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- Hello. Barney.
- Hello. Nils.
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How you doing?
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- Hello. Mr. Hewitt.
- Hello. Barney.
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- How are you?
- Hello. Swan.
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Hear that saw?
Sounds good. Doesn't it? All your logs.
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Every stick and 11 days
ahead of schedule.
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You ought to have made it quicker
with all the high water.
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Mr. Hewitt. Nobody
ever make such big drive.
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- And in such time? Not even you.
- Well. Who said I did?
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It's all right.
Good work. Barney.
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- You got a bonus coming.
- Yeah? I've earned it.
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- Say. Mr. Hewitt. I got an idea.
- You have?
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Yeah.
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Did you read where the Congress
may pass a law giving the railroads
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every other section of land
along any right-of-way they build?
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What's that got to do with me?
I'm not in the railroad business.
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I know. But what's
to prevent us from shoo-flying
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a hundred miles of rail through
that government timber up north
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and grabbing all the pine
we'll ever need at $1.000 a mile?
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What good will it do
if I only get every other section?
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How about putting lumberjacks
on the sections you don't own.
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Pay them $25 a month and board.
And homestead it?
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After they've proven up.
Have them deed it back to me.
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- No?
- Back to us.
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You got a nerve.
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It'll be the biggest deal ever pulled.
What do you say?
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- That ain't honest. That's stealing.
- It's legal. All within the law.
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Barney. That's stealing.
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Who wouldn't pick up
a million dollars
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laying at their feet yelling.
"Come and get it"?
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- I know. But...
- What do you say. Mr. Hewitt?