The Young Engineers in Colorado; Or, At Railroad Building in Earnest

by H. Irving Hancock

COLORADO; OR, AT RAILROAD BUILDING IN EARNEST ***

The Young Engineers in Colorado
or, At Railwood Building in Earnest

By H. Irving Hancock

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS
[I. The Cub Engineers Reach Camp]
[II. Bad Pete Becomes Worse]
[III. The Day of Real Work Dawns]
[IV. “Trying Out” the Gridley Boys]
[V. Tom Doesn’t Mind “Artillery”]
[VI. The Bite from the Bush]
[VII. What a Squaw Knew]
[VIII. ’Gene Black, Trouble-Maker]
[IX. “Doctored” Field Notes?]
[X. Things Begin to go Down Hill]
[XI. The Chief Totters from Command]
[XII. From Cub to Acting Chief]
[XIII. Black Turns Other Colors]
[XIV. Bad Pete Mixes in Some]
[XV. Black’s Plot Opens With a Bang]
[XVI. Shut Off from the World]
[XVII. The Real Attack Begins]
[XVIII. When the Camp Grew Warm]
[XIX. Sheriff Grease Drops Dave]
[XX. Mr. Newnham Drops a Bomb]
[XXI. The Trap at the Finish]
[XXII. “Can Your Road Save Its Charter Now?”]
[XXIII. Black’s Trump Card]
[XXIV. Conclusion]

CHAPTER I
THE CUB ENGINEERS REACH CAMP

“Look, Tom! There is a real westerner!” Harry Hazelton’s eyes sparkled, his whole manner was one of intense interest.

“Eh?” queried Tom Reade, turning around from his distant view of a sharp, towering peak of the Rockies.

“There’s the real thing in the way of a westerner,” Harry Hazelton insisted in a voice in which there was some awe.

“I don’t believe he is,” retorted Tom skeptically.