White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-10-01

below me. Why did you come way
up here to my placer"
"Well, I'll tell you exactly why,
Mr.. Pattern. Most of the good tim
Der down along the river has been
bought and cut. There is lot of
it on the sides of the hill away from
the river but you can't get at it
proftably. Your place has fairly
good outlet: Big Sandy river on
one side Cannon Fork on the other
and smaller creeks cutting into both
streams. I'd want to look over the
land a little more carefully, but it
seems to me that nearly all of the
marketable timber could be snaked
right into one or another creek, then
brought to the two big streams and
RATED and f1oated out. It's worth
nothing to you now as it stands; l
noticed a good deal of the timber is
falling and decaying, and a fire
would play havoc with it. I'd rather
get what / need in large tract
than bother with a whole lot of
small stumpage. That's why am
here and that's just why offer you
such a big price for it. It'll never
be worth any more, and it's liable
to be worth lot less, especially if
fire should get into it,
Spared let the sales speech die
away. Il don't guess want to sell
any land" Spared said.
Shellenberger attacked once more.
"You can't eat it. I can't carry it
away. These natural resources
were put there for us to use, Mr..
Pattern. You haven't any right to
hoard up timber when it's needed to
develop the country. This country's
got to develop sooner or later, you
know. 1t can't just lie here on a
vacation forever for you to look at.
We must develop with the country"
81 don't take much stock in this
development, the way it's carried
out" Spared said, still slowly and
4 clearly. We've developed this place
| for about a hundred years, but it's
some different from the way they've
developed the Peach Orchard Sec
ton by taking nigh on to million
dollars a year in coal and timber
out of these mountains, and bring
ing into it nothing but a. lot of ig-
norant drinking, fighting people
from down the river to do it with.
That is the way the countrys being
developed, looks to me like, Mr.
Shellenberger."
Shellenberger pulled at his pipe
for a while Then he dropped his
voice to an easy friendliness.
"Well, there's not much danger OF
that in my proposition, Mr.. Pattern,
he said laughing. when buy some
land from you, I'll be neighbor OF
yours, and We'll see that it stays
respectable and everybody benefits.
I don't want you to decide right off
about it, anyway. Think it over a
few days. want to go down Can
non creek and | have some bust
ness over at Pikeville. We can talk
about it again"
With that Shellenberger turned
more to the boys and began to tell
them about the mills at Pittsburgh
about the river traffic and the Ven
tura passenger boat, and his travels
to Philadelphia and New York, and
to Washington. He told of the end
less miles of railroad being laid in
the West, and how the people were
flocking to the cities and farms in
the new states and helping business
The boys were excited by the
thought of all that was going or
beyond the valley where they haC
spend their peaceful lives until now
without disturbance.
Cynthia sat by Julia in the kit
chen door, a little way withdraw
from the men, listening to the talk
of the great world that lay beyond
Il e..