Geneva High School - Legend Yearbook (Geneva, IN)

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PAGE 24 THE INFORMER accomplished After a last look and testing of pack lashings Pierre strap- ped on his webs and started of! ahead brealnng trail Charley and I cracked our whips and shouted Mush and we were ol! as knights of old seeking our fortunes in the snowy wastes of the Northland We only made about flftv mxles that day as we had to make Olll' own trail and packrng soft snow rs not the eas lest thing ln the world even lf the breaker does wear snow shoes After the camp was erected supper over and the dogs taken care of we sat around the flre smokrng and talk ing Plerre who had traveled exten srrely and had art by the firesrde of a great many camps of Indran trrbes t r us storres of the camphre and trarl and when Chrrlew asked hlm why he drd not settle rn Qrtka h replred It IS the call of the vmrlder ne s Nlanv hare rde f,1l91I' stake and left the trarls but rf tlrex don t dn they all come back The mlderne s calls and they h ue to cone Three months later x c e rn errr cabin on Duck creek mth somethrn llke five thousand dollars worth o dust to pay us for or r work Prerrr came IH and pullrng off hrs mrttens and moccasrns sard She corn mence to than we hare to grt at the end of the v. eek vue started fo Stka ruth rts amusements and cur lrfatron We arrrved after a hard pull trarl grew softer and sort trmes the runners grated drrt and rocks Pte I6 to flnd old frrends and to ones Charley and I sat in our room at the Palace hotel talk ing over our winters work and the prospects for next year because the er untrl at upon the started out make new We decided that one of us must re turn to the United States and get more capital to buy machinery and other things necessary to operate our claims Then came the question Who should go' Each thought the other should go but we nnally decided to match coins and the winner t make the trip As a result I accom panied Charley to the pier the next morning and with a. Good bye Psrd good luck we parted CH XPTER II Three years had passed srnce I had brd Charley good bye and I was stand mg In the door of the superintendent s ofllce on Duck creek Below me came the steady clank clank of the water pumps as they threw therr steady stream agarnst the slde of the clrff and too there came the qurck stac cato beat of the steam drrlls as the-v open new shafts to explore the sands below I was thrnkrng three years ago that creek had been rnhabrted by three men but novr the blllldlIlgS of C1 Frstrlrss mrne lay at my feet Charley had been out about three months Vw hen I recerx ed a long letter postmarked Chrcago tellrng of his or the Duck Creek Nlmrng Co Ldt were ln the NICI ane bulldrng and 1 could draw on the company for any rmount up to two hundred and fifty tlror sand dollars and that a shrp load of machrnerv and horses were en route Twxo months later the unload .ng had begun and shortly after I was on Duck Creek mth a gang of men ettrng thrngs rn shape Today the Duck Creek mme rs a modern bonanva and the Duck Creek Mrnrng Co Ltd rs one of the largest rn the world Whrle I was dreamrng Plerre came up mth the mall and I went rnsrde to look rt over The first thrng I found was a cablegram which had been for warded from the Prrnce Edward Is land and tearmg rt open I found the followmg Records destroyed ln fire Brmg orrglnals at once-Char le I turned to the door shouted for Al YI , , ll Il 0 . ' . . ' . ll DI Cl . I ' ' .. , . K ' ' . K. - ' . ' I - - , , . . , I ' , , v i Y ' I . , J ' Y ' . . .1 ' ' ' ' ,z ' ' . , V ' ' oll . s ' . . ' '2 V, - ' ' 1' C. ' 1 j ' . C , - C - , ' H ' v' Q 1 . 1 - ' I 't ' 'f , c , , .s,. I v . ' rn: ' . A , U . . .s- . K - I ' U l I ' -- 1 l . f - ' 2 1 A' Iexperrences and success. The offices , we V-It ' , r - '- ' ' . K ., ., .' ' 1,1 ' . . . ! 1 ' 1 A , 4 ' 7 , . F' . , . . r '. '. 'rw 5. , ' I r 1 , . ' ' ' . tt ' . , . . ' A C '- ' . 'g ' . ' ' . So l - . 1 I . , h. :. 1 K I r ., ' 1 '- 1 1 Y' K .741 . . A l ' 0' ' I ' ,, . ., , - ' ' If ' ' . 's -J ' v ' ' rv . Q ' 1 K 7. . . . I , . . . i 4' Y . . - , .. I ya, ' D I