The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-26

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look ' io9 5S the food he took and saying that he was ''''''' and not
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Mr. Benznger had truck-loads of Mexcans and
fixed the roads, and Mr. Ascot had kept his promise and
vered lumber Derrick Dads carpenter
got his gang and they had moreonts in the ss and
drilled holes through Them and set them with bos then stage
by the towering derrick had being 122 high
straight and and solid There ladder platform
halfway and another place stand at the top all nice
and clean and and Dad would let climb and you could
the vew clear the houses and the the blue
waters of the Pacfcgee it great And then the
fleet of motorrucks laundering in just dusty and
ravelstained full of pepudgng the they
footing greeting to Arnold Ross and his The ditch by the
roadside had been filed with crushed rock making place
they could drive in the field and there they Stood
them lined up in
There bright lights on derrick and men
waiting the sleeves of their khaki shirts rolled up. They
spected this od man. because he knew his business and
body could fool him. Also they liked him. he combined
amount Of kindness with his ernness simple
and unpretentous-when crowded, you would
have him eating his beans and coffee stool in the eat
joint alongside you guy"
bned the glamour of million Yes had 'the stuff
barrels of and what magician who pulls rabbits and yards
of ribbon out of his sleeves compared with pull
couple of dozen o-deck many miles casing
and tanks and eets OF and roads for them to
Also they like the d" because he put than
his Dad but jolly and interested you doing
ana asked sensible questions and remembered explanations
Yes kid like that would learn the business carry
old man teaching him right He knew all the by
first and took their oshng and had clothing
duly smeared with grease which he would put on
But there joshng now time for breaking
records There big cement block for the engine
wooden block top of that to take the vbraton
the truck with the engine backed place.
firm, and the skds made sold and in y engine
into place and ready for business There gasoline
at hand the feedppe hched up ready
make steam and the skds under the
Bunny came back the next morning he found the big drum
IN pace ana the running tackle up IN the DERRICK and
they unloading the drllstem" They steel
chain about three of the heavy pipes pulley
steel nook would come down and seize the chan the engine
would start humping and the chain the
draw tight and the pipe would slide off the These pipes
were twenty feet long, and weighed nineteen pounds to the foot
and when had your well mile Deep you figure for
yourself there fifty tons of Steel and your derrick had
carry nat weight and your steel cables had to lift it, and
drum and engine had the People at the
price of gasoline but they thought price
dri-stem and castings!
All these things Bunny had hundred times but
Dad never tired of telling them He entirely
unless the boy was by his side learning the business You
mustn't fool yourself with the idea that you
to attend to things for how could you that
expert unless you knew as much as he did? Some day
foreman might drop dead other fellow would buy
away from YOU and then where would be? Be your
The machinery which did the turning called roary
table,; connected with engine by steel chain exactly
IKE sprocketchan Of bicycle except that the links
as big as your wrist The rotary table had hole through
center, where the drsem went through;
spending hole in the there would be
in the ground! The hole the rotayabe square, and
top drllstem, known as "Kely joint" square,
fitted this ho you lowered Throughout first you screwed in
your collar and bit the tool which actual cutting
They starting with bitit things like
dnnerpaes set opposite each other and they
and round the weight of the pipe caused them chew their way
eghteen-inch bit,
it Hoped around it cut you hole two across.
Well the time came when the last tool hand,
the last bolt made tight and the drilling ready
long journey into the bowels of the earth This
moment akin to the launching of ship the Inauguration
the rst president OF republic Your friends gathered and the
from nearby jobs and crowd of sghsee The
had been hustng for three weeks with this goal
now they Stood both the day shift and the night shift proud
their past and eager for their future The engneman had
hand at the lever and his Dad gave nod
he showed the lever and the engine started and the gears
roaring racket and the bit hit the ground-Spud Spud AT
least that what men imagine they hear and they call the
operation spudding in All aboard for Chna sang
and everybody who had clean hands
including Mr. Bankside whose land they drilling and
Mrs Bansde and the whole Banksde family They carried Dad
and Bunny to their home, which the lease they