There will be work on the dam most of the winter, where the building is only a matter of stone and brush.

I can use all who want employment.

Then in the spring there will be the digging of the ditch on the mesa." "Five dollars for a man and his team, is it not so ?" the Mexican inquired.
"Yes." "What if a man's wife or children fall sick ?" the woman asked.
Bryant hid a smile at this shrewd bargaining.

Yet he was perceiving an opportunity.

There were no Mexicans at work on the project; one and all they had held off.