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diff --git a/old/30010.txt b/old/30010.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..649dd66 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/30010.txt @@ -0,0 +1,723 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Trees Are Where You Find Them, by Arthur Dekker Savage + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Trees Are Where You Find Them + +Author: Arthur Dekker Savage + +Illustrator: Philip Parsons + +Release Date: September 17, 2009 [EBook #30010] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TREES ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + _The trees on Mars are few and stunted, says old Doc Yoris. There's + plenty of gold, of course--but trees can be much more important!_ + + + TREES + _are where + you find + them_ + +By Arthur Dekker Savage + +Illustrated by Philip Parsons + + +You might say the trouble started at the Ivy, which is a moving picture +house in Cave Junction built like a big quonset. It's the only show in +these parts, and most of us old-timers up here in the timber country of +southwest Oregon have got into the habit of going to see a picture on +Saturday nights before we head for a tavern. + +But I don't think old Doc Yoris, who was there with Lew and Rusty and +me, had been to more than two or three shows in his life. Doc is kind of +sensitive about his appearance on account of his small eyes and big nose +and ears; and since gold mining gave way to logging and lumber mills, +with Outsiders drifting into the country, Doc has taken to staying on +his homestead away back up along Deer Creek, near the boundary of the +Siskiyou National Forest. It's gotten so he'll come to Cave Junction +only after dark, and even then he wears dark glasses so strangers won't +notice him too much. + +I couldn't see anything funny about the picture when Doc started +laughing, but I figure it's a man's own business when he wants to laugh, +so I didn't say anything. The show was one of these scientific things, +and when Doc began to cackle it was showing some men getting out of a +rocket ship on Mars and running over to look at some trees. + +Rusty, who's top choker setter in our logging outfit, was trying to see +Doc's point. He can snare logs with a hunk of steel cable faster than +anyone I know, but he's never had much schooling. He turned to Doc. "I +don't get it, Doc," he said. "What's the deal?" + +Doc kept chuckling. "It's them trees," he said. "There's no trees like +that on Mars." + +"Oh," said Rusty. + +I suppose it was just chance that Burt Holden was sitting behind us and +heard the talk. Burt is one of the newcomers. He'd come down from Grants +Pass and started a big lumber mill and logging outfit, and was trying to +freeze out the little operators. + +He growled something about keeping quiet. That got Rusty and Lew kind of +mad, and Lew turned around and looked at Burt. Lew is even bigger than +Burt, and things might have got interesting, but I wanted to see the +rest of the picture. I nudged him and asked him if he had a chew. They +won't let you smoke in the show, but it's okay to chew, and most of us +were in the habit anyway, because there's too much danger of forest fire +when you smoke on the job. + +Doc laughed every time the screen showed trees, and I could hear Burt +humping around in his seat like he was irritated. + + * * * * * + +At the end of the show we drifted over to the Owl Tavern and took a +table against the north wall, behind the pool tables and across from the +bar. Doc had put his dark glasses back on, and he sat facing the wall. + +Not that many people apart from the Insiders knew Doc. He hadn't been +very active since the young medical doctor had come to Cave Junction in +1948, although he never turned down anyone who came for help, and as far +as I knew he'd never lost a patient unless he was already dead when Doc +got there. + +We were kidding Lew because he was still wearing his tin hat and caulked +boots from work. "You figuring on starting early in the morning?" I +asked him. Rusty and Doc laughed. It was a good joke because we rode out +to the job in my jeep, and so we'd naturally get there at the same time. + +Then Rusty sat up straighter and looked over at the bar. "Hey," he said, +"Pop's talking to Burt Holden." Pop Johnson owns our outfit. He's one of +the small operators that guys like Burt are trying to squeeze out. + +"Hope he don't try to rook Pop into no deals," said Lew. + +Doc tipped up his bottle of beer. In Oregon they don't sell anything but +beer in the taverns. "Times change," he said. "Back in 1900 all they +wanted was gold. Now they're trying to take all the trees." + +"It's the big operators like Burt," I said. "Little guys like Pop can't +cut 'em as fast as they grow. The companies don't have to reseed, +either, except