White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-02-08
CHAPTER V-Continued

Ihey say folks get disappointed
In love and go right on living" he OBJ
served. II wonder now I've heard
that men run mostly to form and at
one time or another let it out to some
little lady that there's no other in the
world. That's my own state right
about now. Are you always going to
keep on disliking me?"
II don't dislike you" she said. She
was still convinced of his fathers
trickery toward her own; but Cal
Harris quiet efficiency and his devo
ton to Three Bar interests had con
WINGED her, against her will, that he
had taken no part in it. But If you
brought me out here to 60 into thai
I'm going back"
Il didn't" he denied But drift.
ed into it sort of by accident. NJ
matter what topic happen to be con
versing on I'm always thinking how
much I'd rather be telling you abou'
that. Whenever | make some simple
little assertion about things in gen.
eral, what Pm really thinking is some
thing like this, Billie. right this min.
ute I'm loving you more than did
two minutes back You might keep
that In mind.
listen" tapping his knee with
fOrefinger to emphasize his point "Cal
Warren always wanted to put the
Three Bar flats under cultivation
He's probably told you, that pun.
dred times This will always be range
country. 1t will only support Ger
tain number of cows. If the Three
Bar had section in hay to winter.
feed your stuff you could run double
what you do now on the same range.
It's the same With every other small
concern. There's only few spots
suitable for home-ranch sites and
every one OF those has brand run,
ming out of 1t now-excepting those
sites down in Shades range If all
those outfits put in hay II wouldn't
cut up the range any more than II Is
now-eXcept down SHADES way. Every
outfit in the country could run twice
as many head as they do nOw-except
Slade. He couldn't. The minute farm.
ing starts therell be squatters filing
on every quarter where they can get
water to put 1t in crop. There's TWEEN.
ty places Slade would have to cover
by filing to hold his range where IN.
others would only have to file on one
to control the amount of range they re
using now"
She nodded as she caught this point
Folks have fallen into SET habi,
of mind" he explained "YOu think
because every squatter is burned Out
that every outfit but the Three Bar Il
against sticking piow in the ground
The rest probably feel the same way
know they haven't hand in II bu,
fact, it's Slade alone. There's DER
sistent rumor TO the effect that any
man who burns out sqiatter can
drop In at Shades and get five hun
dred dollars in cash"
"The sheriff has never been able to
have burned those sguatters out" she
said
'And he never will without some
help" Harris agreed "Alden's hands
are tied. But he is playing his own
game single handed the best he can
One day he'll get his hooks into snme
of these torch-bearers so deep they'll
never shake them out. The home.
stead laws can't he defied Indefinitely
The e, ,ernmeni will take hand and
send marshals in here thicker thar
flies. Then the outfits that have
hedged themselves in advance are on
top. The rest are through"
But what can the Three Bar do
against SIade until those marstals
Gomez" she asked
"There's difference between sack
Ing an established outfit with a big
force OF hands and burning out some
isolated squatter roOsting in wHg
on" Harris said 1--WE filed on water
out of the Crazy Loop TO cover the
section bought in the flats We can
the Three Bar between spells of DUNG
prOve-up work. we can put In com
pany ditch to cover all the filings
pay them for working on II and
charge that pro-rata share Of I'm
prOvements up against each mans
final settlement When they've madt
final proof we can buy cut those wh'
went to sell Let's put the flats IN
hay, girl and start grading the Three
Par up. II doesn't take much more
feed TO turn out real beet steer fhar
of those. knife hacked broihers down
in the fiat. In five years we'll nave y
straight red brand and the Three Bar
will be rated al thirty dollars u had
come as they run on The range In
stead of round ten or twelve as they'o
figure de now. Well have good ha,