noon
He felt that now nothing could tire him in body or in mind , nothing drive from his heart his glorious conviction of success to come . And yet he had no faintest idea how busy the day was to be . When two hours had passed and the wagons carrying three hundred men had started for the Valley , Conniston had the two hundred and fifty men at Deep Creek working with a swiftness , an effectiveness which would have told a chance observer that they had been familiar many days with the work . He was to leave them before noon , to hurry on horseback to overtake the wagons that he might personally oversee the arrangements to be made upon their coming into the Valley . And there was much to be done , many specific orders to give the Lark , before he dared leave . Upon the dam itself he put a hundred men to work . The remaining hundred and fifty he set to building the great flume which was to carry the stored water for five hundred yards along the ridge , then into the cut in the crest of the ridge and into Dam Number Two .