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Updated: June 27, 2025
News of the great gold strike got here about three o'clock, and every laborer within hearing of it shouldered pick and shovel and lined out up the new track for Copah." "What!" shouted Ford. "And these dash-dashed MacMorroghs didn't try to hold them?" "I don't know about that. I had Mr.
It was a mere routine notification from the line-end operator at Copah, and the chief clerk read it sullenly to the master-mechanic. "Engine 266, Williams, engineer, and Blackmar, fireman, with service-car Naught-One, Bradford, conductor, will leave Copah at 12:01 A.M., and run special to Angels. By order of Howard Lidgerwood, General Superintendent."
All he would say was that the engineering department was still at work, he believed; that the track was approaching Copah, slowly, perhaps, but pretty surely. "But without a head!" snapped the irate president. "Ford is a traitor to the company. Tell him so from me, sir, if you know where he is skulking."
"I have learned nothing that I did not know before we began to build the extension," was the non-committal rejoinder. "Oh, you haven't? You reported that canyon impracticable for a railroad, and yet I have just driven through it without once dismounting from this buckboard. Moreover, we shall find in Copah to-morrow a re-survey of the line showing its entire practicability, Mr.
Colbrith; do that, and give me absolute authority over the MacMorroghs and their men for one week; and before the week's end we'll be hauling passengers and freight into Copah over our own rails." For a moment the president seemed to be on the point of yielding. Then his habitual caution thrust out its foot and tripped him. "I can't be pushed, Mr.
Attorney Kenneth had many more object-lessons in the study of "open camps" on the three-day return ride to Saint's Rest. The day of stop-over in Copah chanced to be the MacMorrogh Brothers' monthly pay-day, and until the men's money was spent pandemonium reigned along the line of the extension.
"He said that the '16 had never gone out through the Copah yards; that it couldn't get anywhere if it had without everybody knowing about it." Lidgerwood's abstracted gaze out of the office window became a frown of concentration. "But the object, McCloskey what possible profit could there be in the theft of a locomotive that can neither be carried away nor converted into salable junk?"
It was ordered for one of the South American railroads, and was on its way to the Coast over the P. S-W. About the time it got as far as Copah, we happened to have a mix-up in our Copah yards, with a ditched engine that Gridley couldn't pick up with the 60-ton crane we had on the ground.
From what he said, I took it they were aimin' to go over into the desert to tear up the track and stop somebody or something coming this way from Copah all on account of that make-believe message that you didn't send." Thus far Judson's report had dealt with facts. But there were other things deducible.
It was in an upper room of the "Crow's Nest" head-quarters building that these two, the master-mechanic and the acting superintendent, met late in the evening of the day when Vice-President Ford had kept his appointment in Copah with Lidgerwood.
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