Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-02-01

agement heart and soul; the back.
bone of an army is Its nol-coms.
But the uphill pull commenced to
show progress Forty thousand a
day. John must put to the mill to
keep the band-saw fed He began
to do better than this: by holiday
time the reserve decked In the yard
had crept up a trlie; a two day cut
was there. waiting for an emer.
gency; a three. enough for four
days.
Not time, yet. for a long breath,
but time TO let yourself hope
a trlfe.
" . show you what I'm wound
on !" he growled between set teeth
as he watched a load going on to
the deck instead of directly into the
hot-pond.
Not time, yet, for a long breath.
though. The night Waterman AT the
mill reported that In making his
rounds an unidentified sknlker nd
run out of the locomotive stall. A
wrench was found. dropped In the
doorway, and John put on a special
man to guard Tiny's old relic, their
only hope.
Three days later. running for one
of the stiff grades with four loads
of logs bound for Kampfest. Tiny
Temple looked back To see a car
leave the rails. TO see the splintered
ends of ties pop up through the
snow. to see the car take the ditch
and 81 over before he could stop IL.
Wrecking tools were In Shoe.
string. and ii was necessary TO make
the run in for Jacks and replacers.
They got the car back on and he
track repaired. but a day was lost
and the margin of safety for the mill
shrank instead of growing.
Way-Bill and Tiny came to John.
"A brake-beam on that card been
monkeyed with" the conducto- said.
"You could see the fresh wrench
marks on the nuts"
"What dc you make of thatY
"They know we're goin too we'll
Fixed to spill us to make trouble
They care q d-n about getting
their logs moved The Kampfest
yards full. and If we keep on the
main line won't be able to clean out
the switches at the crossing. More
dirty work !"
John c,$led Tucker into tie con
ference. but the roadmaster smiled
and shook his head donbtfnlly
FAIRY story |" he said. "You
couldn't tell within two weeks when
that beam'd been repaired"
Way-Bill spat and big Tiny eyed
Tucker with a look that was no
just pleasant. John wondered. feel
Ing a birS-nneasy. Thereafter. he
kept wrecking equipment in the
way-car. 9
And now Gorbel's men com
menced dumping at two landings.
which meant that IL would be neces-
sary to spot two strings of empties
daily, more minutes taken from the
time OF Ellen's train crew. A man
must take II and grin, though. John
knew that he had read The old o
tract by which Richards agreed to
transport those logs.
Ellen talked to him In detail of
the company finances to point out
the necessity of going faster Cars
OF air-dried lumber rolled out of
Shoestring piles of green lumber
grew. New loans. with lumber as
security, were negotiated In Milwau
kee to care for the curt demands of
the Kampfest bank.
"But we're only one jump ahead
OF disaster" she said. "These Mil.
waukee bankers have been so de
cent with Us up to now. but there's
no telling when their good nature
will give out. If we should shut
down 1t would bring them up here
In a hurry. If we can just keep GO
ing!"
They had not got abreast of the
situation again as yet. A four-day
tle-up would leave the mill hungry
Luck Is with u.s." Ellen said that
night. We've had no billiards. since
you came. You seem to be able TO
checkmate their moves. but you
can't bent bad weather.
Gross your fingers" he said
grimly.
Right he was. The next after
noon the placid western sky hazed
up and the temperature. which had
been moderat for days, dropped
suddenly. A FESTIVE. puffy wind he
gan to blow and settle. towards
dusk, to q moaning breeze which
carried fine. singing snow before 1t.
Tiny Temple brought the train
In an hour late. locomotive plas-
tered with snow. fesfooned with
lclcles, and John. who had been busy
In town all day, was there o meet
him.
"Gef your suppers," he told the
crew. "She's going to be a busterl
Wen run the pillow tonight"
THAT'S the way to lick itl"
a brakeman said.
Two hours for food for the men
and coal and water for the engine