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Show "TROUBLE MAN" RESOURCEFUL. Billy Proctor, the emergency man of the Colorado Telephone company. Is a good example of the trouble hunter. He boars the reputa'ion of having alway gotten what he fatartel after; and not only does he take the menage to Garcia, but he hurrh-6 back for another the thing Is a habit with him. Like most thoroughbred hunters. Bill Is a great walker. On the last of a three-day trip he once made through the mountains to Denver, Den-ver, In an effort to protect his home-stead home-stead from contest, he covered sixty-six sixty-six miles over the Continental divide In twenty-two hours, and then went to a dance In the evening. He Is a llttlfl man. but he has one of those Jaws that Is the feature of a face. The fact that he would take the stages out through the snows after other men had abandoned them wa what brought him to the attention of the telephone company. List winter the Donver wire chief told him that two men who had tried to "shoot" some trouble from the farther far-ther end of the Steamboat toll line had given It up, and had been found snow blind and snow bound In a cabin burning old bedsteads to keep warm. "I'll get it," said Bit!. Getting It meant a railroad trip over the divide to the rail head, then a morning's dickering for a team and sled. No one wanted moke a trip which they considered Impossible. But Bill hired a mule from one man. a horse from another, tho sled and harness har-ness from a third, and persuaded man number four to drive him through tho drifts, a plunelnsr twelve miles on his way. With a flfty-four-pound coll of wire, two skis, a test set and his climbing Irons on his back, BUI pushed push-ed ahead on snow shoes to Whldeley's park, whero he spent the night, and got a guide and Irapper to accompany him. That next day's trip was made on skis eighteen miles over the Rabbit Rab-bit Kars runrre to the trouble testing back to Denver whenever the line showed above the snow; and for a half mile at a time, twenty-one-foot poles would be entirely covered. When he had "gottenlt" and found the wire clear both ways Bill and his guide. Charley. Btarted back. Allen Tupper True, In Rcrlbner's. |