"The other thing will be the hiring of men to do the work at the Queen, now, the other mine, we really haven't done much about that one, a bit farther out." Speed said, "I mean, we will get to it, but the Queen, up against the Evergreen property, is my main concern."

"That and she's the closest right? Best take care of the one we can get to the easiest. Now throw in the Evergreen and our popularity with old Elias, well, I can see a problem or two with that." Pronto agreed, knowing that trouble could start any time with Steelgrave that close. "I'm thinking, we'll not really be able to continue enforcing the law for long with what we have at stake here."

"That thought had crossed my mind more than once. Hard to be there and here too. I mean, if either place would require both of us at the same time, even with Charlie, we'd be in a pickle. This simple doesn't look too good when you think about it." Was Speed's reply. "Not a pleasant prosperct.

"Maybe, this Thorton fella'll take on runnin' it for us," Pike offered, "We get the right men up there working with him, and that could free us up for what we need to do here in town. I really don't care to give this up, just yet anyway."

"Me neither, but, at the moment, it looks like we're it." Speed replied, "Seeing that no one ran against us at the election, it's ours to do." He paused momentarily, "You know, I believe that Ty would stay on, and the job doesn't require him to be a miner, just run the place for us. We'll have a man who can handle the miners as mine foreman which would be a must while Ty would be the Mine superintendent."

"Yeah, that would certainly work in our favor, my guess being with the railroad coming we might get us some deputies, but won't be no one that'd want our jobs, that's the God's honest!" Pike stated. Looking up at the big Ingraham clock on the wall and then checking his pocket watch against it he smiled, well, time for rounds." With that he rose and steeped out the door of the office down the short hall and out o the street, taking it all in. It was where he wanted to be if not on the Rockin' G.