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Magazines and newspapers had hammered it home to readers that the Guttenchild and allied interests were engaged in a big steal from the people of coal, timber, and power-site lands to the value of more than a hundred million dollars. The trouble had originated in a department row, but it had spread until the Macdonald claims had become a party issue.
Dill was delighted when he learned this fortunate circumstance, for it enabled him to make a trip to the river for the purpose, as he elaborately explained, of "looking out a power-site, and the best route to string the wires." While he was gone, properties to the value of half a million in the aggregate changed hands but no cash.
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