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Death Valley Chuck-Walla
Tom Lawson is Coming
Tom Lawson is. coming to Greenwater.
The Chuck-Walla has this
gladsome information straight from
Lawson's latest novel, and those who
have beeji wondering why the Copper
King and literary genius from Boston
has; been so tardy in visiting the new
land of copper need perturb themselves no more. We
are told that he has his men on the Amargosa desert even
now building a road to Greenwater, over which he can
run his automo. It's a cinch that Tom is a game sport
and has all other copper kings backed up against the
Funeral range. When Tom makes his entry in Greenwater
it will be a gala day for every lizard from Amargosa
to Death Valley, for the. most versatile of copper
kings will come like a real king. His automo will be emblazoned
with a coat of arms, while from every tent
saloon along the way will dangle a piece of gaudy bunting.
We hope when Tom crosses the Amargosa desert for the
first time his trip will not be marred by some fickle freak
of Death Valley weather, for the Chuck-Walla is hoping
for much good from this visit and is therefore solicitous
that Tom's impressions of this land be of the best.
The Chuck-Walla has learned another good piece of
news about Tom. He has acquired, we are told on the low
down, a controlling interest in the Saratoga mine and in
the Red Boy group. This is good news. We don't know
of anyone that we would rather see in control of these
properties, and since Tom could not get to Greenwater in
time to get in on the ground floor for some of the good
things picked up by Charles Schwab, Patsy Clark or August
Heinze, it is nevertheless reassuring to learn that he
got in as well as he did. We presume he might have
done better had he been as impetuous as these copper pals
of his; had he been less dignified and taken less trouble
and time in building his own road. Had he been content
to do like Schwat) and ride over the stones and chuckholes
through Death Valley, there is no doubt at all that
the man from Boston would have skimmed a little of the
cream from Greenwater with the best of them, but it's
every man to his taste and Tom wanted his own road to
Greenwater before he attempted to reach that pearl of the
desert. And now the ladies from Bullfrog to China
Ranch are wondering whether Tom will be decorated with
one of his famous carnations or wear in his belt a papiere
machete scalp of the Standard oil bunch.
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