The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1906, Page 1

i Gaate S JulS Ty ), & & 27 sgpriecet TN TD LT T LTIV 57, LW THE €ooL ]‘07;{}’5. TIE TV e~ ~———— # ago_when peonle * tHought ‘the little camp the ‘mining center of the re- ow; after he, had béen regularly taxes, and- hearing that the place annually grew smaller and deader. a minéral spring had been discovered on his land. It was a good thing that some- thing 'had been discovered there. The hopes of Foleys: had vanished sodén after he had come into possession of the tract. His orts to sell it had been unsuc ful. Some years ago—the last time he s up there—you couldn’t get people to e land near Foleys, short of giving it to thém. But a mineral spring was a very different matter. folence of their en As Kit Carsen bore him swiftly onward ph the wed' the idea of his new invest- rched forward next mo- with increasing enthusiasm. If the entire ‘train was in motion, spring was all they said it was, he would o advanse With bulld = hotel near it, and transform the P h beautiful unknown locality into a sum- its vertebrate mer resort There was an ideal situation néulating slowly to for a hotel,” where the land swept- up- e bells. ward into a sort' of natural terrace turning to e crested with enormous pines. Here the house would be built, and from its front plazza ‘guests rocking in shaker 'chafrs could look over miles of hills &nd wooded - canyons and far away on clear days could chaparral see the mother-of-pearl expanse of the ite foot gripping Sacramento Valley. s, a spattering few vears ago the plan would have ¢ there amid the n impossible. But now, with the rail- road climbing over the Sierra, it would be 1 unquestionably quite feasible to run a line of stages from a shert life for its Sacramento, or possibly Auburn would be still-had had s was May, the May of been realized. 1 ments of the ravine, once and, his mind the cur as th 1 his S5th year, who for women cr pleasur It was not arowsy lawyer who “atterided to Colonel ‘ Parrish’s business interests in Foleys/ as he expressed it,. let his cllent know there was a squatter—a married man ,With two children—on the - land, th “colonel’s reply had been, “let him squa And so the matter had rested. Now, when the colonel wanted to take waked > mifssed happines: his very arms then, had ght there forever. Then sudden- , gone, without warr s i i 4 it from bis & e ha 5 S B N7 S ST e : -3 A =Sz possession of his own, build his hotel and as ' he wad tried to fill the blankneéss she ha AL / idevelop his mineral spring, he had re- Jarting left, with business—a sorry, substitute! e : J . < “celved the Intelligence that the. squatier ping flash of the He had spent a good deal of time and : ~had refused to. .go—that, n fact. be thought over the matter of investing, and E 3 . claimed the land on a three and'a halt . had geen his fortune accumulating in a ; : — years' tenancy undisturbed by notice to 3 safe, gradual way. It would have been 4 ) leave and on varfous and sundry “im- : r Tuch Jarger thax it was if he could have : 3 4 : / provements” he had made. T e o et g g s From the cured himself of & tendency to give por- X 7 unattached ploneers, could not aspire ®w, It tock the colonel's breath away. “Parri ad hea! e emerged, caught tions of it away. But the colonel was a M Ao - ére .‘mu-elg possible for Comn‘u“lm-.mm clause in the lawyer's letter about . It sent a gush of painful -umn -o:‘ ploneer, and there were many pioneers - ! Parrish. ; @ the wife and children had induced him to “his heart, and‘for a space sat s who had succeeded befter than he in find« g But—hers came in the “but” which up- give his permission for the squatter to his flawless title, his ‘record of scrupu- with drdoped head. Why was mw ing happiness, i'not 5o well 1n saining / scis the Dest lald plans. At this point occupy his cottage. Having mo wife or ! lously paid taxes! “He wrote to the Foleys ‘world wide eaough for him &1d all who riches. .As_they had been successful in B the squatter had loomed up. " child of his own, he had a secret feeling lawyer as‘to what the “improvements” bore his name to pass one another told him the one way, he had tried to remedy s i The colonel_had hardly beleved in the “of friendliness to all men who, even In ' were, and‘ reéceived™the”reply. that' they ’out encoumfer! Golng on gdeficit in the other, and his fortune re- z squatter at His claims were 80 pre-' poverty and unsuccess, had tasted of this consisted in “a garden planted out and ' Ngw, as he rode on the last stage of Supposed mained at about the same comfortable 3 e had come shortly after supreme happiness. And he had let the. tended by thé squatter's daughters and a_his journéy, and over the hilitops saw tHe Toleys levei, despite his preoccupation in- tavest- . Betce st vialt siatty four years ago, man remain thers undisturbed through- ‘bit of vineyard land that the girls had 'smoke of the Foleys chimmeys, his mind e’ ¢ and had taken up his residence in the eut the three and a half years, had for- pruned and cuitivated into bearing con- had once again fallen on the squatter's This very trip was to sce about & new half-ruined cottage which had been bulilt gotten in fact, did not even know dition. There were repairs on the house, -name. Strange colncidence that after - . : one in which there werc great possibili- . - ‘mending the roof and tha porch, which twenty-one years his. name—a common e ties. e had & strip of Jand at Foleys, had demfih ';”" 7 3 t 3 n to be suddenly faced by tbe was falling down. Allen had made these one— should rise up uncomfortably im his d meke my ten dollars a back of the town, purchased fifteen years that ordinary mortals who : g g the - amazing insolence of the claim! He with - himself.” "+ path. He smiled bitterly fo hjmssif. Fate