on National Forest land." + +"That Burt Holden was up to my place couple weeks ago," said Doc. "Darn +near caught me skinning out a deer." + +"He better not yap to the game warden," said Rusty. "Them laws is for +sports and Outsiders, not us guys who need the meat." + +"He wanted to buy all my timber," said Doc. "Offered me ten dollars a +thousand board feet, on the stump." + +"Don't sell," I advised him. "If Burt offers that much, almost anyone +else will pay twelve." + +Doc looked at me. "I'd never sell my trees. Not at any price. I got a +hundred and sixty acres of virgin stand, and that's the way it's gonna +stay. I cut up the windfalls and snags for firewood, and that's all." + +"Here comes Pop," said Lew. + +Pop sat down with us and had a beer. He looked worried. We didn't ask +him any questions, because we figure a man will talk if he wants to, and +if he doesn't it's his own business. + +He finally unlimbered. "Burt Holden wants to buy the mill," he said, +wiping his mouth on the back of his hand. + +"Buy _your_ mill?" said Lew. "Hell, his mill is five times as big, and +he's even got a burner to take care of slashings, so he don't have to +shut down in the fire season." + +"He just wants the land," said Pop, "because it's near the highway. He +wants to tear down my setup and build a pulp mill." + +"A _pulp_ mill!" If we could have seen Doc's eyes through the glasses I +imagine they'd have been popped open a full half inch. "Why, then +they'll be cutting down everything but the brush!" + +Pop nodded. "Yeah. Size of a log don't matter when you make paper--just +so it's wood." + +It seemed as though Doc was talking to himself. "They'll strip the land +down bare," he mumbled. "And the hills will wash away, and the chemicals +they use in the mill will kill the fish in the creeks and the Illinois +River." + +"That's why they won't let anyone start a pulp mill near Grants Pass," +said Pop. "Most of the town's money comes from sports who come up to the +Rogue River to fish." + +Rusty set his jaw. "In the winter we _need_ them fish," he said. He was +right, too. The woods close down in the winter, on account of the snow, +and if a man can't hunt and fish he's liable to get kind of hungry. That +rocking chair money doesn't stretch very far. + +"I ain't gonna sell," said Pop. "But that won't stop Burt Holden, and +any place he builds the mill around here will drain into the Illinois." + +Doc pushed back his chair and stood up to his full height of five foot +four. "I'm gonna talk to Burt Holden," he said. + +Rusty stood up to his six foot three. "I'll bring him over here, Doc," +he said. "We're handy to the cue rack here, and Lew and Simmons can keep +them guys he's with off my back." + +I stood up and shoved Rusty back down. I'm no taller than he is, but I +outweigh him about twenty pounds. I started working in the woods when we +still felled trees with axes and misery whips--crosscut saws to the +Outsiders. "I'll go get him," I said. "You're still mad about the show, +and you wouldn't be able to get him this far without mussing him up." + +"There won't be no trouble," said Doc. "I just want to make him an +offer." + + * * * * * + +I went over and told Burt that Doc wanted to talk to him. The three guys +with him followed us back to the table. + +Burt figured he knew what it was all about, and he just stood over Doc +and looked down on him. "If it's about your timber, Yoris," he said, +"I'll take it, but I can't pay you more than nine dollars now. Lumber's +coming down, and I'm taking a chance even at that." He rocked back and +forth on his heels and looked at Pop as though daring him to say +different. + +"I still don't want to sell, Mr. Holden," said Doc. "But I've got better +than three million feet on my place, and I'll _give_ it to you if you +won't put a pulp mill anywhere in the Illinois Valley." + +We were all floored at that, but Burt recovered first. He gave a nasty +laugh. "Not interested, Yoris. If you want to sell, look me up." + +"Wait!" said Doc. "A pulp mill will take every tree in the Valley. In a +few years--" + +"It'll make money, too," said Burt flatly. + +"Money ain't everything by a long shot. It won't buy trees and creeks +and rain." + +"It'll buy trees to make lumber." Burt was getting mad. "I don't want +any opposition from you, Yoris. I've had enough trouble from people who +try to hold back progress. If you don't like the way we run things here, +you can--hell, you can go back to Mars!" + +It seemed to me that it was just about time to start in. I could have +taken Burt easiest, but I knew Rusty would probably swing on him first +and get in my way, so I planned to work on the two guys on Burt's right, +leaving the one on his left for Lew. I didn't want Pop to get tangled up +in it. + +I don't generally wait too long after I make up my mind, but then I +noticed