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Heard the news?" "No." "Curtis Gordon has bought the McDermott outfit in Kyak." "That tells me nothing. Who is McDermott?" "He's a shoe-stringer. He had a wildcat plan to build a railroad from Kyak to the coal-fields, but he never got farther than a row of alder stakes and a book of press clippings." "Does that mean that Gordon abandons his Hope route?" "Yep!
They began to build a road from Cortez, when some 'shoe-stringer' raised the cry that they had monopolized the world's greatest copper supply, and had double-cinched it by monopolizing transportation also. That started the fuss. They needed cheap coal, of course, just as everybody else needs it; but somebody discovered the danger of a monopoly of that and set up another shout.
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