St Nicholas [serial] . ourse, what is done will be no loss—unlessthe Stanislau Company gets through a surveyof the canon before we can do it over again. And is the whole business a loss, Father,unless we can get through first? Virtually, yes. There s room for but oneline along the river and we had that secured,as I supposed—until my book of field-notes dis-appeared. But there are our stakes along the canonroute; I should think that was enough to estab-lish a prior claim. Enough to indicate a prior claim, not to es-tablish it. In order to do that I must be ableto show a map of the route. I ve b
St Nicholas [serial] . ourse, what is done will be no loss—unlessthe Stanislau Company gets through a surveyof the canon before we can do it over again. And is the whole business a loss, Father,unless we can get through first? Virtually, yes. There s room for but oneline along the river and we had that secured,as I supposed—until my book of field-notes dis-appeared. But there are our stakes along the canonroute; I should think that was enough to estab-lish a prior claim. Enough to indicate a prior claim, not to es-tablish it. In order to do that I must be ableto show a map of the route. I ve bent all myenergies to getting the preparatory work done,leaving the mapping until that was secure. TheStanislau Company have been pushing us hard,but they were hopelessly behind when it came tothe canon, and, if you remember, their engi-neering force gave up trying to get a routethrough there when they found the only feasibleone taken. But they have been watching us asa cat does a mouse, that I know, and they 11 64. ?% pll i . KLAMATH JOE MAKES A CAPTURE, (see page 69.) 65 66 KLAMATH JOES CAPTIVE [Mc not let the grass grow under their feet when itcomes to snapping up that route if we fail in anyway to comply with all that the law requires. Ourconstruction gang ought to be at work therenow, but they ve only the stakes to go is down there at the end of the canonwith teams and men; he can begin work, but thechief engineer of the Stanislau has a right toknow, and will probably ask, what he purposesdoing. Willard will, naturally, refer him to me,and—I ve nothing to prove my survey. Thenotes that went with that little red book cov-ered, practically, all of the canon work. It s abad business. It s quite liable to render all ofour work on this survey of no avail. I shallkeep on trying, however. We will stay here untilto-morrow; if nothing turns up by that time, wewill have to go back and make a re-survey of thecanon. I knew when Father said if nothin
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