White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-04-24

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what is known as the highlands
above what is now the business Sec
ton of American Falls. The town.
site was laid out by the United States
Bureau of Reclamation and is to be
one of the most modern small cities
in the country.
the fossils out of. And your Uncle
was sore about Fossils
A quick nod went round the table,
in which Hugh soberly joined.
zone point at time, gentlemen.
Yes, was keen disappointment to
Uncle Bookie. would have changed
it if could. But COW pony with all
the good will in the world can't make
himself into race horse, and If he's
horse with sense he won't try.
Uncle Bookie felt that himself To-
ward the last, he didn't talk so much
to me about my work as he did about
my-well, / suppose I might say, my
character. He had more real, dis
interested fondness for Wyoming than
any native son ever met. think his
biggest Disappointment in me was
that l didn't show the same kind of
fondness."
Hugh paused. tt was extraordinar
lily painful, this laying his soul bare
before these hard-faced men. But he
knew of no other method.
1T was a fondness that none Of
you and certainly not have ever
felt"
Again Hugh stopped while he drew
on the deeps within. !. And still his
auditors, angered though they may
have been, made no attempt to in
81 am saying to you now" suddenly
lifting his head and speaking directly
at Whitson, his beautiful, ardent
mouth twisted half tragically, that
not until repeat our conversation to
you this morning have I realized
my absorption in myself must have
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serve that after all, knowing that
would use it as a world fossil field,
he did put it within my power to con
troll the Old Sioux Tract. This tract
that for nearly quarter Of a century
had had such poignant significance
to him, that was bound up with his
early fight to make Wyoming a law
abiding state, with the killing that
must have been terrible memory to
him and, most of all, with the deep
hurt Of having 1t spurned by the wom-
an he loved, who preferred to die in
poverty and dependence rather than
take from him the gift won by him at
such soul cost. This is the tract that
he turned over to me. believe that
can turn it to such noble usage that
it will satisfy all Uncle Booklets hurts
AS to Duncan, as to my mother, as
to me. Force the Eastern Electric
Corporation to build its dam else
where, gentlemen. Let me make a
monument to Uncle Bookie of the Old
Sioux Tract"
Old Whitson heaved great sigh.
Those were the days! Men was men
in those days. So that's what be.
came of Jimmie Duncan! HUH"
John Houghton spoke: Grafton,
the Eastern Corporations man, says
the only other feasible point to build
the dam is fifteen miles on up the
Roaring Chief. He says what with
the frightful difficulty that would be
added in transportation costs-it's q
god-awful spot to reach from the rail
road-and in the doubling Of the size
of the dam as would have to be done
at that point, it would more than dou.
BILE the cost of the project, and It's
not to be thought of. The Corpora.
ton has reached it's limit in costs
with the dam at Thumb Butte"
Whitson scratched scraggly chin
with paper knife and renewed his
plug. "Why amt it monument enough
to Bookie to let the Old Sioux Tract
contribute to the producing OF water
power for his section of Wyoming?''
he asked.
Hugh looked at the chairman with
such combination of anger and dis.
gust in eye and lip that the old man
turned hastily to the other members
Of the commission.
ANY other of you folks got any.
thing to say?"
They had and they said it at con.
siderable length. Hugh made no at.
tempt to follow the details Of their
arguments. He was convinced that
they had been bought and paid for.
When each member had said his say,
the chairman turned to Hugh:
Sorry, Stewart. You've given us a
pretty good idea of how you feel and
how old Bookie felt. But to 90 up