The Riverman

d in sorting the logs in the booms. Not until six o'clock in the evening did the whistle blow for the shut-down. Then he hastened home, to find that Newmark had preceded him by some

oom. This was among the gables, a chamber of strangely diversified ceiling

t's a good chance, and I want to get in something that looks like money. I don't know who y

ty thousand dollars,

. "If we tell these fellows that we'll get out their logs

enty thousand on what I've seen and heard of you, and you're

lau

e're both right

ut myself. New York born and bred; experience with Cooper and Dunne, broker

avely twice in

"have you had time

e. I take Daly as a sample, because I've been with his outfit. It costs him to run and deliver his logs one hundred miles about two dollars a thousand feet. He's the only big manufacture

note-book and began

conduct separate d

d old Heinzman. The

were to drive the whole river

grub on two hundred right there. And, of course, a few improvements on the river would save time, which in our case would mean money. We would not need so many separate cook outfits and all th

for example, do you reckon you c

hich he emerged occasionally to scr

t last. He looked up a trifle startled. "Why," he cr

ment, a quizzical smile wrin

And then, of course, all our improvements will be absolutely valueless to anybody after we've got through using them. You said yesterday they'd probably stand us in seventy-five thousand d

greed Orde, hi

arose, "there's good money in it, as yo

week we ought to be

f expense thoroughly, and establish our schedu

tilious farewell to

e to him at the gate,

he Gr

the young folks. I'd be glad to tak

n't go in much for that sort of thing, and I expect to be