The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-07-15

Spencer thought of his engagement tt
Winnie and felt that back of her Offer
there was a deeper meaning on hen
part. Was he to tell her of his en-
gagement to Winnie or not?
"Leona, appreciate your kind offer
it makes one feel that he can yet over
! come great obstacles. | will talk il
over with Mother" Calling Leona or
the phone next day, he talked it over
with her and his mother and it was ar
ranged that Leona would advance a
certain sum on purely business basis
Spencer told her that she was taking
the period of greatest risk to bring the
project from speculative to paying
basis. Was she still willing to assume
the risk?
The matter having been arranged,
Spencer left for the camp with suffi-
cient funds to start building his smell
ter. On his way he stopped in Mime
apolis to see Winnie at the University
He told her of his struggle and the
success of the furnace. She was
working hard at her studies and he
could see a great change in her Asso-
citation had made it so. Her world had
enlarged. her natural beauty remained
fresh. She took plenty of exercise and
was the admiration of her school COM
panions. Leaving Minneapolis, he
came to Gardiner and met Hartz and
went into camp. The survey made by
Sacket was used for the pipe line and
power plant. There was great excite
ment when work was started and the
news got around that the electric
smelter was to be built, having given
his order for machinery and material
before leaving his laboratory. Work
was begun on the division dam which
turned the water of Goose Lake into
Hartz Lake, which acted as a storage
reservoir, timber and stone. being used
in the construction. The power plant
was placed in the canyon where it
gave a head of six hundred feet on the
water wheels, steel pipe line con-
veyed the water to the wheels. The
electric furnace was placed at the
same point so that all ores could be
hauled down grade. The work was
pushed as fast as possible at the camp
but the machinery was slow in coming,
especially the electric machinery. 1t
seemed that no matter how hard Spen-
GER urged he could not move it thru.
There were always polite excuses. So
many orders ahead. Rushing it just
as fast as they could. The work in
camp was nearing completion and the
electrical machinery still not on the
ground. The hydraulic machinery had
arrived and was in place The first in
stallation was of small tonnage and
was to demonstrate the furnace in the
camp under every day conditions. Dur
ing the construction there had come
into the camp a stranger who made a
close examination of things in general,
and the men kept very close watch on
him as he was not very talkative.
After about nine months, Spencer de-
termined to go east and ascertain why
he could not get the electric machin-
cry. 1t was only standard design.
As he was about to start east he and
Hartz went down the trail to see
Fisher Upon arriving at the cabin
they did not see the old man about as
usual, so they knocked on the door but
no answer. So they concluded to force
the door open, suspecting something
wrong. After doing so, they walked in
and found the old man in bed, dead.
His life work was done. He had sown
for others. They would reap.
Hartz reported the circumstances
to the sheriff in Cooke, who came over
and examined the body and also made
a search of his effects. Among his
papers was found a will written in an
irregular hand. "In event of my death
before dispose of the ore I have dug
out in my claims | desire that the
ores shall be given one-half each to
Hartz and Dora, who saved me from
being killed by bandits. I have no one
else to leave it to-" The sheriff re-
membered the Circumstances Of the at
tempted robbery and decided that
Hartz and his wife, Dora, were the
heirs by the will.
The old man was laid away near his
cabin where for years he had worked
and dreamed. The old prospectors
who attended the burial saw the be-
ginning Of the end. Those who were
used to hardships and who had lived
outside of society, whose manners
were rough, whose hearts were with
ont 1aL,