Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-09-06

for share Of this new business. He
had been received courteously and
told that no orders for lumber or build
ing material could be given him be-
cause Silas Babson was one Of his
heaviest stockholders.
When Crenshaw returned to Valley
Center he informed the local chamber
OF commerce of the projected outlay
OF a great deal of money in Eden VAL
ley. Nate Tichenor and his wife had
merged their ranches, the old Bar Fl
headquarters were to be RACED and
the old Circle K log ranch-house was
to be given over to RUDE Tenney and
his family, after the Tichenors had
erected on the Circle K a country
home that was to cost not less than q
hundred thousand dollars. There were
stables and kennels to be erected also,
grounds to be laid out and flowers
planted. The lunatic Tichenor was
even going to build a nine-hole golf
course and huge swimming pool.
Crenshaw thought that the payroll for
labor necessitated In these operations
should go to Valley Center, so the vice
president of the chamber Of commerce
called upon Tichenor to suggest 1t.
"Forlorn Valley in general and Val
ley Center In particular wishes to for
get the past and be friendly with you,
Mr.. Tichenor." he stated. "As proof Of
that feeling l call your attention to
the fact that we gave you the use of
the freshet waters of Eden Valley
creek this spring when we found we
couldn't use them ourselves, owing to
the necessity for concreting our d.
version canal. We didn't have to do
that, but we desired to make a friend
ly gesture"
MY dear man, ordered those flood
gates opened myself and had men
guarding them with rifles so that no
body would close them until our lands
had had their annual soaking. That's
the sort of friendly gesture / made to
Forlorn Valley. / was on my honey
moon at the time and didn't want to
bother with the law, so 1 just went
back to the old Eden Valley custom.
1t worked. And I'll engage no labor
from Valley Center or Forlorn Valley.
/ do not like anybody in that Sec
ton of the county. And here's another
message you can take back with you;
within two years I'll own every acre
OF Forlorn Valley that is included in
the irrigation district; I'll fence it and
run cattle over it. At least the wells
will supply drinking water for my
cattle. And when the farmers in the
district have been dispossessed there
will be no further necessity for the
thriving town of Valley Center, SO It
and its chamber of commerce will dis
appear; Valley Center will then be
a ghost town. inhabited by ghosts"
The vice president Of the chamber
Of commerce was irritated but he was
also amused. rs there no way in
which we can escape this horrible fate
that awaits us?' he pleaded in mock
distress.
Eyes, there u.s." Tichenor replied
seriously. "Get rid of that buzzard,
Babson, and start doing your own
thinking. Show an inclination to be
fair and I'll meet you two-thirds Of the
way toward an amicable adjustment
of this water war. Continue to permit
Babson and his paid newspaper to
print lies about us and ridicule as.
and I'll smash you. And after I've
smashed you Ill buy up the pieces and
own the district. l tell you, when l
get through with the state of Cali
fornia that state will be out of the
business Of giving away water it does
not own and that document Babson
got from the state water commission
will be perfectly worthless"
His visitor gazed upon Tichenor hu.
morously. what long tail our cats
got" he murmured.
"Oh, I'm only a common little bob
cat now" Tichenor replied easily.
swat until / develop into a tiger
and then watch my tail swish!'