You have seen what has happened down Washington and Oregon way, and we don't any of us want it here in Canada.

When the good time came was it the man who'd put in his twelve hours daily with the axe and crosscut who got the dollars, or the one who lived soft in the cities ?" There was a little growl from several among the assembly, for most of those who sat there realized that it was usually the mortgage broker and speculator who reaped where the toilers with axe and saw had sown.
"There'll have to be laws made to hold them fellows' grip off the poor man." said somebody.
Alton laughed a little.

"Well," he said dryly, "it seems to me that the poor man should do a little of the holding off himself.

Now I want you to listen carefully.

Within twelve months you'll see a new wagon-road cut south towards the big river, and inside two years the surveyors running the line for a new railroad into the Somasco valley." The men stared at the speaker, and there was a murmur, almost of doubt, and wonder.