Fred Ransom, the other agent, is believed to be still in the employ of the Colthwaite Company's "gloom department." Mr.Hawkins is still in the employ of the A., G.& N.M.So are foremen Bell, Rivers and Mendoza.
Tim Griggs proved himself so thoroughly while foreman at the building of the new rail-road hotel in Paloma, that he has gone on to other and better work.

Griggs is now a prosperous man, and, best of all, he has his little daughter with him.
Lessee Carter has flourished in the new railroad hotel.

Rafe Bodson and Jeff Moore are his clerks.
The day came when Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton were able to apply the final and most severe test to the roadbed that ran across the Man-killer quicksand.

Their work was finished, and finished splendidly, adding another great triumph to their record as young engineers.
"These hot countries are fine, for a while," grunted Harry Hazelton, as the young engineers left Paloma in a special Pullman car that General Manager Ellsworth had sent for their use.
"They are fine, in fact; but one gets tired of working on a blistering desert.

I hope our next long undertaking will be in a country where ice grows as one of the natural fruits." "Greenland, for instance ?" smiled Tom Reade.
"Alaska, at all events," responded Harry hopefully.
"Do you know where I'm figuring on making my next stop ?" Tom inquired.
"Where ?" "In good old Gridley, the town where we were born, boy! I'm fairly aching for a sight of the good old town.