek runs. The
gulch was once non-existent. 1t Is
| likely there was a hill there. It's nub
| was a porphyry cap; the rest of 1t
| was composed of layers of porphyry
| and valueIess rock dipping downward,
| nested like saucers in the synclinal
/ LAYERS. Ice anu HdttI WOIt Oll
nub and leveled the hill, then gouged
| out the gulch. They ground away, In
my belief, all the porphyry that held
| gold except the portions now lying
either side of the gulch.
at was the top layers that held
| the richest ore. OF those that are
| left only one carries it and that is
the reef that outcrops here and there
both sides of the gulch. This isn't
theory. All strikes have been made
in this top layer. Where they have
sunk through to a lower porphyry
stratum they have found only indica-
tions where they found anything at
all. But the strikes were rich be-
cause sylvanite is one of the richest
of all gold ores Some of the strikes
have been on the Keith Group prop
critics. They have boosted the stock
of all of them.
81 have been developing these