Show GIV HIM A CHANCE Colonel Murray Deep Creek Is Motirg lOP to f 5t vrvzisned More Than Any Other Impecunious Promoter ot Wind ba Enterprises Colonel Murray is true grit He is one of the nerviest men In the town Ho started out to build a road to Deep Creek after millionaires had become discouraged dis-couraged In tho face of a tight money market that drove all the city banners to curtail their outside Investments that they might reap the harvest of a high rate of Interest Colonel Col-onel Murray put his hand down Into his trousers pocket and started his surveyors on to Deep Creek and he is keeping them there at his own expense And nIl he gets for bis pains is to get up in the morning and read an editorial denouncing t de-nouncing him as an impecunious promoter of windbag enterprises and this by 0 newspaper which onlv n fnw mnnth nrnv ious < championed the giving away tho Old Fort property to the sumo scheme These were the thoughts which a HERALD rpporter read as running through the brain of Colonel Murray when be met him on BrScbam street yesterday morning The public is an ungrateful dog said the news man with an aim for an interview inter-view viewho The colonel bit hIs lip and thoEsfe volumes but kept his composure After thinking over what it was prudent for a railway promoter to say under the circumstances he remarked Yes it is a little discouraging but we mustnt mind small things when we have big projects on hand I have the satisfaction to know thaI tha-I else have accomplished mora than any onq Are your surveyors still in the field Yes they have been occupied the last few days in trimming the line at Stockton and after this is dono they will move off the desert and on into Nevada Tho line la now surveyed 114 miles from thecity The trouble with you colonel ventured the porter is that you do not keep the public posted as to what you arc doing Thats what 1 banker tcld mo the other day Ho said I ought to show my hand tll him where I was going to got the money J Well I guess not tho colonel gesticulated gesticu-lated in fine sarcasm I would bo just like him to show me his books he continued con-tinued and inform mo where ho got his money and how much he had of it and how much it would take to break his bank You tcld him thal I V What reply did he moke ertyHow lOb he said railroads are public prop How did you answer that I told him that my road until it was built was just as private as his own business busi-ness that it hadnt cost him a cent You are having a hard fight all along apollo the reporter patronizingly I had to fight the public and fight tho railroads and now 1 have to fight the press Of course Ill let the press alone It would keep me too busy anti they would have the belt of it In the end The reporter wished tho colonel success in petting tho money to build the road that ho might baffle his enemies Get it get it exclaimed the colonel why I wish I was as sure of the kingdom of heaven as I am of that |