five o'clock
But we wo n't spend this money that way . I guess we 'll let you decide what to do with it . '' Hour by hour the piles of cribbing dwindled , and on the elevator the distance from bin walls to post-tops grew shorter . Before five o'clock the last planks were spiked home on the walls and bins in the northwest corner . A few hours ' work in the morning would bring the rest of the house to the same level , and then work could commence on the distributing floor and on the frame of the cupola . Before the middle of the afternoon he had started two teams of horses dragging the cupola timbers , which had been cut ready for framing , to the foot of the hoist . By ten o'clock in the morning , Bannon figured , the engine would be lifting timbers instead of bundles of cribbing .