Carbonate this way over the rails of the C. G. R. on a joint track
agreement which either line may terminate by giving six months'
notice of its intention to the other. Got that?"

"To have and to hold," said Adams. "Go on."

"Well, on the first day of September the C. G. R. people gave the
Utah management notice to quit."

"They are bloated monopolists," said Adams sententiously. "Still I
don't see why there should be any scrapping over the line in Quartz
Creek Canyon."

"No? You are not up in monopolistic methods. In six months from
September first the Utah people will be shut out of Carbonate
business, which is all that keeps that part of their line alive.
If they want a share of that traffic after March first, they will
have to have a road of their own to carry it over."

"Precisely," said Adams, stifling a yawn. "They are building one,
aren't they?"

"Trying to," Winton amended. "But, unfortunately, the only practicable
route through the mountains is up Quartz Creek Canyon, and the canyon
is already occupied by a branch line of the Colorado and Grand River."

"Still I don't see why there should be any scrap."

"Don't you? If the Rajah's road can keep the new line out of Carbonate
till the six months have expired, it will have a monopoly of all the