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

She dropped into q chair as
though suddenly weakened and her
mouth worked. Then she looked up
with a wry little smile and asked:
We'll, what do you think of itf"
"Hay-wire |" be exploded. "lt's
Slow. costly a jokel No won.
der you're in trouble, with a woods
Job run like this onel"
"WeIl what would Won
do?" she asked. trying to put some
tone of challenge into the words and
failing.
He stood there and told her what
he would do and why. item by item I;
told II emphatically. almost as
though she were disputing him /;
told ii with a thoroughness and his
agility of Interpretation.
She watched him. lips parting as
his conviction carried him away and
when he stopped. again standing be
fore her. saying, Those are a lew
of the things I'd do until | dug up
more to do" she turned ava into
the sunset. tiltering through the
naked tops of maple and birch and
beech and her eyes misted.
Pm glad you're looking for a
hard Job. John Steeler she said
calmly. u think | think I'm
going to depend on you from now
on"
He laughed then, as a man viii
who is coming out of a fright.
"Tll do my best" he sai6.
Now, when a young man, wholly
mad, Is out to show what he can
do. and who has had an opportunity
of displaying his capacities dangled
before his eyes tantalizingly for a
day that seemed like a week. he is
bound to go fast. once started.
Ellen Richards new boss vent
like the wind. like fire. like a wild
horse; by day he drove his crews I:
by night he sat In the office at camp
or In town and laid llans for fur
ther driving.
The winters operation had been
confined to a long. narrow ravine
into which. because of the contour
of the country, steel could not he
laid at justified expense. The haul
was along the bottom of this sharp
depression to Its lower end and
thence up a hill. where a tow-team
worked every hour getting loads TO
the top. From there the sleighs
doubled back on the high land. pars
alleling the first part of the haul 10
reach the landing.
Over three miles, II was, and at
one point the steel came within
forty rods of the rim of the ravine.
I'VE should be dumping right
therel" John exclaimed to Saunders
when he saw the place.
"Yeah. But we don't haul by air
plane yet = the foreman growled.
John said no more. but his mind
was busy. In the miil-yard was
an old steam loader. long discarded
1t was not In had shape. and three
days later II was In the woods; men
were building a road through The
deepening snow straight up the side
of that pot-hole and on to the al
1acent steel. The jammer was SET
down. skidded to the brink OF the
steep pitch and a cable bent to the
drum. Teams left off the long jour.
ney by Iced roads. took their sleighs
down the pitch to the sideways.
brought them, loaded. to the foot of
the incline, unlocked and came up
ahead while the power of the Rap
ids steam engine snaked the loads
to the top.
The tow-team was liberated for
the haul; each sleigh was able to.
move an extra thousand a day (;
costs we're cut. Daily the size of
the decks at the new landing In.
creased; log production was step
ping up; a fundamental shorfcom
Ing a being overcome. and as he
stood IN the third afternoon follow
ing the Initiation of his new plan.
John muttered tightly:
:" see what I'm wound IN,
Toni See what I'm wound on.
YETI"
Yes, the Richards operation had
new life, new vigor as long as John
had his fingers on each phase. but
a man can't be In more than one
place at a time; each day has only
It's allotted hours.
He had had the train crew with
him from the beginning and did moi
need to worry about getting the best
out of what equipment he had there
Tucker. the roadmaster. was spry
enough, eager enough. IL seemed.
bur there were times when John felt
that he could not wholly trust the
man. Nothing he could put his
finger on; nc delinquency he could
point out. Just lntuitlve distrust.
he won Jack TAFT. the barn boss
as a stalwari friend by lifting up
through one bitter night TO help
minister to n lick horse. The horse
died. but Its distress had not been
Johns primary motive In going
without sleep. He needed the