Rusty reaching out slowly for a cue stick, and I thought maybe +I'd better take Burt first, while Rusty got set. I never did see a guy +so one way about having something in his hands. + +But Doc didn't drop out. "There ain't nothing but a few scrub trees on +Mars," he said to Burt, looking him square in the eye. "And no creeks +and no rain." + +Burt curled his lip sarcastically. "The hell you say! Is that why you +didn't like it there?" You could see he was just trying to egg Doc into +saying he'd come from Mars, so he could give him the horse laugh. The +guys he was with were getting set for a fracas, but they were waiting +for Burt to lead off. + +Doc didn't get caught. "But there's gold," he said, like he hadn't heard +Burt at all. "Tons of it--laying all over the ground." + +I guess Burt decided to ride along. "Okay, Yoris," he said. "Tell you +what I'll do. For only one ton of Martian gold I'll agree to drop all +plans for a pulp mill, here or anywhere else. In fact, I'll get out of +business altogether." + +Doc moved in like a log falling out of the loading tongs. "That's a +deal," he said. "You ready to go?" + +Burt started to look disgusted, then he smiled. "Sure. Mars must be +quite a place if you came from there." + +"Okay," said Doc. "You just stand up against the wall, Mr. Holden." +Burt's smile faded. He figured Doc was trying to maneuver him into a +likely position for us. But Doc cleared that up quick. "You boys get up +and stand aside," he ordered. "Get back a ways and give Mr. Holden +plenty of room." We didn't like it, but we cleared out from around the +table. A bunch from the bar and pool tables, sensing something was up, +came drifting over to watch. I could feel tension building up. "Now," +said Doc, pointing, "you just stand right over there, Mr. Holden, and +fold your arms." + +Burt didn't like the audience, and I guess he figured his plans were +backfiring when Doc didn't bluff. "You hill-happy old coot," he +snarled. "You'd better go home and sleep it off!" I grabbed hold of +Lew's arm and shook my head at Rusty. I wasn't going to interfere with +Doc now. + +"You're not scared, are you, Mr. Holden?" said Doc quietly. "Just you +stand against the wall and take it easy. It won't hurt a bit." + + * * * * * + +Burt Holden was plenty tough for an Outsider, and a hard-headed +businessman to boot, but he'd never run into a customer like Doc before. +You could see him trying to make up his mind on how to handle this +thing. He glanced around quick at the crowd, and I could tell he decided +to play it out to where Doc would have to draw in his horns. He actually +grinned, for the effect it would have on everybody watching. "All right, +Yoris," he said. He backed against the wall and folded his arms. "But +hadn't you better stand up here with me?" + +"I ain't going," said Doc. "I don't like Mars. But you won't have no +trouble getting your gold. There's nuggets the size of your fist laying +all over the dry river beds." + +"I hate to be nosey," said Burt, playing to the crowd, "but how are you +going to get me there?" + +"With his head, o'course!" blurted Rusty before I could stop him. "Just +like he cures you when you're sick!" Doc had pulled Rusty through two or +three bad kid sicknesses--and a lot of the rest of us, too. + +"Yep," said Doc. "A man don't need one of them rocket things to get +between here and Mars. Fact is, I never seen one." + +Burt looked at the ceiling like he was a martyr, then back at Doc. +"Well, Yoris," he said in a tone that meant he was just about through +humoring him, "I'm waiting. Can you send me there or can't you?" The +start of a nasty smile was beginning to show at the corners of his +mouth. + +"Sure," said Doc. He slumped down in his chair and cupped his hands +lightly around his dark glasses. I noticed his fingers trembling a +little against his forehead. + +The lights dimmed, flickered and went out, and we waited for the +bartender to put in a new fuse. The power around here doesn't go haywire +except in the winter, when trees fall across the lines. A small fight +started over in a corner. + +When the lights came back on, Doc and Pop started for the door, and Lew +and Rusty and I followed. Burt's buddies were looking kind of puzzled, +and a few old-timers were moving over to watch the fight. The rest were +heading back to the bar. + +Rusty piled into the jeep with Doc and me. "When you going to bring him +back, Doc?" he asked when we started moving. + +"Dunno," said Doc. He took off his glasses to watch me shift gears. He's +been after me for a long time to teach him how to drive. "It only works +on a man once." + + +THE END + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _If Worlds of Science Fiction_ November + 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. 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