I'm likely to become a disturbing factor up there." "That's what we want you to become," said Barkley.

"We know there're a lot of good mining claims in there, especially the coal lands on the east side of the valley.

It isn't the freight and passenger traffic that we're after--we want to get hold of those mines.

Why, the inside gang of the Southern Pacific--you'll keep this a professional secret, of course--has told us that they'll take coal from us for their whole system west of Houston.

In a couple of years there'll be a town there of eight or ten thousand people.